On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 10:05:27AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Greetings, > > I should point out that in order to get perl@15489 to build I had > to patch ext/Encode/Encode.xs but I have reason to believe
Ummm, care to tell how did you have to patch Encode.xs so that we can verify that the right patch is in? > that the correct fix will be put in soon - hopefully before release > of 5.8.0. > [snip] > The last error message is a VMS make utility fatal error, > which points up the fact that the hack to force the "all" target via: > > http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2002-03/msg01168.html > > did not actually solve the target ordering bug - it merely enshrined it > in code. As it stands the perl@15489 kit will have to document > for VMS perl administrators that they must now build modules via: > > perl Makefile.PL > mms all > mms test > mms install > > Since the "all" target is now required so as to avoid the fatal MMS error. Sooo... do you have suggestions of how to unenshrine the bug? Or is the change really something VMSers have to live with? -- $jhi++; # http://www.iki.fi/jhi/ # There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'. # It is 'dead'. -- Jack Cohen
