Extension building against an installed Perl on VMS is broken in 5.8.0 due to a couple of header files missing from the architecture-specific core library directory. Specifically, fakethr.h and perlsfio.h are listed in MakeMaker's perldepend section (and thus must be present whether the extension needs them or not) but they were not being copied to the correct location during installation. For a threaded build, reentr.h is also required for extension building but was not being installed. The attached patch fixes these issues and corrects a couple of other typos in vms/descrip_mms.template.
In lieu of the patch, folks can either build extensions against an uninstalled Perl or simply copy the missing files manually. -- ________________________________________ Craig A. Berry mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] "... getting out of a sonnet is much more difficult than getting in." Brad Leithauser
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