On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, "Craig A. Berry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >At 9:25 PM +0000 3/17/03, Doc.Cypher wrote:
>I was under the impression that all the Perl newsgroups were >read-only and the mailing lists required a subscription to post. >I've never given it much thought, though. I subscribed to VMS Perl because of that restriction. >Well, we could write to the list owner and ask him, but I can't think >of when this has ever come up before in five years of following both >groups. I've got a fix in progress and I'll be sure to post it to >c.o.v as well. I need to apply the C RTL patch to my hobbyist system >first, so stand by. I don't think there are that many people who could figure out how to try and post to the list and a newsgroup at the same time. I'm sure I could circumvent this restriction if I really wanted to. :) >>On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Craig A Berry wrote (on the VMS Perl mailing list): >>I hit the same problem with 5.8.0 following this ECO application. It >>probably impacts the 5.6.0 and 5.6.1 build too. > >Yes, the poll() replacement has been there for ages in the IO >extension, so I expect it will collide with the new system-supplied >one on any version of Perl. I have applied the supplied patch and am currently running the make stage. I'll let you know how things go. If it would be any help I can give you an account on the system with access to the Perl directories. I can spare enough space to keep two versions available and have a third in test. >There are a variety of ways to stay up to date, the most >authoritative being to use rsync, which unfortunately, as far as I >know, is not available for VMS. This is covered in the perlhack >documentation at ><http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.8.0/pod/perlhack.html#Keeping-in-sync> >(or via "perldoc perlhack" on a system with Perl installed). > >There are a number of ways to track what's going on via the Perl >Repository Browser at ><http://public.activestate.com/cgi-bin/perlbrowse>. Thanks, I'll take a look at these sites. Doc. -- The bigger the humbug, the better people will like it. ~ Phineas Taylor Barnum. https://vmsbox.cjb.net
