"Craig A. Berry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 12/18/2003 07:19:43 PM:
> Earlier today HP released the OpenVMS v8.1 evaluation kit. This is the
> second early adopter's kit of VMS on Itanium but the first one to
> include native compilers. I'm pleased to say that with the attached
> patch to bleadperl, Perl has already assimilated this new platform.
>
> There were no code changes necessary and really just some minor
> configuration tweaks. The only moderately interesting one was that we
> can't use our home-grown signal() implementation by default, at least
> not until I look more closely at why it doesn't work on Itanium.
>
> I've tested the patch on Alpha to make sure it does no harm there. I
> have no VAXen to test with but have tried to be careful about leaving
> all existing support in place.
An impressively small patch. It looks good.
By the way pod/perlport.pod (er, I mean [.POD]PERLPORT.POD;1 of course :-)
mentions the "VMS_VAX" vs. "VMS_AXP" archname strings and might be
in need of some modification to incorporate the new port to "VMS_IA64".
Congratulations.
Peter Prymmer
