On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, Craig Berry wrote: > > On Monday, January 31, 2005, John E. Malmberg wrote: > > >The configure tests for largefile support is based on if the integer type > >is native 64 bits. > > I believe 64-bit integers and large file support now work correctly > (and independently) in bleadperl and those changes should make it > into 5.8.7.
Unfortunately you did not implement the not very well documented but present lstat() routine which is about to start returning something different than stat(). It looks like I need to copy how stat() was done for lstat(). Also affecting this is now with 64 bit OpenVMS 8.2, there is a new struct stat that is incompatible with either struct mystat flavor in perl. It also removes most of the hacks that perl was doing to fill out the mystat structure. > > > >If largefile support is to be present, then the resulting config.h needs > >to have a #define _LARGEFILE 1 in it. > > I think I tried that, but that's too late. The CRTL headers that need to > see _LARGEFILE get included before config.h, so it had to be added on the > command line via /DEFINE=_LARGEFILE. Why not just #include "config.h" before including the other headers? It does not appear to do any harm to including it twice at a quick glance. > >Is there an easy solution to this? > > No, it wasn't easy, but the good new is "wasn't" is past tense. It was > easier to port Perl to Itanium than it was to make it recognize and > support the large file capabilities in the CRTL, but it's done and > working as far as I know. Unless you want to take advantage of the new standard compliant stat() routines for 64 bit OpenVMS 8.2 to optimize the code. -John [EMAIL PROTECTED] Personal Opinion Only
