Jeremy Begg wrote:
Hello John,
This patch adds the ability to build Perl on 64 bit VMS V8.2 with
support for hard links, and the newer CRTL features.
For which version(s) of Perl is this suitable? 5.8.7 is the latest "stable"
release; can the patch be used with that?
I have not run that patch against 5.8.7, but the initial work that I did
was on the 5.8.6 release. I just needed blead stable enough so that I
could start merging in the changes with out the risk of breaking more
things.
For hard link support, the Perl build procedure needs hard links enabled
on the build disk, and there is an additional patch that has previously
been applied to blead similar to the one to s2p.pl.
If you need any of the stuff for before OpenVMS 8.2, follow the comments
in Configure.com. In most cases it is just a matter of enabling them
for the version of VMS they appeared in, and then testing the edits to
make sure that the configure and build runs correctly. And then
submitting the fixes back here.
-John
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