"John E. Malmberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 04/02/2008 11:53:13 PM:

> No, the configuration is looking specifically for libcurl.  I am sure 
> that I saw a report on openvms.org or comp.os.vms that someone has 
> ported it to VMS.  What I do not know is if it was done in a way that a 
> GNV build environment can easily use.
> 
> The configuration is apparently just disabling some features when it 
> does not find libcurl.
> 
> I would expect that libcurl is needed for http:/ftp: access to a 
> repository, which is something that we probably need for Perl.

We use libcurl here but we do not use it in a GNV environment.

I have not looked at git, but most of those things (ported from *nix) 
just want to find header files and .so files and can often be 
altered to be happy with a .exe or logical name and a path 
to the .h files on VMS.

Peter Prymmer

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