On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 06:34:14PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: > In perl.git, the branch blead has been updated > > <http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/fbcaf61123069fe46010699dd41ca5f60f448361?hp=603928ea21886dfb891e73164afc6b81c2793547> > > - Log ----------------------------------------------------------------- > commit fbcaf61123069fe46010699dd41ca5f60f448361 > Author: Nicholas Clark <n...@ccl4.org> > Date: Sun Nov 28 17:15:58 2010 +0000 > > Generate perlmain.c using ExtUtils::Miniperl, instead of writemain.SH. > > This allows writemain.SH to be removed. This also has the side effect of > testing > that ExtUtils::Miniperl actually works. :-) > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Summary of changes: > MANIFEST | 1 - > Makefile.SH | 8 ++-- > Porting/exec-bit.txt | 1 - > pod/perlhack.pod | 2 +-
> diff --git a/Makefile.SH b/Makefile.SH > index 557f4f8..5315793 100755 > --- a/Makefile.SH > +++ b/Makefile.SH The important bit: > -perlmain.c: miniperlmain.c config.sh $(FIRSTMAKEFILE) > - sh writemain $(DYNALOADER) $(static_ext) > perlmain.c > +perlmain.c: $(MINIPERL_EXE) lib/ExtUtils/Miniperl.pm > + $(MINIPERL) -Ilib -MExtUtils::Miniperl -e 'writemain(@ARGV)' DynaLoader > $(static_ext) > perlmain.c > > perlmain$(OBJ_EXT): perlmain.c > $(CCCMD) $(PLDLFLAGS) $*.c Previously *nix was using a shell script writemain to generate perlmain.c from miniperlmain.c and the list of extensions. However, that functionality is duplicated in lib/ExtUtils/Miniperl.pm, generated by minimod.pl vms/writemain.pl also duplicates this functionality. The comment in it about "create a linker options file" seems to be spurious - as best I can tell it never did. (The comment was added in 5.001, but not the functionality) Can vms/writemain.pl go the way of writemain.SH, and be replaced with a call to ExtUtils::Miniperl ? (This would mean that VMS is using more of the same code as everyone else, which makes maintenance easier) Nicholas Clark
