bdeck

Hi,

just for info:
I downloaded the perl sources and was able to incorperate DXE support simply
by answering the questions:
extension: dxe
command: dxe3gen -U
.... and so forth.

Of course, perlmain must be linked directly with the export list object that
will resolve all the undefines in the DXEs. Some of the DXEs that were able
to be built wer GDBM and DB... tests run fine (except a hang in running
comp/colon.t).

BTW, why is symlink support turned off by default?

Regards,
Ben

richard dawe

Hello.

Because the source packages were made for Perl built against DJGPP 2.03.

Bye, Rich =]

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Richard Dawe [ http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~phekda/richdawe/ ]

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bdeck

So, has the 2.04 alpha distribution reconfigured its perl to take advantage
of these new DJGPP features?


Ben

andrew cottrell

Download it and check. I have no idea, I used the option where Perl
auto selected the values.

Andrew

bdeck

If you use djgpp/configure.bat, it will prompt you for options you wish to
configure in perl. The only aspect is that incorperating DXE support changes
the runtime library a bit, and the distribution will have to be set up
properly using 'make perl install'.

If you simply went with defaults, then niether symlink or DXE support has
been incorperated. When building DXE support, it is very important to link
the DXE export list object directly with the perlmain file (the Makefile
must be modified).

Ben