Re: VMS, configure.com and nonxs_ext
"Craig A. Berry" <[email protected]>
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On Sep 8, 2009, at 4:33 AM, Nicholas Clark wrote: > On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 05:15:51PM -0500, Craig A. Berry wrote: >> >> >> There's also dynamic_ext, right? Shouldn't dynamic_ext plus >> nonxs_extensions equal known_extensions? > > Well, probably it should, but what actually happens is: > "extensions" is everything. > > "known_extensions" = "static_ext" + "dynamic_ext" > "extensions" = "nonxs_ext" + "known_extensions" > > > which isn't logical, but I suspect is due to something historical. > I think that's about what I sorted out by reading Porting/Glossary, which does say that known_extensions only includes the XS kind (which is definitely not what we were doing on VMS before). As you've likely noticed, I think it's done: http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/d1ce36d Hmm. Actually, we're not including "nonxs_ext" in "extensions" but that should be easy to fix and may not have any impact on the build. ________________________________________ Craig A. Berry mailto:[email protected] "... getting out of a sonnet is much more difficult than getting in." Brad Leithauser