Re: VMS, configure.com and nonxs_ext

"Craig A. Berry" <[email protected]> Tue, 08 Sep 2009 06:50:37 -0500

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On Sep 8, 2009, at 4:34 AM, Nicholas Clark wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 08:55:29PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote:
>
>> (I'm not sure why the Configure shell code contains tests for .c  
>> too -
>> historical reasons?
>
> No, recent reasons. Building Win32CORE on Cygwin:
> http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commit/fefb2940d28bc57fa38371e2
>

I thought I had seen something about it recently.  I could make our  
extension hunter look for .c as well, bu what I ended up doing was  
pulling Win32CORE out of nonxs_ext explicitly because it won't run on  
VMS anyway.

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