Re: VMS, configure.com and nonxs_ext

On Tue, 08 Sep 2009 06:47:38 -0500, "Craig A. Berry"
<[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> 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,

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> 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.

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