Re: BASH 4.2.39 available for OpenVMS.

On Dec 16, 2012, at 10:12 AM, John E. Malmberg <[email protected]> wrote:

> Bash 4.2.39 is the current release and patch level of the GNU bash project and is now available for OpenVMS.

Thanks very much John, and congratulations.  This has been sorely needed for a very long time and I know you've put a lot of work into it.

> Items of specific interest to the to the VMS Perl community are:
> 
> Recent versions of Perl will go into a UNIX mode when run under Bash 4.2.39.  

Yes, basically several pertinent CRTL features will be set.  See <http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/blob/HEAD:/vms/vms.c#l14004>, though that line number will change as development continues.

> I have not yet attempted to run the Perl configure script under Bash 4.2.39.


That would be a pretty major undertaking.  While it's a tantalizing prospect to think we could eventually avoid maintaining the 7000+ lines of configure.com and just use the Configure shell script, it's a long ways from happening and might not be the best way to spend scarce resources.
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