Re: lang/perl5 on VAX wants NaNs and infinities

Jan-Benedict Glaw <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.vax
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi!

On Wed, 2025-01-01 19:26:09 +0000, John Klos <[email protected]> wrote:
> > With the following patch, Perl 5.40 successfully built (though I
> > didn't play with the Perl interpreter as I'm by no means a Perl guy):
> > 
> > # cat ${LOCALPATCHES}/lang/perl5/patch-infnan
> > --- builtin.c~jb        2024-12-31 11:11:52.361258111 +0000
> > +++ builtin.c   2024-12-31 11:14:00.911496537 +0000
> 
> > With that, we can start guarding these pieces with d_double_style_vax,
> > d_double_has_inf and d_double_has_nan. But maybe somebody else should
> > work on that? Did anybody already open a bug report upstream? I'd like
> > to not open multiple tickets, that won't help at all I guess...
> 
> I've built perl, too, with similar changes, so that package building can
> continue:
> 
> https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/vax/10.0_2024Q4/All/perl-5.40.0nb1.tgz

Is that possibly a patch that could go into pkgsrc for the meantime?

> However, I haven't filed an upstream ticket.

Did that a minute ago:

https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/22882

MfG, JBG

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