Re: lang/perl5 on VAX wants NaNs and infinities
Jan-Benedict Glaw <[email protected]>
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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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