At 10:13 AM -0800 3/17/02, Brent Dax wrote:
># Probing Perl 5's configuration to determine which headers you
># have (this could
># take a while on slow machines)...
># Out of memory!
># %SYSTEM-F-ABORT, abort
>
>Lines in question:
>
>
>foreach(grep {/^i_/} keys %Config) {
>     $c{$_}=$Config{$_};
>     $c{headers}.=defineifdef((/^i_(.*)$/));
>}
>
>I think VMS is too lame to handle the grep line.

No, it's not. Perl works fine on VMS, just as it does on dozens of 
other platforms. If that code's throwing a fit, then either perl 
itself is broken, or the configure script is broken.

Likely the error is someplace else.

>Honestly, I'd rather not change it to bow to a retarded OS

I think, perhaps, that namecalling at software would best be saved 
for other places.
-- 
                                         Dan

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