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"Andrew Cottrell" <spam AT bigpond DOT com DOT au> wrote in message
news:kfm0tvsr12pmee5c4imnh1ea17sjdi0gr4 AT 4ax DOT com...
> >> > BTW, why is symlink support turned off by default?
> >>
> >> Because the source packages were made for Perl built against DJGPP
2.03.
> >
> >So, has the 2.04 alpha distribution reconfigured its perl to take
advantage
> >of these new DJGPP features?
> Download it and check. I have no idea, I used the option where Perl
> auto selected the values.

If you use djgpp/configure.bat, it will prompt you for options you wish to
configure in perl. The only aspect is that incorperating DXE support changes
the runtime library a bit, and the distribution will have to be set up
properly using 'make perl install'.

If you simply went with defaults, then niether symlink or DXE support has
been incorperated. When building DXE support, it is very important to link
the DXE export list object directly with the perlmain file (the Makefile
must be modified).

Ben