On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 08:20:23PM -0500, Douglas Meade wrote:
> I tried to compile Perl5-base from the pkgsrc collection, and it finally
> quit saying "unable to find /usr/include/machine/ieeefp.h (where 'machine'
> is a sym link to 'vax').  There is indeed no ieeefp.h file in the 
> /usr/include/vax directory as installed.  Where does this file belong?
> Where can I find it?

You can't.  The VAX doesn't *have* IEEE floating-point.

If Perl now requires IEEE floating-point, that seems like a pretty dumb
decision by the maintainers of Perl, but it's also probably something you'll
have to take up with them.

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    And now he couldn't remember when this passion had flown, leaving him so
  foolish and bewildered and astray: can any man?
						   William Styron