Re: lang/perl5 on VAX wants NaNs and infinities

[John Klos <john%klos.com@localhost>]

> 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

However, I haven't filed an upstream ticket.

Thanks,
John