Re: MHonArc v2.5.0b Is Available

[John Poltorak <jp@eyup.org>]

On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 10:29:29AM -0700, Earl Hood wrote:
> On September 4, 2001 at 10:10, John Poltorak wrote:
> 
> > >     o	The default value of DEFRCNAME is now ".mhonarc.mrc"
> > > 	("mhonarc.mrc" for Win/DOS).
> > 
> > The default value is also "mhonarc.mrc" on OS/2. 
> > 
> > Just wondered how the default name for a particular system is determined...
> 
> "mhonarc.mrc" is used if $MSDOS or $VMS is true.  Look at the
> file osinit.pl on how these variables get set.  Here is the snippet
> that causes $MSDOS to be set to 1:
> 
>     } elsif (($^O !~ /cygwin/i) &&
>              (($^O =~ /mswin/i) ||
>               ($^O =~ /\bdos\b/i) ||
>               (($tmp = $ENV{'COMSPEC'}) &&
>                ($tmp =~ /^[a-zA-Z]:\\/) &&
>                (-e $tmp))) ) {
>         $MSDOS = 1;  $MACOS = 0;  $UNIX = 0;  $VMS = 0;
>         $DIRSEP = '\\';  $CURDIR = '.';
>         $PATHSEP = ';';
> 
> I betting that $ENV{'COMSPEC'} is set under OS/2.

It's normally set to C:\OS2\CMD.EXE, although it isn't actually required 
for OS/2 to run.
 
> I am under the impression that OS/2 should be treated as "msdos" for
> the purposes of MHonArc usage.  If you believe this to be incorrect,
> please follow-up on how OS/2 should be handled so I can make the
> corrections in osinit.pl.

OS/2 is DOS-like in terms of dirsep, pathsep and use of drive letters, 
although I like to try and create as Unix-like environment as I can when 
using Unix programs, but that's just my personal preference.

 
> One thing I would like is to explicitly check for OS/2.  Can you
> provide what the value of $^O is in Perl under OS/2?

Here's what I get:-

os2


Also perl -V show this:-

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 6 subversion 0) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=os2, osvers=2.45, archname=os2
    uname='os2 workpad 2 2.45 i386 unknown '
    config_args='-des -D prefix=c:/usr/lib/perl'
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=undef 
usemultiplicity=undef
    useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define
    use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef usesocks=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='gcc', optimize='-O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -malign-loops=2 -malign-jumps=2 -malign-functions=2 -s', gccversion=2.8.1
    cppflags='-Zomf -Zmt -DDOSISH -DOS2=2 -DEMBED -I. -D_EMX_CRT_REV_=63'
    ccflags ='-Zomf -Zmt -DDOSISH -DOS2=2 -DEMBED -I. -D_EMX_CRT_REV_=63'
    stdchar='char', d_stdstdio=define, usevfork=false
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
    ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=4
    alignbytes=4, usemymalloc=y, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='gcc', ldflags ='-Zexe -Zomf -Zmt -Zcrtdll -Zstack 32000'
    libpth=c:/emx/lib c:/emx/lib/mt
    libs=-lsocket -lm -lbsd
    libc=c:/emx/lib/mt/c_import.lib, so=dll, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.lib
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=dll, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' '
    cccdlflags='-Zdll', lddlflags='-Zdll -Zomf -Zmt -Zcrtdll -s'


Characteristics of this binary (from libperl):
  Compile-time options: USE_LARGE_FILES
  Built under os2
  Compiled at Mar  4 2001 16:32:30
  @INC:
    c:/usr/lib/perl/lib/5.6.0/os2
    c:/usr/lib/perl/lib/5.6.0
    c:/usr/lib/perl/lib/site_perl/5.6.0/os2
    c:/usr/lib/perl/lib/site_perl/5.6.0
    c:/usr/lib/perl/lib/site_perl
    .


 
> Thanks,
> 
> --ewh
> 

-- 
John