From @paulg1973

Gentle Perl Bug Squashers,

I am the maintainer of the port of Perl to the Stratus VOS operating system.
It would greatly assist me in porting Perl5.005_63 to VOS if you could make
a simple change to config_h.SH. I would like to define the macros SITEARCH
and SITEARCH_EXP at compilation time rather than when config.h is built.
This will let me use the same config.h for all 4 of my architectural
variants. This capability already exists for the macros ARCHLIB and
ARCHLIB_EXP. It should probably exist for SITELIB and SITELIB_EXP too, just
to be consistent (although I don't need it at this time).

I have no capability to test any changes to a shell script, so I am loathe
to give you a patch. But the result I am looking for would change the
generated lines of config.h as follows. As far as I am concerned, you can
define the new macro $d_sitearch to be "define" for all cases; I have my own
technology for converting config_h.SH into config.h that does execute the
shell script itself.

diff -rNC2 <config_h.SH config_h.SH_orig
*** <config_h.SH Wed Feb 02 17​:14​:51 2000
--- config_h.SH_orig Wed Feb 02 17​:13​:41 2000
***************
*** 1490,1495 ****
  * in programs that are not prepared to deal with ~ expansion at run-time.
  */
! #define SITEARCH "$sitearch" /**/
! #define SITEARCH_EXP "$sitearchexp" /**/

  /* SITELIB​:
--- 1490,1495 ----
  * in programs that are not prepared to deal with ~ expansion at run-time.
  */
! #$d_sitearch SITEARCH "$sitearch" /**/
! #$d_sitearch SITEARCH_EXP "$sitearchexp" /**/

  /* SITELIB​:

Thanks!
PG
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From @paulg1973

While this specific change did not get made (for reasons that were
explained to me at the time, I did eventually make a lot of other
changes to the perl build process for VOS. So, I'm closing out this old
report. PG

@paulg1973 - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'