Is a build a build if a build can't build a build?

A build is a build if a build can build a build using VS7/nmake...

Z:\AP805\AP805_source\win32>nmake test
<snipped>
All tests successful, 53 tests and 601 subtests skipped.
Files=722, Tests=69370, 730 wallclock secs ( 0.00 cusr +  0.00 csys = 
+ 0.00 CPU)
        cd ..\win32
Z:\AP805\AP805_source\win32>..\perl.exe -v
This is perl, v5.8.0 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
(with 1 registered patch, see perl -V for more detail)
Copyright 1987-2002, Larry Wall
Binary build 805 provided by ActiveState Corp. http://www.ActiveState.
+com
Built 12:31:52 Mar  8 2003
[download]

;-)

Seriously though, we need more Win32 people with compilers to build perl and post bug reports and patches and updates. Also, afaik the AS builds and the mainline builds are only slightly different. Installing libwin32 (available from Gurusamy Sarathy) over the mainline build (along with a few extra distributions) gets you an AS distribution pretty much. So patches to the win32 makefiles should go to Perl5Porters and not to AS. Sarathy or Nick Ing Simmons will probably be consulted by the pumpking as to the patches win32 worthyness I'd guess, but I know that there aren't too many vocal Win32 people on P5P, so Im sure any contributions would be appreciated.

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demerphq
How much wood would a Woodchuck chuck if Woodchuck could chuck wood?
A Woodchuck would chuck all the wood he could chuck if a Woodchuck could chuck wood.
But a Woodchuck can't chuck wood, so a Woodchuck wouldn't chuck any wood at all would he?