2009/11/7 Steve Hay <steve.m.hay@[...].com> :
>  2009/11/7 Sisyphus <sisyphus1@[...].au>:
> > Hi,
> >
> > In the win32/makefile.mk, pertaining to the building of perl with 64-bit
> > Microsoft compilers (in particular "Microsoft Platform SDK for Windows
> > Server 2003 R2"), we have:
> >
> > .IF "$(WIN64)" == "define"
> > LIBBASEFILES    = $(LIBBASEFILES) bufferoverflowU.lib
> > .ENDIF
> >
> > With nmake there's no problem with that but, to dmake, that middle line is
> > an error because of the circularity regarding LIBBASEFILES. (Sorry, I've
> > lost the exact error message, though I can easily re-create it if that's
> > important.)
> >
> > Is there a simple way of rewriting that middle line that both keeps dmake
> > happy && has the desired effect ?
> 
>  Yes, use +=, as is used elsewhere already.
> 
>  I'd commit it now, but by ssh doesn't seem to be working...
> 

It works again now after I set a push.default (not sure if that really
made the difference since it's been warning about not having one for a
while now...), so it's in as d541574574df104c39aaaba6d251728919eacd38.