Re: Problems building Perl 5.8.4 on Vax/VMS 6.2

On Apr 8, 2009, at 3:25 AM, Rushton, Bernard (B.) wrote:


> First off, I downloaded the pre-built 5.4.4 binaries for Vax/VMS 6.2  
> but
> unfortunately LWP requires Perl 5.6 or later. Argh.
>

I think there are some 5.6.1 binaries around, in case that helps, or  
at least a perlbuild.zip that contains 5.6.1.

> OK, I then thought the easiest way would be to use Craig Berry's
> PERLBUILD584.ZIP as that seems to include what we need. Sadly the  
> build
> is failing so I would greatly appreciate some pointers on where to go
> next.
>
> (Using VMS 6.2 on Vax 4000-105A, DEC C v5.5-002 (though the build
> procedure reports 50590002), MMS v3.1-03)
>
> Here is the last part of the log:-


>
>        Making Time/HiRes (dynamic)
> Configuring Time::HiRes...
> Your operating system does not seem to have the gettimeofday()  
> function.
> (or, at least, I cannot find it)
>
> There is no way Time::HiRes is going to work.
>
> I am awfully sorry but I cannot go further.
>
> Aborting configuration.
>
> Looking for gettimeofday()...
> %RMS-E-FNF, file not found
> %RMS-E-FNF, file not found
> %MMS-F-ABORT, For target DYNEXT, CLI returned abort status:  
> %X00018292.
> -RMS-E-FNF, file not found
>

The first thing I would try would be to see if a newer version of  
Time::HiRes from CPAN has any workarounds for the absence of  
gettimeofday().  The second thing I would try would be to excise  
Time::HiRes from the kit and see if you can live without it.

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