Re: Problems building Perl 5.8.4 on Vax/VMS 6.2

On Apr 14, 2009, at 4:00 AM, Rushton, Bernard (B.) wrote:

>
>> 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.
>
> Thanks, but if anyone knows any links I'd be grateful. I've Googled
> every combination I can think of but without success :-(

The source is here:

ftp://www.sidhe.org/perlbuild.zip

On second thought I don't know of any VAX binaries built from that kit.

>> 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.
>
> Mmmm...this is where I may be revealing my ignorance :-o
>
> Given that the kit apparently builds OK generally (it looks like
> gettimeofday is only defined in CRTL post-VMS 7) I believe we should  
> be
> able to do without it, but I don't know how to set about excluding it.
> Trawling through various postings suggests that even if I can cut it  
> out
> of the build I'm likely to hit problems in testing. Hints welcome!
>

There will be a directory, either [ext.Time.HiRes] or [.ext.Time- 
HiRes], that you can simply remove (or replace with a newer version of  
the module from CPAN).  The relevant tests would be under that  
directory so if you remove the whole directory they wouldn't run.

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