Re: maint-5.10-1196-ga8a43ff on VMS status

John E. Malmberg wrote:
> Dave Mitchell wrote:
>> On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 04:38:15PM -0500, John E. Malmberg wrote:
>>> Craig A. Berry wrote:
>>
>>> I think that some of my patches to allow the ExtUtils modules to 
>>> work  with the Extended Character sets on ODS-5 volumes and the UNIX 
>>> report  modes have not yet made it into the CPAN versions.
> 
> This is what is still different from what I have.  From the earlier 
> discussion, it looks like some commits might have been made to blead 
> that did not show up in perl.perl5.changes.  When that happens, my copy 
> of blead gets out of synch.
> 
>> Do you have a list (eg module names and RT IDs?)
> 
> https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=42149
> lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm
> lib/ExtUtils.t/INST.t
> lib/ExtUtils/t/INST_PREFIX.t
> 
> https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=42151
> lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm
> lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm
> lib/ExtUtils/t/recurs.t
> 
> https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=42150
> lib/ExtUtils/t/basic.pl
> 
> https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=42148
> lib/Test/Simple/t/exit.t
> 
> https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=42147
> lib/ExtUtils/t/Embed.t
> 
> 
> https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=42724
> https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=42157
> Some of these are in, but some are not.
> lib/ExtUtils.CBuilder.Platform/VMS.pm
> 
> lib/Module/Build/Compat.pm  - Ticket 41331.
> 
> lib/ExtUtils.Cbuilder.t]01-basic.t
> lib/ExtUtils.Cbuilder.t]02-link.t
> I thought I have this filed somewhere in the above tickets, but this is 
> an issue of the test leaving work files behind.  Not sure where the bug 
> is right now.
> 
> 
> lib/Module/Build/t/extend.t
> lib/Module/Build/t/install.t
> lib/Module/Build/t/metadata.t
> lib/Module/Build/t/runthrough.t
> lib/Module/Build/t/lib/DistGen.pm
> 
> These should be in the above CPAN tickets for Module Build.
> 
> 
> lib/File/Compare.t has existing bugs that show up when VMS is run with 
> the extended filename character set enabled.  I submitted a patch that 
> diagnoses the bugs to explain why the test will not work until Perl is 
> updated.  This was submitted to blead, so I do not have a ticket.
> 
> t/op/taint.t has a test that is exposing an tainting issue on VMS when 
> run with a world writable temp directory.  I submitted a patch to skip 
> the tests with a TODO.  This was submitted to blead so I do not have a 
> ticket.

I missed lib/File/Path.t, which has a test that is invalid on VMS, but 
this only shows up as an issue when VMS is in the Unix compatible mode. 
  This was submitted to blead, so I do not have a ticket.

-John
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