Re: Trying to build PERL 5.22.3RC1 on OpenVMS VAX V7.3 with some issues...

On Aug 21, 2016, at 7:31 AM, Jonathan Belanger =
<[email protected]> wrote:
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> Hi All,
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> I just joined the list, so please let me know if I make any mistakes.
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> I=E2=80=99m trying to build PERL 5.22.3RC1 on a emulated VAX running =
OpenVMS VAX V7.2 (unpatched). =20

Why?  The VAX architecture was discontinued sixteen years ago.  If you =
succeed it will take days and days to do the build.  There have been an =
increasing number of features that won=E2=80=99t work right on an ODS-2 =
disk.  So, it=E2=80=99s an uphill battle, and not worth the effort when =
you can get an Alpha emulator or a cheap Itanium on eBay.

> After getting past a few issues that prevented the build from =
proceeding (CONFIGURE.COM, DESCRIP_MMS.TEMPLATE, and MAKFILE.PL in =
DYNALOADER needed some changes).  I=E2=80=99m now at the point where MD5 =
is compiling and though it shows CPU time being takeng up, there is no =
I/O occurring and the compilation never returns.  The compile I=E2=80=99m =
using is Compaq (DEC) C V6.4.  Has anyone else had this issue?  I=E2=80=99=
m not sure how to best debug it.  Any help would be appreciated.

The optimizer on that old compiler gets confused but compiling with =
/Optimize=3D(NODISJOINT) has been reported to do the trick.

There is a patch to do that here in this ticket:

<https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=3D85932>

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