Re: Problem building Perl 5.10.0 on OpenVMS V8.3-1H1

[Thunderbird does not handle Martin's e-mail address, and is breaking it 
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Craig A. Berry wrote:
> 
> 
> I have MMS 3.8-2 on Alpha and seldom if ever use it because of this 
> problem.  It appears to simply ignore the rule that looks like:
> 
> # --- MakeMaker xs_c section:
> 
> .xs.c :
>         $(XSUBPPRUN) $(XSPROTOARG) $(XSUBPPARGS) $(MMS$TARGET_NAME).xs 
>  >$(MMS$TARGET)
> 
> 
> I don't know if case sensitivity is a problem here, such that if you 
> defined .xs.C, .XS.C, and .XS.c as well as the above it might pick up 
> one of them.  SET PROCESS/CASE_LOOKUP=SENSITIVE might do something for 
> this but would probably break a lot of other things.

Defining a rule for each of the case types of the extension may help.

SET PROCESS/CASE_LOOKUP=SENSITIVE probably will not work for various 
reasons, including the default mode of Perl to lowercase almost all 
filename references, and the build procedure will create several files 
in a different case than on Unix.

> I suppose we ought to diagnose what exactly MMS is doing here and fix 
> MakeMaker to work around it, but over the years they've always thought 
> of new ways to break MMS faster than we could come up with workarounds.  
> I use MMK almost exclusively, which avoids both of the problems 
> mentioned and is still available here:

MMS does not support ODS-5 yet.  That is the whole issue.

> http://www.madgoat.com/
> 
> http://www.kednos.com/kednos/Resources/MX

MMS was supposed to be getting a fix about now to support ODS-5, first 
for Itanium and then on Alpha.

I do not know when hobbyists will be able to get a kit with a fix.

-John
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