Re: glob() on VMS totally different than Unix.

On Jan 22, 2009, at 9:03 AM, John Malmberg wrote:

> Peter Prymmer wrote:
>>

>>
>> There is also some advice in the perlport.pod document:
>>  Don't count on filename globbing.  Use C<opendir>, C<readdir>, and
>>  C<closedir> instead.
>
> Based on that, the Module::Build component that is using glob needs  
> to be changed to use File::Glob::glob instead.
>

Adding this:

--- lib/Module/Build/Base.pm;-0 2009-01-14 11:50:10 -0600
+++ lib/Module/Build/Base.pm    2009-01-22 10:49:17 -0600
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ use Carp;
  use Cwd ();
  use File::Copy ();
  use File::Find ();
+use File::Glob ':globally';
  use File::Path ();
  use File::Basename ();
  use File::Spec 0.82 ();
[end]

does keep foo.PL from getting deleted, but overall changes the  
Module::Build score on VMS from:

Failed 3/28 test programs. 17/985 subtests failed.

to:

Failed 8/28 test programs. 36/985 subtests failed.

So that's clearly a step in the wrong direction.  I'm working on  
alternatives.

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