Status of VMS - Unix compatibilty Extended in blead.

Looking over what I have different than blead for the Unix Compatibility 
and Extended character set support, these are the outstanding items:


lib/File/Compare.t

Patch submitted previously to properly diagnose VMS todo issues.


Miscellaneous fixes to Install.

lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm
lib/ExtUtils/t/INST.t
lib/ExtUtils/t/INST_PREFIX.t

Submitted to cpan.org
https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=42149


Update MakeMaker to support VMS in Unix or Extended character set mode.
Without this update, MakeMaker is still using teh eliminate_macros() and 
fixpath() in File::Spec::VMS instead of its internal ones.

lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm
lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm
lib/ExtUtils/t/recurs.t

https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=42151


Only update %ENV{'bin'} if it exists.  This module is common to 
ExtUtils::MakeMaker and ExtUtils::Install.

https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=42150


Add support for testing VMS when it is returning Posix exit codes, and 
also fix an issue generating the perl command.

lib/Test/Simple/t/exit.t

https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=42150


Make sure that values passed to DCL command lines are in VMS format.

lib/ExtUtils/t/Embed.t


Module build fixes,

Many fixes, need to merge Unix fixes submitted on earlier with the patch 
Craig submitted on ticket 42724

lib/Module/Build/Base.pm
lib/Module/Build/Compat.pm
lib/Module/Build/Platform/VMS.pm
lib/Module/Build/t/compat.t
lib/Module/Build/t/install.t
lib/Module/Build/t/metadata.t
lib/Module/Build/t/lib/DistGen.pm

https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?&id=42724


With these, I am only seeing three failures in the automated run:

lib/Thread/Queue/t/02_refs.t
lib/vmsish.t - gmtime issue.
op/utftaint.t - taint issue that was present in my Perl 5.10 tests.


-John
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