Re: Building 5.12.1

On Jun 22, 2010, at 10:10 AM, Mark Berryman wrote:

> I am attempting to build Perl 5.12.1 on VMS V8.3 systems.  I have  
> tried both Alpha and Integrity, and with the build disk being both  
> ODS-5 and ODS-2.  In all cases the build aborts once it reaches the  
> CPAN section, as follows:
>
> Running Makefile.PL in cpan/Archive-Extract
> $1$dkd0:[berryman.perl-5_12_1]miniperl.exe;1 "Makefile.PL"  
> "INST_LIB=[--.lib]" "INST_ARCHLIB=[--.lib]" "PERL_CORE=1"
> Writing Descrip.MMS for Archive::Extract
> Making all in cpan/Archive-Extract
> MMK "all" /DESCRIPTION=descrip.mms /MACRO=("PERL_CORE=1")
> %MMK-F-CANTUPD, cannot update target [.LIB]ARCHIVE - sources unknown
> %MMK-F-CANTUPD, cannot update target [.LIB]ARCHIVE - sources unknown
> Unsuccessful make(cpan/Archive-Extract): code=1024 at make_ext.pl  
> line 449.
> %NONAME-F-NOMSG, Message number 0C14805C
> %MMK-F-ERRUPD, error status %X0C14805C occurred when updating target  
> NONXSEXT
>
> I did a standard configure using -des and there were no DECC  
> logicals or dangerous symbols defined at build time.
>
> Is there anything special that needs to be done in order to build  
> the 5.12.1 kit?

Shouldn't be.  What's your MMK version?  I've been using v4.1 from <http://www.kednos.com/kednos/Open_Source/MMK 
 >.

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