Re: Perl 5.12.2-RC1 is now available

On Sep 2, 2010, at 4:54 AM, Vorländer, Martin wrote:

> Another datapoint:
>
> I re-unpacked the kit, this time using SET PROCESS/PARSE=EXTEND

That should be unnecessary, as I don't think vmstar cares what the  
process settings are.

> and NOT vmstar/ods2,

That's very necessary!  Since 5.10.0 or so, README.vms says regarding  
vmstar, "Contrary to advice
provided with previous versions of Perl, do I<not> use the ODS-2  
compatability qualifier."

> renamed the perl directory,

and that's also necessary, also documented in README.vms.  Actually,  
it may not be necessary in 5.12.2 as I've finally fixed some of the  
related problems in File::Spec, but I haven't tried it.

> and it built flawlessly.

Good.  I'm surprised by the build difficulties as I build frequently  
without encountering them.  Perhaps this area needs more attention or  
perhaps I should supply binary kits since HP hasn't updated theirs in  
so many years.

> MMK test yields "Failed 25 tests out of 1625, 98.46% okay." with
> CPANplus, ExtUtils::MakeMaker, and Module::Build, and  
> ExtUtils::Install
> contributing 21 of the failed tests. I include the results of running
> the other 4 in this mail.
>

I don't actually see the test output.

> BTW:
> 1. The disk is ODS-5 with special files enabled.
> 2. As I did a SET HOST/LOG, TT was defined to RTA1. Deassigning it
>   didn't change the outcome of the perl5db test.
> 3. The machine runs on UTC -
>  "SYS$LOCALTIME" = "SYS$SYSROOT:[SYS$ZONEINFO.SYSTEM]UTC."
>  "SYS$TIMEZONE_DAYLIGHT_SAVING" = "0"
>  "SYS$TIMEZONE_DIFFERENTIAL" = "0"
>  "SYS$TIMEZONE_NAME" = "UTC"
>  "SYS$TIMEZONE_RULE" = "UTC0"
> 4. No PATH logical.



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