RE: Building VMS Perl

Craig & Andrew,

I have a procedure I use to build the latest release, which I run from batch.


 It needs some work. Andrew, if you wish, I'll forward it to you with some comments.

I have these issues which I will research and report back to the group (all with VMS 8.3 on alpha):

(1) my batch script generates 2 batch logs with the same name. One from configure; the other from the main build and test script. Craig made some changes to configure.com which should have fixed this;  I will dig in and report back.

(2) the tests hang on (all flavors of 5-12)

ext/Devel-SelfStubber/t/Devel-SelfStubber

I will try again with that test removed from manifest. (is that the recommended way to skip a test?)

(3) I am still building with -Uuseperlio because of previous issues (since 5-10) with extraneous line endings inserted when processing long lines ( Martin Z. and Craig have worked that; apparently there's an extra line ending every 4048 characters ). 

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-----Original Message-----
From: Craig A. Berry [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2011 8:05 AM
To: Black, Andrew (Global Products Unit)
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Building VMS Perl

On Mar 23, 2011, at 6:10 AM, Black, Andrew (Global Products Unit) wrote:

> Thanks Craig.
> Which would be a good version to try. I notice some trouble with 5.12.2 but maybe that has been fixed.

5.12.3 is current and that's what I'd recommend.  The latest source is always available from:

http://www.cpan.org/src/



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