RE: DBI test failure (Re: Building VMS Perl (5-12.3) Cannot find Extutils-Command)

[email protected] (Andreas Ã…hman) Thu, 26 May 2011 16:05:14 +0200
Newsgroups perl.vmsperl
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>> Ok I think I sorted it out.

> Good news.  What did you do?

What I did do was to define perl5lib to the <.lib> directory in the source tree.

>> I do however get a few failures.
>> Is anything to be concerned about?

>Probably not.  4 failures out of 6597 isn't bad at all.  This test looks like it's using a test driver called >DBD::Gofer, which apparently implements tables as files.  If you care about DBD::Gofer, then investigate.  Otherwise I >would pay more attention to the tests of whatever DBD module you plan to use.

Ok good.
I'm planning to run MySQL so it shouldn't be any problems.
Sorry for any newbie questions but all I've ever done before on VMS is link a few binaries.
But so far I'm feeling good.. :)

/Andreas