Re: 5.16.2 build

On 1/1/2013 4:51 PM, Craig A. Berry wrote:
>
>> Apparently DECC$READDIR_DROPDOTNOTYPE enabled causes problems. We
>> have that set at work for something else. I had to define it locally to
>> "disabled" and the build completed.
>
> This doesn't surprise me at all. There is latent support that I
> suspect hasn't been tested much. Also note that whether you can build
> with it or not doesn't say much either way about whether you can run
> with it. Anyone interested can poke at what's there by doing:

Several of the DECC$ logicals will probably interfere with build of 
Perl.  I did my builds (a few years ago) with the DECC$ logical names 
settings off.  I only turned them on for testing.

Regards,
-John
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