I'm working on continuing to port perl5 to z/OS. One test that is
failing is beyond my knowledge level. The Dynaloader module has a
function dl_findfile() which looks for libraries in the path. It is
expecting to find libc at least, but is finding nothing.
This test does not work on several platforms, even some Unix-like ones,
and my guess is it doesn't work on z/OS either. But I am hoping someone
can give me more information.
One of the comments in the perl source says:
# On OS/390, libc.a doesn't really hold anything at all,
And that makes me think that looking for it (and perhaps any Unix-y
library) is futile.