Re: Compile perl 5.32.1, 5.30,3, 5.28.3, 5.26.3, 5.24.4, 5.22.4 and 5.20.3 on a DS10 OpenVMS 8.4

> On Feb 27, 2021, at 11:10 AM, Oleg Pyzin wrote: > > Hi All! > > A few days ago I've begun to compile perl 5.20 to perl 5.32 on a DS10 > with the OpenVMS 8.4. > For the first time I have been able to compile only perl5.20.2 without > errors. To compile it I need to increase pgflquota to 4000

Re: Experience installing on Alpha VMS 8.3

> On Feb 19, 2021, at 5:17 PM, Miller, Edward S. via vmsperl > wrote: > > As I stated presviously in this thread, our PERL installation (Alpha VMS 8.3) > was apparently successful > and I had my previous questions answered, thank you. I have updated README.vms based on your comments and some

Re: Experience installing on Alpha VMS 8.3

> On Feb 15, 2021, at 10:47 PM, Miller, Edward S. via vmsperl > wrote: > > During the run of all tests these two examples appear as > lib/warnings ... FAILED at > test 710 > t/io/socketpair

Re: Experience installing on Alpha VMS 8.3

On Feb 15, 2021, at 5:07 PM, Miller, Edward S. via vmsperl wrote: > > We have recently installed PERL v5.32.1 on our Alpha VMS 8.3 system using the > distribution from PERL.ORG. > The README.VMS suggests that: >"Regardless of how confident you are, make a bug report to the VMSPerl > mailin

Re: VMS-Perl and VSI-Java

> On Oct 22, 2019, at 7:30 AM, Craig Berry via vmsperl wrote: > >> On Oct 21, 2019, at 2:49 AM, Jouk Jansen wrote: >> >> I noticed problems with Perl, when JAVA80 is configured. I tracked down the >> problem to some decc$ logicals, which are defined by t

Re: VMS-Perl and VSI-Java

> On Oct 21, 2019, at 2:49 AM, Jouk Jansen wrote: > > I noticed problems with Perl, when JAVA80 is configured. I tracked down the > problem to some decc$ logicals, which are defined by the java setup. Yes, I ran into this when the first HPE/VSI Java kit came out. > Maybe it is a good ide

Re: Perl 5.28.1 binary kit for OpenVMS I64 available

> On Nov 29, 2018, at 6:21 PM, Craig Berry via vmsperl wrote: > > An installation kit for OpenVMS I64 v8.4 and later is available at: > > <https://sourceforge.net/projects/vmsperlkit/files/> > > N.B. I no longer have working Alpha hardware so there is no Al

Perl 5.28.1 binary kit for OpenVMS I64 available

An installation kit for OpenVMS I64 v8.4 and later is available at: N.B. I no longer have working Alpha hardware so there is no Alpha kit. The file is a self-extracting archive and after downloading you must run it like so: $ run VMSPORTS-I

Perl survey available

There is a new survey about Perl usage here: http://perl.websurvey.net.au/ VMS does show up as an option when they ask what OS people use Perl on. TPU and EDT do not show up when they ask what you use to edit Perl :-(. Do take the survey if you use Perl.

File::Copy, autodie, VMS (was Re: maint-5.10-1531-ga5f97a6 on VMS status)

On Tuesday, July 07, 2009, at 11:03AM, "Paul Fenwick" wrote: >G'day Craig / All, > >Craig A. Berry wrote: > >> So likely we have an incompatible exit value on File::Copy, but I don't >> know offhand why autodie cares about that. Needs looking into. > >It doesn't *really* care, those tests are

Re: perl_mod

On Wednesday, July 01, 2009, at 03:08PM, "Michael W. Farrell" wrote: >You are correct, ""mod_perl". I stated it backwards. >Yes, we have Apache 1.3 installed and PERL version 5.10. HP does have an Apache 2.1, now somewhat old but a whole lot newer than 1.3. In fact, I didn't know 1.3 would

Re: maint-5.10-1131-gdfc0ab6 on VMS status

On Tuesday, May 12, 2009, at 01:56AM, "Steffen Mueller" wrote: >Craig A. Berry wrote: >> I'm about to try a maint-5.10 build again and see where the PathTools >> integration got us. > >the very recent PathTools upgrades were mainly patches merged from blead >to the CPAN version which resulted

Re: Trapping ctrl/y in VMSPERL

On Sunday, December 28, 2008, at 08:52PM, "doug brann" wrote: > I'm trying to trap ctrl/y in a VMS Perl script. Can anyone help? It >isn't a signal, like ctrl-c, so the usual signal trapping won't >work. Actually it looks like SS$_CONTROLY is mapped to SIGQUIT. Have you tried trapping that?

Re: Installing MLDBM::Sync, prerequisite to Apache::ASP

On Tuesday, October 14, 2008, at 08:41AM, "Vorländer, Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi everybody! > >Has anybody here tried to install Apache::ASP with HP's 5.8.6 distribution? > >As far as I can see, it tries to use MLDBM for (state data) storage, >wrapped in MLDBM::Sync for multi-process

Re: Perl 5.10.0 no building clean on OpenVMS 7.3

On Tuesday, October 14, 2008, at 02:41PM, "Dr. Martin P.J. Zinser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hello, Nice to see your post. It's been awhile. >just tried to build 5.10.0 on OpenVMS Alpha 7.3 (yes, I know it is old) with >Compaq C V6.5-001. > >The build fails in vms.c with he following error

Re: HP's Testdrive being replaced.

On Wednesday, October 01, 2008, at 03:23PM, "Michael G Schwern" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >HP is shutting down it's testdrive program which gives logins to its many >operating systems (see also VMS) for developer evaluation and testing. It's >replacing it with something called HP Partner Virt

Re: Need a small VMS test

On Wednesday, October 01, 2008, at 03:13PM, "Michael G Schwern" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> EAGLE> cc check_max/define=__SIGNED_INT_TIME_T >> EAGLE> link check_max >> EAGLE> run check_max >> gmtime max 2147483647 >>localtime max 2147483647 >> gmtime min

Re: File::Spec in the core

On Tuesday, November 27, 2007, at 03:25PM, "Craig Berry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Tuesday, November 27, 2007, at 11:48AM, "Rafael Garcia-Suarez" <[EMAIL >PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Note also: we have a couple of patches pending by John M

Re: File::Spec in the core

On Tuesday, November 27, 2007, at 11:48AM, "Rafael Garcia-Suarez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Note also: we have a couple of patches pending by John Malmberg, one to >cwd.t and one to File::Spec::VMS (if I don't forget any). I think I may >apply them to bleadperl then, if noone objects. Fine b

Re: Testing Test::Harness on VMS (TestDrive) again

On Tuesday, October 30, 2007, at 01:49PM, "Andy Armstrong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >$ mms test >%MMS-F-BADTARG, Specified target (TEST) does not exist in the >description file. > >Descrip.MMS definitely has a test target. In an attempt to understand >what was going on I did mms/log whic

Re: Some updates to VMS::User

On Wednesday, October 17, 2007, at 10:36AM, "Peter Prymmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Dan: do you have any interest in releasing an updated version of >VMS::User nowadays? If not would you mind if I did? Thanks. Dan gave me co-maintainership (or whatever it's called) for his VMS::* extens

Re: Please test Test::Harness 3 on VMS.

On Wednesday, September 05, 2007, at 08:19AM, "John E. Malmberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Michael G Schwern wrote: >> Hi folks. Test::Harness 3 is in alphas right now and we're working on fixing >> things on VMS. It's a complete gutting and replacement with TAP::Parser. >> I've got it down

Re: Module::Build on VMS

On Wednesday, April 11, 2007, at 12:04PM, "Craig Berry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Wednesday, April 11, 2007, at 09:48AM, "John E. Malmberg" <[EMAIL >PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Andrew Black wrote: >>> print STDERR "***

Re: Module::Build on VMS

On Wednesday, April 11, 2007, at 09:48AM, "John E. Malmberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Andrew Black wrote: >> Craig A. Berry wrote: >>> At 9:57 AM + 2/28/07, Andrew Black (delete obvious bit) wrote: Hi A quick progress report. I worked out roughly what is going on but hadn

Re: Module::Build on VMS

On 2/13/07, Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Andrew Black wrote: > Can I run a subset of the make test - it takes me 40 mins to get to the > point of failure (reminds me of batch Fortran jobs at university). First off, use "Build test". Module::Build provides a Makefile.PL/make/make

Re: Module::Build on VMS

On 2/13/07, Andrew Black <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi At Nicholas' suggestion I have been looking into why Module::Build is failing test on VMS. My observations are - if you run the MB basic.t in isolation it works. - as part of the full make test it doesn't get off the ground. My observat

Re: [perl@30030] blead on OpenVMS doesn't build

On 1/27/07, Abe Timmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I tried to build bleadperl on OpenVMS (td183.testdrive.hp.com) and get the following error: MCR Sys$Disk:[]miniperl.exe "-I[.lib]" [.VMS]Writemain.pl "DynaLoader" %DCL-W-ACTIMAGE, error activating image DECW$XPORT_SERVICES -CLI-E-IMGNAME, ima

Re: can not build log::StdLog from CPAN

On Friday, November 17, 2006, at 05:58PM, "Carl Friedberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I am trying to build Damian Conway's Log::StdLog package from CPAN. > >The first lines of StdLog.pm go like this: > >package Log::StdLog; > >use version; $VERSION = qv('0.0.3'); >I checked, and I can't fi

Re: Difficulty installing more and more modules

On Wednesday, October 18, 2006, at 09:33AM, Mark Berryman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Michael G Schwern wrote: >> Mark Berryman wrote: >> >>> More and more of the modules I need to install in Perl generate a >>> message similar to the following: >>> >>> $ perl makefile.pl >>> ==> ExtUtils::

Fwd: Nick Ing-Simmons

Since not all of you follow perl5-porters, I thought I should forward this very sad notice about the inventor of Perl/Tk and PerlIO. -- Forwarded message -- From: Shona McNeill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sep 26, 2006 1:03 PM Subject: Nick Ing-Simmons To: perl5-porters@perl.org I

Re: XML::Parser XML::DOM XML::XSLT

On Monday, September 25, 2006, at 01:27PM, Carl Friedberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Here's the mms output: > >mms /list=xlst_install.log install > > >ERROR: Can't create 'perl_root:[utils]' >Unknown Error >!!!

Re: Re: [PATCH] Some VMS help (Re: New Module::Build beta)

On 9/10/06, Ken Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Awesome, thanks Craig! I've committed your patch verbatim. Thanks, here's another little one. It accounts for the fact that the Build script is not always called "Build" and that the default setting for the name is now in _set_defaults() rat

[PATCH] Some VMS help (Re: New Module::Build beta)

On 9/7/06, Ken Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'd be obliged if people could send smoke reports for the following, particularly reports of integrating with blead. Thanks. The attached patch against 2805_01 gets the failure rate to 9/21 on VMS, down from something in the high teens. Obvi

Re: bug@28616 - regexec.c has unitialized variable.

On 7/25/06, John E. Malmberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am still attempting to get a VMS build of the current blead. One approach would be to configure with: $ @configure -"Duser_c_flags=/warnings=informationals" Though I haven't tried that, it should mimic the behavior of other platforms t

Re: Stumped trying to figure out why a package won't install

On Monday, May 22, 2006, at 12:35PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >A package I am trying to install has, as a prerequisite, the package >EXTUTILS::AUTOINSTALL. When I attempt to install this package I get the error: > >Can't locate object method "new" via package "Module::Install::autoinstall" >(

Re: [PATCH] VMS-specific arg_defines for CBuilder

On Monday, March 13, 2006, at 04:06PM, Ken Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >BTW, is there a regression test that could have exposed this issue? > > -Ken It did show up in a number of the Module::Build failures, such as xs.t. Anything compiling XS-generated C would hit it since the version

Re: Emulating VMS?

Thanks for the elaboration. There are some things you need to know about VMS before you get too much further with including it in your plans. First of all, while one of the VAX emulators is open source, the OS itself is not. There is a free license available for hobbyists, and it seems that m

Re: build failure 5.84-5.88

On Tuesday, February 07, 2006, at 08:33AM, Chris Sharman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >... failed again - is it tripping over ODS5 >(disk$web:[tools.perl-5^.8^.8]) ? >I think I'll build without dots. >From README.vms, which is recommended reading for anyone buliding Perl on VMS, >especially thos

Re: patch@26996 - patch around stat("_NLA0:") bug

On Tuesday, January 31, 2006, at 04:54PM, Mark Berryman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I am curious. Why would you not want to simply define _USE_STD_STAT? >Is it because this feature is not available on the VAX? How old of a >VMS version does this version of Perl need to compile on? I don

Re: Blead 26919 on OpenVMS - op/stat.t failures

Another thing to check. This code in Perl_flex_stat looks worrisome to me: #ifdef _USE_STD_STAT memcpy(&statbufp->st_ino, &statbufp->crtl_stat.st_ino, 8); #else memcpy(&statbufp->st_ino, statbufp->crtl_stat.st_ino, 8); #endif It seems to me that when _USE_STD_STAT is not in effect, we sh

Re: Blead 26919 on OpenVMS - op/stat.t failures

On Monday, January 23, 2006, at 09:18AM, John E. Malmberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >The puzzling thing is that the statement "-e $Null" will only cause an >access violation for $Null = '_NLA0:'. Replacing it with "-e '_NLA0:' >eliminates the access violation. > >Now the one place where th

Re: [PATCH] fortify Pod::Simple::Search against non-case-preserving filesystems

On Tuesday, January 17, 2006, at 03:26AM, Allison Randal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Dec 27, 2005, at 18:59, Craig A. Berry wrote: > >This patch has a few problems that show up as a large number of >"uninitialized value" warnings during 'make test'. The first problem >is that it assumes

Re: how to install a loadable module?

Martin, A couple of observations. Recent versions of Perl already have Digest::MD5 included ("in the core", as we say). I'm afraid I don't have the exact definition of "recent" handy, but I think it was in the 5.8 time frame. If you can run the following command without error, then you've go

Re: blead on VMS on testdrive

On Monday, October 17, 2005, at 03:15PM, Nicholas Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Which sort of works (at least from bash as /user5/abeltje/MMKDIR/MMK ) >But I can't work out how to make it make "test" Hmm. $ mmk test doesn't work? >On maint, I get warnings/errors at link time: > >%LINK

Re: Extension naming & loading in Perl 5.8.7

On Tuesday, August 16, 2005, at 01:22AM, Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 12:39:00PM +0930, Jeremy Begg wrote: >> Where exactly is the problem here? It looks like Install.PM is assuming the >> case of the filenames returned by File::Find is going to match t

Re: Unable to Create perl 'XS' interface static Library on OpenVMS

On Monday, April 11, 2005, at 09:42AM, Veeresh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi All, > >Could you please clarify the following query: > >I have attached Makefile.PL and the 'DESCRIP.MMS' file generated out of >Makefile.PL by perl with 'perl Makefile.PL' command.When I do 'mms', then it >finally ge

Re: 5.8.6 - t/lib/vmsfspec.t missing from manifest.

On Tuesday, March 15, 2005, at 08:56AM, John E. Malmberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >It appears that the file t/lib/vmsfspec.t is missing from the manifest. >file. It's generated at build time so it should not be in the manifest. $ search [.vms]descrip_mms.template "vmsfspec.t :"/win=2 [.t.li

Re: Module::Install and portability?

On Monday, March 14, 2005, at 12:10PM, Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 08:46:12AM -0500, Thomas R Wyant_III wrote: >> I didn't have any luck with Module::Install under OpenVMS/AXP 7.1-1. It >> does a fair amount of direct manipulation of @INC in ordinary

Re: SYMLINK support needs _USE_STD_STAT like _LARGEFILE is defined.

On Monday, February 28, 2005, at 02:58PM, John E. Malmberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >The perl hack to produce a consistent dev_t st_dev will proably not work >on symbolic links and mount points. > >So to support them I will have to make sure that the modules are built >with the correct struct

Re: BUG: 5.8.6 IEEE float build support incomplete.

On Monday, February 28, 2005, at 02:16PM, John E. Malmberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >If you chose IEEE float, the build scripts do not set everything needed to >build in IEEE floating point mode. Yes, they do, but you don't need to choose anything. IEEE is the default on Alpha (and now I

Re: 5.8.6 - test lib/extutils/t/basic can not find mm.pm

On Monday, February 28, 2005, at 02:42PM, John E. Malmberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I am trying to chase down some bugs in my last few test builds of perl. > >The test [.lib.extutils.t.basic] is failing because: > >ok 1 - chdir'd to Big-Dummy >Can't locate ExtUtils/MM.pm in @INC >(@INC con

Re: Error building 5.8.6

On Tuesday, February 15, 2005, at 03:20PM, Dave Greenwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm trying to build 5.8.6 on VMS 7.3-1, Compaq C V6.5-001 and an ODS-2 disk. >The build stops as follows: What version of MMK? Type: $ MMK/IDENT

Re: Changing osname or ^O from VMS.C at startup?

On Tuesday, February 15, 2005, at 03:21PM, John E. Malmberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I am noticing on a previous build that a number of the tests are failing >when you build with the VMS DEBUG option, and the tests use PERLSHR >instead of DBGPERLSHR. When the tests are run using DBGPERLSHR

Re: Changing osname or ^O from VMS.C at startup?

On Tuesday, February 15, 2005, at 02:21PM, John E. Malmberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >It appears that the VMS specific file name behavior is tied to many perl >scripts that are checking the ^O for 'VMS'. > >What I would like to investigate is having a option where a symbol or >logical name co

Re: ODS-5 Filenames

On Wednesday, February 09, 2005, at 08:47AM, Atkinson, Robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm using TXT2PDF from Sanface Software. We've converted some of our disks to >ODS-5, but now find that the files generated from uppercase filenames are >created in lower case. Perl follows the legacy CRT

Re: Any known problems with socket I/O in Perl?

On Wednesday, February 09, 2005, at 02:16PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > $self->{'sock'}->recv ($data, 65536) or return > $self->set_error('ERECVFAIL'); Is that trying to transfer something one byte larger than the 64K I believe we're limited to in a single $QIO? Just a thought; I don

Re: LARGEFILE configure issue

On Monday, January 31, 2005, at 04:40PM, John E. Malmberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >The configure tests for largefile support is based on if the integer type >is native 64 bits. If you're looking at 5.8.6, all of the 64-bit tests were lumped together under 64-bit integers, which is just pla

Re: Minor ODS-5 build issue.

On Monday, January 31, 2005, at 03:00PM, John E. Malmberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >It should not be to hard to change the configure script to be able to >automatically on Alpha/I64 if those files like changes5^.8.* are in the >multiple dot format or in an ODS-2 compatable name. Luckily I sel

Re: What is the stable version of Perl for VMS.

On Monday, January 31, 2005, at 08:39AM, John E. Malmberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I Would expect that it should be a reasonable restriction in at least >the short term if not longer, that the CONFIGURE.COM and build scripts for >Perl protect them selves from DECC$ feature logicals that prev

Re: Is PERL_AUTHEN set in the VMS build of MOD_PERL?

On Wednesday, January 19, 2005, at 02:18PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I need to authenticate a web page using SecurID. I have found some Perl >modules that claim to be able to do what I need but one of the prerequisites is >that MOD_PERL be built with the appropriate callback by setting PERL_

Re: How to terminate STDIN to perl through a mailbox ?

On Monday, December 06, 2004, at 08:40PM, Sampath Ravindhran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I have an application that spawns a detached process to run a Perl >script, within which it expects to read a bunch of lines from STDIN. To >do this, I have a simple construct like >--- >while (

Re: Installing Test::Harnes

On Tuesday, November 16, 2004, at 03:15PM, Lamb Joseph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >These are the errors that I get when compiling >Test::Harness. Whoa there. What version of Perl do you have? Test::Harness has been in the core for a while so let's make sure you need to install/upgrade befor

Re: Virus spoofing Craig Berry's e-mail address.

On Tuesday, November 09, 2004, at 11:36AM, John E. Malmberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >According to virus alerts that I have seen, that apparent spam was >generated by a virus, and if you have a vulnerable platform, opening the >link in it may infect your computer. Thanks, John. Hopefully th

Re: [PATCH] Detecting strlcat() and strlcpy() in Configure

On Mon, 1 Nov 2004 22:54:23 +, Nicholas Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How little does it take to make VMS build a config.h that reports that > they don't exist? (Not doing any probing, just decree that they aren't > there) Very little. The following should do it (though I'm not in a pos

Re: Question regarding PER_ENV_TABLES logical

I can confirm the same thing happens in the latest 5.9.x development snapshot. The documentation at http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.8.4/vms/perlvms.html#Perl-variables seems to indicate that what you are trying to do should work. However, the code apparently only looks at LNM$FILE_DEV and does n

Re: [PATCH] test_harness tweak for VMS (was Re: [PATCH] add the 'test_harness' target to vms "makefile")

On Wednesday, October 20, 2004, at 02:29PM, Abe Timmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I've changed test.com to use a global symbol rather than a >> parameter to determine whether to use t/TEST or t/harness. That leaves >> the parameters free to work as they always have. > >Sorry about that. I

RE: Correct way to delete file(s) on OpenVMS?

On Wednesday, September 01, 2004, at 08:08AM, Henderson, Jordan (Contractor) (DAASC) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> -Original Message- >> From: Craig A. Berry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> The POSIX standard says, >> >> "The remove() function causes the file named by the pathname point

GCC on OpenVMS (was Re: Correct way to delete file(s) on OpenVMS?)

On Tuesday, August 31, 2004, at 04:37PM, Douglas B Rupp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> The existence of a good port of GNU C/C++ for OpenVMS would make porting Open >> Source tools to OpenVMS easier, which would benefit some enterprise development. > >Well you are making exactly my point which

Re: Perl 5.8.4 in binary and easy-to-build source

On Tuesday, August 24, 2004, at 10:47AM, Pong-TC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can I copy >A2P.EXE,LIB.DIR;1,PERL.EXE;1,PERLSHR.EXE;1, and UTILS.DIR;1 from the >unzipped directory (perl 5.8.4) to the actual directory of perl 5.6.1 so >as to upgrade perl in the system? Don't do that; it can onl

Re: Perl 5.8.4 in binary and easy-to-build source

On Tuesday, August 24, 2004, at 09:42AM, Pong-TC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am >confused with the sentence "run the included perl_setup.com from your >login.com or sylogin.com". Can you please give me more explainations? perl_setup.com doesn't move any files around or make any system modif

Re: Can't locate auto/Net/DNS/typesbyname.al

On Monday, August 09, 2004, at 04:37PM, Dave Greenwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I then did > > mmk clean > mmk > mmk install > >However, I still get the "Can't locate auto/Net/DNS/typesbyname.al" >problem. > >[snip] > >> >So - what's a ".al" file? It's not in the module package so what >>

RE: Unable to locate Driver.xst when trying to install dbd-oracle-1.15 on OpenVMS with Perl 5.6.1 and DBI-1.43

On Tuesday, July 27, 2004, at 01:20AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I ran 'perl -d makemaker.pl' and stepped through until I found the code where >it went awry, in DBD.PM, and edited shamelessly until it succeded... >Maybe not the best way of doing things, but at least I got wiser ... Sounds l

Re: Test failiure 5.8.5 final

On Monday, July 26, 2004, at 03:15PM, Dr. Martin P.J. Zinser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi, > >I've pulled the production version of Perl 5.8.5 from CPAN on Friday. > >Build and test all in all did work very well, thanks to everybody working >on the release! > >I've got one failiure during mmk

Re: [PATCH] prime_env_iter and zero-length values on VMS

On Wednesday, July 14, 2004, at 03:53PM, Nicholas Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Given that this patch is entirely in the VMS code, I don't mind putting it >into 5.8.5, because it can't affect anything other than VMS, and you have >a much better idea of what's sane for VMS than I do. [Plus I

RE: Help requested on BDB-mysql on VMS

Willem, CC'ing the list since this may be of general interest. The Perl dynamic loading code only looks in a specific list of Perl library locations, and then defaults as a last resort to sys$share and sys$library. If you link against an external shareable image, you'll have to always have the

Re: Using the prove facility of later releases of Test::Harness with VMS

On Monday, June 14, 2004, at 03:23PM, IvorW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >One of the problems with troubleshooting perl modules on VMS is the >very non-standard make facility of MMS/MMK. In particular, it's hard to >pass in extra qualifiers to mmk test like TEST_VERBOSE=1, or to >mmk testdb like T

Re: rightslist.dat format (VMS::Indexedfile)

On Wednesday, January 14, 2004, at 01:50PM, Patrick Spinler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Our current DCL code gets this information by calling dumping mcr >authorize show /rights to a file and parsing the results. This, >however, is slow and icky to maintain. > >I'd like to use VMS::Indexedfi

Re: IPv6 support in VMS perl?

On Tuesday, January 06, 2004, at 02:35PM, Karol Zielonko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Does anyone know if we have IPv6 support in VMS Perl? I don't know that it does, but I don't know why it wouldn't. Give Socket6 a try and see what happens: http://search.cpan.org/~umemoto/Socket6-0.14/

Re: Trying perl@21911 on vax

On Monday, December 22, 2003, at 06:23AM, Saku Setala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Ok, now recompiled current with /FLOAT=G_FLOAT > >Compaq C V6.4-005 on OpenVMS VAX V7.3 > >t/op/tie.FAILED at test 21 >ext/Filter/t/callFAILED at test 1 >ext/IO/t/io_

Re: how to un-special-ize $ENV{DEFAULT}

On Tuesday, December 02, 2003, at 09:34AM, Tom Edelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Regarding this statement from PERLDOC PERLVMS: > > The element "$ENV{DEFAULT}" is special: when read, it returns > Perl's current default device and directory, and when set, it > resets the

Re: 5.8.2 and 5.9.0, basic test fails on OpenVMS/VAX 7.3

On Wednesday, November 19, 2003, at 09:54AM, Saku Setala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> $ @[.vms]test .exe "" -"v" [.base]num.t > >if ($^O eq 'ultrix') { > # Ultrix enters looong nirvana over this. > print "ok 47\n"; >} else { > $a = >0.0

RE: File Read Error

On Wednesday, November 05, 2003, at 01:49PM, Thomas R Wyant_III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Robert Atkinson wrote: > >> Remember, you're talking to someone who's used to programming in DCL, which >> will almost always tell you when it encounters problems. Now I've begun using >> this 'new' la

RE: File Read Error

On Tuesday, November 04, 2003, at 03:40AM, Atkinson, Robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Craig, > can you give me an idea where this should go in my original code. >Where will Perl jump to if the fails? As Jordan suggested, I believe the loop you have will exit on failure. As has also b

Re: Invoking Perl script from 'C' with i/o redirection and invocation options

On Tuesday, October 21, 2003, at 05:52AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >First off version info. I am running perl 5.6.1 which I got pre-built from: > > ftp://ftp.sidhe.org/perl-5_6_1-vmsaxp-7_2-1.zip The HP PCSI kit of 5.6.1 has a couple of tweaks and bug fixes not in this version, including on

Re: Some DBD-RDB matters (OpenVMS only)

On Monday, October 20, 2003, at 03:54PM, Craig Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Monday, October 20, 2003, at 03:22PM, Willem Grooters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Hello, >> >>Tried to build BDB-RDB-1_16, when linking, a lot of undefined referenc

Re: Some DBD-RDB matters (OpenVMS only)

On Monday, October 20, 2003, at 03:22PM, Willem Grooters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hello, > >Tried to build BDB-RDB-1_16, when linking, a lot of undefined references >due to the fact that SYS$IBRARY:SQ$USERS.OLB couldn't be located. Quite >obvious: it's called SQL$USER71.OLB. I don't think DB

Re: VMS::Filespec vs. hardcoding in VMS.C in Perl 5.8.1

On Thursday, October 02, 2003, at 03:47PM, Barry Treahy, Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Craig Berry wrote: >>IIRC, part of the problem with CPAN may be that external utilities also need >>additional tweaking. For example, you may need a version of gunzip that does >&

Re: Prebuilt build of 5.8.1 (And a home for the other builds?)

On Wednesday, October 01, 2003, at 12:57PM, Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >With 5.8.1 out, does anyone have a build of it that's fit to go up >for downloads? (With a set of modules prebuilt and installed and all?) I believe Martin Zinsser has a kit that has been submitted for the fre

Re: VMS::Filespec vs. hardcoding in VMS.C in Perl 5.8.1

On Tuesday, September 30, 2003, at 05:34PM, Barry Treahy, Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >If I understand (aka guess) properly, at run time the default calls to >VMS::Filespec are basically being redirected to hardcoded C by way of >the newXSproto calls, which might explain why my debug stat

Re: How to overwrite existing file?

On Tuesday, August 26, 2003, at 05:29PM, Alan Winston - SSRL Central Computing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >WINSTON>type tryit.pl >use Fcntl; >$path = "x.;1"; >sysopen(X, $path, O_WRONLY|O_TRUNC|O_CREAT, 0666) || die $!; >printf X "blabla"; >WINSTON>perl tryit.pl >WINSTON>perl tryit.pl >f

Re: perl crash with $STATUS=%X00000001

On Wednesday, August 27, 2003, at 10:07AM, Michael Lemke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >8/27/03 17:01:04, Craig Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >>On Wednesday, August 27, 2003, at 09:48AM, Michael Lemke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>>

Re: perl crash with $STATUS=%X00000001

On Wednesday, August 27, 2003, at 09:48AM, Michael Lemke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Would be nice if perl would give a real call stack. Linking /NOTRACEBACK is a pretty standard procedure for production code. You can easily enable traceback if you want to.

Re: perl crash with $STATUS=%X00000001

On Wednesday, August 27, 2003, at 08:16AM, Michael Lemke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >forget this. There was an $ON ERROR in the procedure... >So the $status was that of the on error branch. Arghh. But a mysterious accvio is still a problem. Is the problem reproducible with recent 5.8.1 rel

RE: Working with ANSI-standard iostream on VMS

On Monday, August 25, 2003, at 07:36AM, Carl Friedberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I suspect there's some interesting file/record type here (streamlf or something >similar) To follow up on Carl's comment, how is the file being created? Do you have control over the creation? If it's created

Re: maint @ 20617 (on VMS)

On Tuesday, August 12, 2003, at 04:22PM, John Peacock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I just noticed something else wonky: in the perl/t directory there are a lot of >temporary files: > >POD2HTMD.TMP;6 >POD2HTMD.TMP;5 >POD2HTMD.TMP;4 >POD2HTMI.TMP;6 >POD2HTMI.TMP;5 >POD2HTMI.TMP;4 I had a look at

Re: possible patch to perl@20512: debug build tweaks.

On Tuesday, August 12, 2003, at 11:04AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >One way that I have found to get things like C[---]dbgperl.exe> >into the generated descrip.mms files But isn't the whole problem that we want [---]ndbgperl.exe, not [---]dbgperl.exe? I can't think of any reason the ge

Re: maint @ 20617 (on VMS)

On Tuesday, August 12, 2003, at 01:46PM, John Peacock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Since there have been reports of 100% clean, I thought it important to highlight >some possible marginal cases. Good point. >How can I display all of the OpenVMS versions, so >I know what may need patching?

Re: maint @ 20617

On Tuesday, August 12, 2003, at 12:15PM, John Peacock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Bad news on the VMS front with the latest snapshot. :~( Thanks for the additional testing, and consider how picky we've gotten that 99.39% successful is considered bad news. I get all tests successful on Open

another snapshot towards 5.8.1

See the announcement at: http://nntp.x.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/78862 This includes the File::Find fix and a few other recent VMS-specific tweaks. Also see the VMS section in [.pod]perldelta.pod and see if I've left out anything important that's happened since 5.8.0.

Re: Bit::Vector 6.3 problems on VMS

On Wednesday, July 23, 2003, at 03:16PM, Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 08:26:01AM -0500, Craig A. Berry wrote: >> We'd have to know (or determine at compile-time) whether the compiler >> had this capability > >Ok, should be a simple matter of having Config

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