At 02:36 PM 2/14/00 -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote:
>At 01:26 PM 2/14/00 -0600, Craig A. Berry wrote:
>>Would this be better as
>>
>>+too deep to start to hit the RMS 8 level point (except on ODS-5 disks, first
>>+available in VMS V7.2). It is best to do
>
>Nope. The directory depth limit has nothing to do with ODS-2.
Nice. I didn't know that (obviously). I should have read
<http://www.openvms.digital.com/doc/72final/6536/6536pro_006.html#index_x_176> first.
But then should the following section of the README mention ODS-2?
>+before building in cases where you have to unpack the distribution so deep
>+(note the trailing period in the definition of PERLSRC). Perl modules
>+from CPAN can be just as bad (or worse), so watch out for them, too. The
> configuration script will warn if it thinks you're too deep (at least on
>-versions of VMS prior to 7.2).
>+versions of VMS prior to 7.2). But MakeMaker will not warn you if you
>+start out building a module too deep in an ODS-2 directory.
This might be where I got the wrong idea in the first place, although I'm quite
capapble of coming up with the wrong idea on my own ;-). In any case, good work,
Peter.
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