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Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 11:15:47 EDT
From: lane (Charles Lane) @ DUPHY4.Physics.Drexel.Edu
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Subject: Re: [ID 20000330.044] Not OK: perl v5.6.0 on VMS_AXP V7.1
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To: BAILEY @ newman.upenn.edu
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Charles Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Charles Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> | A patch for the glob-basic test was posted here on 17 Mar.
> It's in the repository, but I think it just missed being wrapped
> into the 5.6.0 kit as sarathy was trying to minimize changes.
> The GLOB_NOCASE question is stil up in the air (briefly: would
> it be best under VMS to add GLOB_NOCASE to all calls, since the
> filesystem is monocase?).
Well, maybe our friends at Compaq/DEC could gives us a hint: is
VMS going to go "cased" anytime in the forseeable future? With all
the other "creeping unixisms", I figure cased filenames can't be
that far behind...
> | The piping changes depend on PERL_ROOT being defined so that the
> | DCL wrapper file can be found when spawning subprocesses; in
> | discussion with Charles Bailey it was clear that other approaches
> | (writing local tempfiles) weren't very secure...and I don't much
> | like the idea of "hard-coding" a directory spec into the code.
> |
> | Is it worth looking for a different method just so we can avoid
> | using PERL_ROOT during build/test?
> How 'bout doing a regular @INC lookup, and installing vmspipe.com in
> the library?
Hmmm....that's got a ton of implications, you know.
For example, a user's script mucks around with @INC and then can't do
any system() calls. Not exactly an "obvious consequence".
I'll have to do some poking to see whether a @INC scheme would work
for miniperl during the build...since miniperl can't do "use" but
does do "system()", it's not clear that @INC is set up properly.
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