On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, John Peacock wrote:
> I've been trying to build the more recent snapshots (with more VMS
> patches in them), if only because I am running 5.6.0 in production as
> of right now. I am doing only straightforward things, so I am not too
> worried, but I would feel much better to be running 5.7.0.
If I could be so bold as to make a suggestion. I have found the
following DCL script to be quite handy in helping me do test builds
in between other tasks. It will of course require modification to
suit your perl installation and your device name (e.g.
s/dka100/$your_device/). If I could connect my VMS boxes to the internet
I'd have put in a LWP::Simple URL fetcher as well:
$!
$! rebuild.com
$!
$ set default dka100:[000000]
$ show default
$! ensure system perl for doing rmtree
$!(in case someone ran @perl_setup in the test build directory)
$ @sys$common:[perl]perl_setup
$ perl -"MFile::Path" -e -
"@d=map(VMS::Filespec::unixify($_),@ARGV);rmtree(\@d,0,0)" -
dka100:[perl]
$! This line as presented needs to be edited for each bleadperl version
$! a fancier version could use f$search("[]perl_*.tar")
$! or "[]perl_*.tgz" and gunzip
$! Be sure to extract using /date_policy=none qualifier since
$! kits are sometimes quite new and GMT issues cause problems
$! with mms|mmk
$ tar /extract/verbose/date=none perl_6933.tar
$!
$! optional copying of things that may have needed patching:
$!
$! copy dka100:[000000]configure.com dka100:[perl]
$!
$ set default dka100:[perl]
$ purge/log [...]
$ show default
I hope that helps.
Peter Prymmer
