Can you tell us more about the problems caused when using a rooted logical? That not only should work but actually is recommended building practice (applicable mainly to ODS-2 volumes on VMS versions prior to V7.1) as mentioned in README.vms.
I had dozens of failures as well the testing itself failing to complete. I wound up running out of diskspace while trying to build a second copy, so I deleted all of the files from the earlier run (include the failed test logs). I'm going to start from scratch and do both a rooted logical build as well as one without a rooted logical (somewhere closer to the base of the filesystem).
One other thing to note is that the PERL_SETUP.COM that
gets written out by CONFIGURE.COM will, if you ran
configure with the default of C<@configure "-des">
set up a definition for PERL_ROOT that does not
point to your source directory.
I have always edited the configure.com, since it never corresponds to where I will eventually install Perl anyways. Since I have always built in my home directory, but installed on another drive, the generated file is never correct. Perhaps it would be best to document exactly what commandline parameter needs to be passed to Configure in order to specify the eventual installation directory. I have never even used the 'mmk install' target; I have always used 'mmk clean' then used backup to copy the files over to their new home.
John
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