See the announcement here:This is great news, thank you. I'm new to Perl on VMS, not to Perl in general, and I've already completed the 5.8.0 build on a VAX running VMS 7.2. The problem I'm running into, appears to be VMS related. For example, a simple CPAN install like:
http://nntp.x.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/82678
5.8.1 includes the bug fixes and enhancements that OpenVMS Engineering performed on the hp-supported 5.6.1 kit (thanks to Scott Lepage), as well as a host of other improvements. See [.pod]perldelta.pod in the distribution.
There has been a voluminous increase in the number of regression tests in the 5.8.x time frame: there are now over 75,000 tests. All pass successfully with default configurations of recent release candidates on OpenVMS Alpha 7.2 or later. OpenVMS VAX and older versions of OpenVMS Alpha are likely to have a handful of test failures, which generally just means that a small subset of features are unavailable.
perl -MCPAN -e 'install Bundle::DBI'
or
perl -MCPAN -e shell
does nothing. It goes off and returns back nothing, no results, no errors... I did find that DCL symbols can get in the way, such as having INSTALL defined:
CHARON$ sh sym install INST*ALL == "$SYS$SYSTEM:INSTALL/COMMAND"
But never the less, if I remove all local and global symbols, still no joy. I don't suppose 5.8.1 deals with any of this, or are these behavior problems a by product of running Perl on VMS and if it is the later, does anyone have a FAQ of all the bullets to learn and avoid so I can start moving forward?
TIA,
Barry
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