VMS::Filespec vs. hardcoding in VMS.C in Perl 5.8.1

[Barry Treahy, Jr.]

Hi Gents,

This is new territory for my as I do not do C, but if someone can 
confirm for me the following, it might help me at least move in the 
right direction.

Yes, I'm still screwing around with CPAN.pm and I believe I see what is 
happening and I've attempted to add calls to CPAN to vmsify the target 
files, but nothing changed.  So I added debug lines to [.VMS]Filespec.pm 
and was taken back a bit when none worked, except the main routine at 
Perl startup.  I then noticed the comments at the top of Filespec.pm 
referring to the vms.c hooks. 

If I understand (aka guess) properly, at run time the default calls to 
VMS::Filespec are basically being redirected to hardcoded C by way of 
the newXSproto calls, which might explain why my debug statements in 
Filespec.pm are not working.  First, is this what is happening?  If not, 
then does anyone have any idea as to why I'm not getting basic print 
debug lines I've added to Filespec.pm?

Best regards,

Barry

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