perl-5.8.3-RC1 on VMS.

[rfsber]

Hi,

I have reported four failed tests for perl-5.8.3-RC1 on VMS.
It turns out that three of these are due to the way I
unpacked the archive, that is:
    untar perl-5.8.3-RC1.tar.gz to directory perl-5.8.3-RC1 on windows
    zip   directory perl-5.8.3-RC1 to perl-5.8.3-RC1.zip on windows
    copy zip file to VMS
    unzip perl-5.8.3-RC1.zip  on VMS
    configure, compile, test
results in:
    t/op/read............................FAILED at test 1
    ext/Encode/t/enc_data................FAILED at test 2
    lib/Unicode/UCD......................FAILED at test 1
    lib/vmsish...........................FAILED at test 25
unzip on VMS stores the unzipped files in a parculiar record format
that makes tests that read data from file using read() fail.

A
    untar perl-5.8.3-RC1.tar.gz on VMS
    configure, compile, test
results in:
    lib/vmsish...........................FAILED at test 25
which is apearently a known issue.

Have fun,
Frans.