On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 04:05:29PM -0600, Craig A. Berry wrote:
> With Perl 5.8.4, OpenVMS Alpha 7.3-1, MMS V3.3-4, MMK 3.9-6, I get the
> following results.
>
> Using MMK, the build goes ok. Most tests pass, except basic.t, which has the
> following problem:
>
> # %DCL-W-TKNOVF, command element is too long - shorten
> # \DSA0:[SYS0.SYSCOMMON.PERL-5_8_4]PERL.EXE -E "chdir 'liar.dir'; system
> 'MMK/MACRO=(TEST_VERBOSE="1") test /Macro=(LIBPERL_A="LIBPERL.OLB",
> LINKTYPE="DYNAMIC", OPTIMIZE="/NOLIST", PREFIX="../DUMMY-INSTALL",
> DESTDIR="", PASTHRU_DEFINE="")'
> if -f 'Descrip
> # %MMK-F-ERRUPD, error status %X000382A0 occurred when updating target TEST
>
> Aside from the command being too long, there is a problem with having
> multiple /MACRO qualifiers on the command line; they need to be
> combined into one qualifier, though in this case all it means is that
> TEST_VERBOSE will be ignored.
Weird. I get no such problem on the testdrive machine (spe180). OpenVMS
Alpha 7.3-2, MMS V3.5. Don't know the MMK version, how do I check?
Anyhow, you're right though. That is incorrect. I added the PASTHRU stuff
to the VMS code thinking it couldn't hurt. I'll have to take a look at it
and see if I can make it work.
> With MMS, I can't build MakeMaker at all and get the following error:
>
> $ mms
> %MMS-F-LEXNULLNAME, Encountered null filename on line 365.
I definately don't get this. Did MMS change that between 3.3 and 3.5?
> Line 365 contains:
>
> blibdirs : $(INST_LIBDIR) $(INST_ARCHLIB) $(INST_AUTODIR) $(INST_ARCHAUTODIR)
> $(INST_BIN) $(INST_SCRIPT) $(INST_MAN1DIR) $(INST_MAN3DIR)
> $(NOECHO) $(NOOP)
>
> I believe the INST_* macros are considered null file specifications
> because they are just directory specs like [.foo.bar] rather than
> file specs like [.foo]bar.dir. I thought we had gone back to using
> .exists files rather than directories, so I'm not sure what to
> suggest here.
Those all have real targets. Like so:
$(INST_LIBDIR) : $(INST_LIBDIR).exists
$(NOECHO) $(NOOP)
$(INST_LIBDIR).exists :
$(NOECHO) $(MKPATH) $(INST_LIBDIR)
$(NOECHO) $(CHMOD) 755 $(INST_LIBDIR)
$(NOECHO) $(TOUCH) $(INST_LIBDIR).exists
I did it this way so that one could depend on a directory target, rather
than having to know about the .exists magic, and it would basically do the
right thing.
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