One thing to consider (again from PERLVMS): PERL_ENV_TABLES is translated once when Perl starts up; any changes you make while Perl is running do not affect the behavior of %ENV .
> -----Original Message----- > From: John E. Malmberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005 11:28 AM > To: vmsperl@perl.org; Craig A. Berry; Michael G Schwern; Tom Edelson > Subject: RE: feedback on VMS changes > > > E-mail sent offline quoting, and pointing him to, the %ENV >> section of PERLVMS. > Based on this information, if the Perl features work as > documented, most > of what Makemaker has to do on VMS to eliminate the macro expansion > hacks that is to change the logical name PERL_ENV_TABLES for while > Makemaker is running so that the environment variables are put in > CLISYM_GLOBAL or CLISYM_LOCAL. ...