Michael G Schwern wrote:
Maint is still using MakeMaker 6.17 which is now TWO YEARS OLD!
Last I checked there was some VMS failure or another possibly tied to
File::Find but I don't have details. I really rather 5.8.8 not go out with
6.17 again, 6.30 is good and stable. Can we just take the plunge, put 6.30
into maintperl and work out the glitches?
As 6.30 appears to be in blead-perl now, I do not see any File::Find issues.
The only issues I am seeing are resolved in cpan #14657 and the issue
about the "false" command that you are looking at in your previous message.
And this issue only seems to affect a test, and not building Perl:
If the logical name "BIN" is defined on the VMS system, as the GNV
product does on it's installation, then the following needs to be
defined for the script lib/ExtUtils/t/basic.t to pass test 67.
$define decc$disable_to_vms_logname_translation "ENABLE"
Otherwise subdirectories named bin/ can not be accessed if they are the
start of a relative path in UNIX notation and a logical name bin also
exists.
I am looking at adding the ability to set/read these features to the
vmsish module as it seems the natural place for them.
I just completed a test build with hard links and other new VMS 8.2
features enabled, and all the make-maker tests still passed.
-John
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