Found ancient perl.exe in sys$system - removed it, and all's well. Well, much better, anyway - 5.8.8 built. Test results - 10 failures. I managed to run the first of these, for more details, but the details didn't mean much to me - should I be worrying ? System: Alpha VMS 7.3-1, DEC C 6.5-001
Thanks Chris t/io/fs...................................FAILED at test 26 ext/Devel/PPPort/t/ppphtest...............FAILED--unexpected output at test 0 ext/List/Util/t/p_tainted.................FAILED--no leader found ext/List/Util/t/weak......................FAILED--unexpected output at test 7 lib/ExtUtils/t/basic......................FAILED at test 67 lib/ExtUtils/t/Command....................FAILED at test 8 lib/ExtUtils/t/FIRST_MAKEFILE.............FAILED at test 4 lib/ExtUtils/t/PL_FILES...................FAILED at test 3 lib/Math/BigInt/t/mbi_rand................FAILED--unexpected output at test 56 lib/Test/Simple/t/is_deeply_fail..........FAILED at test 73 Failed 10 test scripts out of 892, 98.88% okay. ### Since not all tests were successful, you may want to run some of ### them individually and examine any diagnostic messages they produce. ### See the INSTALL document's section on "make test". ### You have a good chance to get more information by running ### ./perl harness ### in the 't' directory since most (>=80%) of the tests succeeded. u=493.57 s=0.00 cu=0.00 cs=0.00 scripts=892 tests=114061 7-FEB-2006 21:26:16.42 User: CHRIS Process ID: 20402EC3 Node: CYGNUS Process name: "CHRIS_206" Accounting information: Buffered I/O count: 638024 Peak working set size: 9008 Direct I/O count: 159946 Peak virtual size: 175136 Page faults: 17598 Mounted volumes: 0 Images activated: 84 Elapsed CPU time: 0 00:08:13.74 Connect time: 0 03:50:17.74 Soft CPU Affinity: off %SYSTEM-F-ABORT, abort $ mc [-]perl io/fs.t 1..42 ok 1 - umask ok 2 # skip: no link ok 3 # skip: no link ok 4 # skip: no link ok 5 # skip: no link ok 6 - chmod succeeding ok 7 # skip: no link ok 8 # skip: no link ok 9 # skip: no link ok 10 # skip: no link ok 11 # skip: no link ok 12 # skip: no link ok 13 # skip: no link ok 14 # skip: no fchmod ok 15 # skip: no fchmod ok 16 # skip: no fchmod ok 17 # skip: no fchmod ok 18 # skip: no fchmod ok 19 # skip: no fchown ok 20 - fchmod is unimplemented ok 21 - fchown is unimplemented ok 22 - rename a b ok 23 - ino of renamed file a should be undef ok 24 - utime ok 25 - non-zero inode num # atime - 500003601 mtime - 500003601 delta - 1 not ok 26 - atime # Failed at io/fs.t line 255 # got '500003601' # expected '500000001' not ok 27 - mtime # Failed at io/fs.t line 256 # got '500003601' # expected '500000001' ok 28 - unlink b ok 29 - ino of unlinked file b should be undef ok 30 # skip: Win32/Netware specific test ok 31 # skip: Win32/Netware specific test ok 32 - truncation to five bytes ok 33 - truncation to zero bytes ok 34 - fh resize to 200 ok 35 - fh resize to 200 working (filename check) ok 36 - fh resize to zero ok 37 - fh resize to zero working (filename check) ok 38 - fh resize by IO slot ok 39 - fh resize by IO slot working ok 40 - rename working ok 41 - rename on directories ok 42 - rename on directories working Any views expressed in this message are those of the sender and not necessarily those of CCA Group. The unauthorized use, disclosure, copying or alteration of this message is forbidden. The contents of this message may be confidential and/or privileged, copyright CCA Group and are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. Whilst this message has been scanned, CCA Group cannot guarantee that it is virus free or compatible with your systems and accepts no responsibility for any loss or damage arising from its use. The recipient is advised to run their own anti-virus software. If you receive this message in error please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] immediately, destroy any copies and delete it from your computer systems.