Re: PATCH: 2 vms specific build files in perl @ 27383

[Peter Prymmer]

Peter Prymmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 03/07/2006 11:42:38 PM:


> Sorry but I have made no progress on this problem.  I am concerned.

I now suspect that there is a VMS specific bug in File::Path::mkpath.
If I add a diagnostic print statement to that module like so:

$ gdiff -u [.lib.file]path.pm [.lib.file]path.pm;1
--- [.lib.file]path.pm  Wed Mar  8 16:25:15 2006
+++ [.lib.file]path.pm;1        Wed Sep  7 10:59:46 2005
@@ -168,7 +168,6 @@
        next if -d $path;
        my $parent = File::Basename::dirname($path);
        unless (-d $parent or $path eq $parent) {
-print "\$parent = >$parent<, \$path = >$path<\n";
            push(@created,mkpath($parent, $verbose, $mode));
        }
        print "mkdir $path\n" if $verbose;

Then when I run "mmk install" I see:

$parent = >/perl_root<, $path = >/perl_root/000000<
$parent = >/perl_root<, $path = >/perl_root/000000<
$parent = >/perl_root<, $path = >/perl_root/000000<
$parent = >/perl_root<, $path = >/perl_root/000000<

and clearly too many things are being pushed onto the @created array.

While I do not yet have a fix I can workaround the problem
if I issue the shell command:

create/dir dka300:[user.pprymmer.bleed_root]

prior to running "mmk install" from within dka300:[user.pprymmer.bleed].

Even with that workaround there are some lingering problems 
with chmod() calls to files that apparently
are not copied into my new perl_root (but really are). 
For example during the course of the run of "mmk install" I see:

  /perl_root/lib/archive/tar/constant.pm
  /perl_root/lib/archive/tar/file.pm
  /perl_root/lib/archive/tar/bin/ptar.
Couldn't chmod 444 /perl_root/lib/VMS_AXP/5_9_4/auto/compress/zlib: no 
such file or directory

then when that finishes I see:

$ dir/date/size perl_root:[lib.VMS_AXP.5_9_4.auto.compress]zlib*.*

Directory PERL_ROOT:[LIB.VMS_AXP.5_9_4.AUTO.COMPRESS]

ZLIB.DIR;1                 1   8-MAR-2006 16:50:53.18
ZLIB.EXE;1               237  21-JUN-2005 13:31:04.51

Total of 2 files, 238 blocks.

Peter Prymmer