From: John E. Malmberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Paul Marquess wrote: > > From: Craig A. Berry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >>At 2:25 PM +0000 3/12/06, Paul Marquess wrote: > >> > >>>From: John E. Malmberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>> > >>> > >>>>The test scripts: > >>>> > >>>>ext/Compress/Zlib/t/05examples.t and > >>>>ext/Compress/IO/Zlib/t/010examples.t are both failing on OpenVMS > >>>>apparently because they can not find the file: > >>>>auto/Compress/Raw/Zlib/autosplit.ix. > >>>> > >>>>The only place I can find a like file is in > >>>>auto/Compress/ZLIB/autosplit.ix. > >>> > >>>Hmmm, not sure what is going on there. > >> > >>I'm not seeing any Compress::Zlib failures in blead on VMS, so John's > >>set-up must be different from mine or the build directory needs some > >>clean-up. > > > > It could be another ripple for the monster C::Zlib patch I posted last > week > > that moved lots of files around and anyone (myself included) that didn't > > have their rsync setup correctly ended up with a mish-mash of the before > and > > after C::Z directory tree. > > I was afraid of that. I guess I need to do a massive delete of that > tree and then refresh it and see if that helps. Yep, sounds like a good plan. > My port of rsync to OpenVMS still needs some work to make it reliable. :-( > > I found it usually works on small numbers of files with the > --ignore_existing option. > > >>>>ext/Compress/IO/Zlib/t/050interop-gzip.t requires either a shell like > >>>>bash or use of Perl as a shell for the I/O redirection to work. > >>> > >>>Is any I/O redirection available on OpenVMS or is it just piping that > >>>doesn't work? > >>> > >>>For example, would this work? > >>> > >>> system "gzip -c infile >outfile"; > >> > >>Not unless the gzip program had been built with its own redirection > >>(like Perl has). To get redirection from the shell you have to use > >>the pipe command: > >> > >>$ pipe show time > foo.tmp > >>$ type foo.tmp > >> 12-MAR-2006 12:05:04 > > I do not know if the pipe command is available on all the versions of > OpenVMS that Perl is currently building on. > > > Would it be better then to just disable the tests that run an external > gzip > > on VMS? > > I would rather get the redirection to work. It appears that when > vmspipe.com is being used, what vms.c needs to create a symbol named > perl_popen_out with the file specification, and the output will be > properly redirected. > > It looks like the external gzip tests are only run if /bin/gzip is found > by some test. All I do is walk the PATH and for an executable called 'gzip'. > I have other applications that need this to work. OK, I'll leave it as it is for now then. Will the redirection fix make this problem go away for VMS, or will the test script need to be smart enough to know when to disable itself? Paul
