The attached patch against the latest MakeMaker snapshot gets all tests
passing even on older VMS systems with rather severe limitations to
directory depth. Only minor modifications to t/basic.t were necessary. I
used Perl 5.8.4.
As far as I know, this was the last impediment to getting 6.22 out the
door, into bleadperl, and from thence into 5.8.5.
--- t/basic.t;-0 Tue Nov 4 00:19:55 2003
+++ t/basic.t Fri May 28 23:08:34 2004
@@ -48,8 +48,10 @@
ok( chdir('Big-Dummy'), "chdir'd to Big-Dummy" ) ||
diag("chdir failed: $!");
-my @mpl_out = run(qq{$perl Makefile.PL "PREFIX=../dummy-install"});
-END { rmtree '../dummy-install'; }
+my $dummy_install = $Is_VMS ? 'BFD_TEST_ROOT:[dummy-install]' : '../dummy-install';
+
+my @mpl_out = run(qq{$perl Makefile.PL "PREFIX=$dummy_install"});
+END { rmtree $dummy_install; }
cmp_ok( $?, '==', 0, 'Makefile.PL exited with zero' ) ||
diag(@mpl_out);
@@ -130,12 +132,12 @@
like( $install_out, qr/^Installing /m );
like( $install_out, qr/^Writing /m );
-ok( -r '../dummy-install', ' install dir created' );
+ok( -r $dummy_install, ' install dir created' );
my %files = ();
find( sub {
# do it case-insensitive for non-case preserving OSs
$files{lc $_} = $File::Find::name;
-}, '../dummy-install' );
+}, $dummy_install );
ok( $files{'dummy.pm'}, ' Dummy.pm installed' );
ok( $files{'liar.pm'}, ' Liar.pm installed' );
ok( $files{'.packlist'}, ' packlist created' );
@@ -143,7 +145,7 @@
SKIP: {
- skip "VMS install targets do not preserve $(PREFIX)", 8 if $Is_VMS;
+ skip "VMS install targets do not preserve \$(PREFIX)", 8 if $Is_VMS;
$install_out = run("$make install PREFIX=elsewhere");
is( $?, 0, 'install with PREFIX override' ) || diag $install_out;
@@ -162,7 +164,7 @@
SKIP: {
- skip "VMS install targets do not preserve $(DESTDIR)", 10 if $Is_VMS;
+ skip "VMS install targets do not preserve \$(DESTDIR)", 10 if $Is_VMS;
$install_out = run("$make install PREFIX= DESTDIR=other");
is( $?, 0, 'install with DESTDIR' ) ||
@@ -202,7 +204,7 @@
SKIP: {
- skip "VMS install targets do not preserve $(PREFIX)", 9 if $Is_VMS;
+ skip "VMS install targets do not preserve \$(PREFIX)", 9 if $Is_VMS;
$install_out = run("$make install PREFIX=elsewhere DESTDIR=other/");
is( $?, 0, 'install with PREFIX override and DESTDIR' ) ||
@@ -260,7 +262,7 @@
# Make sure init_dirscan doesn't go into the distdir
[EMAIL PROTECTED] = run(qq{$perl Makefile.PL "PREFIX=../dummy-install"});
[EMAIL PROTECTED] = run(qq{$perl Makefile.PL "PREFIX=$dummy_install"});
cmp_ok( $?, '==', 0, 'Makefile.PL exited with zero' ) || diag(@mpl_out);
