Re: Test errors for 5.8.3
At 10:25 PM -0400 4/7/04, John E. Malmberg wrote: Craig A. Berry wrote: If there is a discrepancy between your current offset from UTC and your timezone rule, then something that is explicitly testing that the two are in synch may run into problems. Anything that uses UTC or offsets from it (in short, anything using the standard C library functions) would have the same problem during the window between the time change and the system clock being reset. The actual problem is that there are multiple independent ways of specifying the offset from the local time to UTC on OpenVMS for historical reasons. I had a conversation with the editor of the OpenVMS FAQ about this today, and there will likely be an update to at least the OpenVMS FAQ. The bottom line is to prevent problems, if you are not changing to/from DST at the exact time that the timezone rule states, you need to use the ZIC utility to create a new timezone. Good to know about. Just to be clear, the particular problem that manifested itself is something that happens when running the Perl test suite (specifically [.lib]vmsish.t) during the window between the DST change and the clock reset. vmsish.t uses the logical name SYS$TIMEZONE_DIFFERENTIAL as a base for comparison to test various timezone-related functions in Perl, which are in turn (usually) based on CRTL functions.* I think the safest thing to say is that running the test during this window is unsupported. *For ancient CRTLs that have a non-functioning gmtime(), Perl does its best to determine the timezone offset using SYS$TIMEZONE_DIFFERENTIAL, and if it can't do that because the logical is not defined, it assumes the local time is UTC. Perl also has rudimentary timezone rule parsing capabilities, again for very ancient CRTLs. I leave the definition of ancient intentionally ambiguous since I don't know at what point in the century previous to ours these CRTL issues were resolved. -- Craig A. Berry mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ... getting out of a sonnet is much more difficult than getting in. Brad Leithauser
configure -s option incompatible with /output=log.file
It appears that the configure -s option is incompatible with having the
configure script being run from a wrapper command file with the output
redirected to a log file.
Removing the -s option results in prompts to continue.
For example for a command file:
$!
$if f$search(''build_disk'[''root']config.h) .eqs.
$then
$show time
$ @'build_disk'['root']configure.com -de
$! @build_root:['root']configure.com -Dusevmsdebug -de
$show time
$endif
EAGLE @LOCAL_ROOT:[00]build_gnv_perl.com/out=build.log
Type carriage return to continue
Type carriage return to continue
Type carriage return to continue
-John
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[PATCH RC1] install reentr.(inc|h) on VMS with non-threaded Perl
I've tested extension building against an installed copy of the release candidate in a non-threaded configuration and it fails because reentr.inc is included unconditionally even when threads are not enabled: #include reentr.inc .^ %CC-F-NOINCLFILEF, Cannot find file reentr.inc specified in #include directive. at line number 3600 in file PERL_ROOT:[LIB.VMS_AXP.5_8_4.CORE]perl.h;1 I'm pretty sure this is different from how it used to be, but in any case the attached patch unconditionally copies both reentr.inc and reentr.h to the archcore directory, from whence installperl will pick them up and install them. This is only for maint; blead will need something different as it appears there is no longer a reentr.inc there. --- vms/descrip_mms.template;-0 Thu Apr 8 12:15:57 2004 +++ vms/descrip_mms.templateThu Apr 8 15:37:04 2004 @@ -293,11 +293,7 @@ ac7 = $(ARCHCORE)pad.h $(ARCHCORE)patchlevel.h $(ARCHCORE)perl.h ac8 = $(ARCHCORE)perlapi.h $(ARCHCORE)perlio.h $(ARCHCORE)perlsdio.h ac9 = $(ARCHCORE)perlsfio.h $(ARCHCORE)perlvars.h $(ARCHCORE)perly.h $(ARCHCORE)pp.h -.ifdef THREADED ac10 = $(ARCHCORE)pp_proto.h $(ARCHCORE)proto.h $(ARCHCORE)reentr.h $(ARCHCORE)reentr.inc $(ARCHCORE)regcomp.h -.else -ac10 = $(ARCHCORE)pp_proto.h $(ARCHCORE)proto.h $(ARCHCORE)regcomp.h -.endif ac11 = $(ARCHCORE)regexp.h $(ARCHCORE)regnodes.h $(ARCHCORE)scope.h .ifdef SOCKARCH ac12 = $(ARCHCORE)sv.h $(ARCHCORE)thrdvar.h $(SOCKARCH) @@ -1392,14 +1388,12 @@ $(ARCHCORE)proto.h : proto.h @ If F$Search($(ARCHDIR)CORE.dir).eqs. Then Create/Directory $(ARCHCORE) Copy/NoConfirm/Log $(MMS$SOURCE) $(ARCHCORE) -.ifdef THREADED $(ARCHCORE)reentr.h : reentr.h @ If F$Search($(ARCHDIR)CORE.dir).eqs. Then Create/Directory $(ARCHCORE) Copy/NoConfirm/Log $(MMS$SOURCE) $(ARCHCORE) $(ARCHCORE)reentr.inc : reentr.inc @ If F$Search($(ARCHDIR)CORE.dir).eqs. Then Create/Directory $(ARCHCORE) Copy/NoConfirm/Log $(MMS$SOURCE) $(ARCHCORE) -.endif $(ARCHCORE)regcomp.h : regcomp.h @ If F$Search($(ARCHDIR)CORE.dir).eqs. Then Create/Directory $(ARCHCORE) Copy/NoConfirm/Log $(MMS$SOURCE) $(ARCHCORE)
