Re: lib/test/simple/t/create.t help with VMS issue needed.

2005-08-16 Thread PPrymmer
sebb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 08/15/2005 08:34:31 PM: Would it not be better to fix the VMS Perl open() call so it works the same as on other OSes? I meant for READ access only here. The performance impact of altering perl's open() to use the CRTL shr would be significant. Ordinary

Re: [ANNOUNCE] ExtUtils::MakeMaker 6.26_01

2005-03-30 Thread PPrymmer
Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 03/29/2005 05:23:16 PM: Yes it is. That indicates the test module never got built. Doesn't say why though... If you're feeling adventurous could you step into setup() on line 25 of PL_FILES.t and poke around? One could either modify setup or

Re: [ANNOUNCE] ExtUtils::MakeMaker 6.26_01

2005-03-29 Thread PPrymmer
..NOK 3# got: '256' # expected: '0' # make: Fatal error: No arguments to build # Current working directory /home/pprymmer/testit/ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.26 _01/t # Failed test (t/PL_FILES.t at line 41) t/PL_FILES..NOK 4# Failed test (t/PL_FILES.t at line 41

Re: [ANNOUNCE] ExtUtils::MakeMaker 6.25_08

2005-02-18 Thread PPrymmer
Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 02/08/2005 09:31:48 AM: Its time for another MakeMaker alpha! This one is mostly VMS fixes though I also discovered a conflict with Module::Install and undid an accidental change that broken Archive::Zip. As far as I know all outstanding issues

Re: [ANNOUNCE] ExtUtils::MakeMaker 6.25_06

2005-01-06 Thread PPrymmer
Peter Prymmer/FactSet wrote on 01/05/2005 11:18:01 AM: was buildable by it. If 6.25_08 gets released I'll see about patching it, otherwise I may try to prepare a patch for 6.25_07 (but don't wait too long for me). I have tried to browse over to

Re: [ANNOUNCE] ExtUtils::MakeMaker 6.25_06

2005-01-05 Thread PPrymmer
Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/04/2005 05:12:32 PM: Ahh, $(MMS$SOURCE_LIST) is a list of all dependencies. I think it can be safely removed. The logic is this: if ($self-{MYEXTLIB}) { push(@m,\t,'Library/Object/Replace $(MMS$TARGET) $(OBJECT)',\n); } else {

Re: [ANNOUNCE] ExtUtils::MakeMaker 6.25_06

2005-01-05 Thread PPrymmer
Peter Prymmer/FactSet wrote on 01/05/2005 11:18:01 AM: That is not quite correct. As it turns out $(MMS$SOURCE_LIST) is a comma separated list of filenames without types (in the language of RMS file parsing TYPEs are also known as extensions in the Windows centric world). This difference is

Re: [ANNOUNCE] ExtUtils::MakeMaker 6.25_06

2005-01-04 Thread PPrymmer
Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/04/2005 04:46:54 PM: -$(INST_STATIC) : $(OBJECT) $(MYEXTLIB) $(INST_ARCHAUTODIR)$(DFSEP).exists +$(INST_STATIC) : $(OBJECT) $(MYEXTLIB) '; # If this extension has its own library (eg SDBM_File) # then copy that to $(INST_STATIC)

Re: [ANNOUNCE] ExtUtils::MakeMaker 6.25_06

2005-01-04 Thread PPrymmer
Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/04/2005 04:44:50 PM: On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 12:41:38PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which looks like a problem with DBI code not MakeMaker. Did DBI work with 6.17? DBI 1.45 would build with 6.17, but as Craig pointed out the Makefile.PL

Re: [ANNOUNCE] ExtUtils::MakeMaker 6.25_06

2005-01-03 Thread PPrymmer
Peter Prymmer/FactSet wrote on 12/31/2004 04:36:31 PM: I have not yet found how to fix the .exists into OLB problem nor the trouble with MMS V3.2-01 reported earlier. I forgot to mention that *.opt files are not being cleaned on VMS as another problem that persists. I seem to have solved the

Re: [ANNOUNCE] ExtUtils::MakeMaker 6.25_06

2005-01-03 Thread PPrymmer
Peter Prymmer/FactSet wrote on 01/03/2005 10:54:24 AM: I'll see about restoring the cleaning of .opt files next. OK here is a patch that implements this extra clean target file cleanup. --- ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6_25_07/lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm;-3Mon Jan 3 10:43:10 2005 +++

Re: [ANNOUNCE] ExtUtils::MakeMaker 6.25_06

2005-01-03 Thread PPrymmer
Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/01/2005 07:38:57 PM: My bad. I left in a / when I unified the VMS tool_xsubpp(). Its better solved by changing $(XSUBPPDIR)/xsbupp to $(XSUBPPDIR)$(DFSEP)xsubpp. I can confirm that this solution would be fine for VMS since DFSEP contains an

Re: [ANNOUNCE] ExtUtils::MakeMaker 6.25_07

2005-01-03 Thread PPrymmer
Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/01/2005 06:50:43 PM: I don't quite understand what 6.17 has to do with it. MakeMaker builds itself using itself, not the installed version. Sorry - I did not realize that. With that installed a second attempt to build it with mms 3.2-01

Re: [ANNOUNCE] ExtUtils::MakeMaker 6.25_07

2005-01-03 Thread PPrymmer
Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/03/2005 02:41:17 PM: Do these guys charge for upgrades or something? They might. Peter Prymmer

Re: [ANNOUNCE] ExtUtils::MakeMaker 6.25_06

2004-12-31 Thread PPrymmer
Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 12/29/2004 10:33:02 PM: Its also hideously insecure. You're running a shell script that could do anything. A problem with any self-extracting archive. From shar(1). SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS It is easy to insert trojan horses into shar

Re: [ANNOUNCE] ExtUtils::MakeMaker 6.25_06

2004-12-31 Thread PPrymmer
H.Merijn Brand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 12/30/2004 03:32:31 AM: On Wed 29 Dec 2004 19:49, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Craig A. Berry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 12/29/2004 01:09:58 PM: 4.) The following macro is defined and is used in the shdist target: SHAR = vms_share There is

Re: [ANNOUNCE] ExtUtils::MakeMaker 6.25_06

2004-12-31 Thread PPrymmer
Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 12/30/2004 03:55:15 PM: Try out the attached patch. With the patch applied I obtained a bare bones mmk test result: All tests successful, 7 tests and 91 subtests skipped. Files=38, Tests=633, 239 wallclock secs ( 0.00 cusr + 0.00 csys = 0.00 CPU)

Re: [ANNOUNCE] ExtUtils::MakeMaker 6.25_07

2004-12-31 Thread PPrymmer
Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 12/31/2004 03:59:29 AM: http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/src/ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.25_07.tar.gz Test obtained. First using perl 5.8.6 and mmk V3.9-6: All tests successful, 7 tests and 94 subtests skipped. Files=38, Tests=639, 239 wallclock secs ( 0.00

Re: [ANNOUNCE] ExtUtils::MakeMaker 6.25_06

2004-12-31 Thread PPrymmer
Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 12/30/2004 05:22:30 PM: On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 04:47:18PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I might even get to my big module collection test with this Wait for the next alpha. I have to fix that IGNORE problem first. Warning: this message

Re: [ANNOUNCE] ExtUtils::MakeMaker 6.25_06

2004-12-31 Thread PPrymmer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 12/31/2004 12:41:38 PM: I hope that provides some useful feedback. Sorry I do not yet have a path for the XSUBPP problems on VMS. One other oddity noted with 6.25_07: $ mmk distclean snippage Not in MANIFEST: dbi.opt I am fairly certain that it used to be able to

Re: [ANNOUNCE] ExtUtils::MakeMaker 6.25_06

2004-12-31 Thread PPrymmer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 12/31/2004 01:01:12 PM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 12/31/2004 12:41:38 PM: I hope that provides some useful feedback. Sorry I do not yet have a path for the XSUBPP problems on VMS. One other oddity noted with 6.25_07: Here is another oddity. The .exists files

Re: [ANNOUNCE] ExtUtils::MakeMaker 6.25_06

2004-12-31 Thread PPrymmer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 12/31/2004 01:01:12 PM: One other oddity noted with 6.25_07: $ mmk distclean snippage Not in MANIFEST: dbi.opt I am fairly certain that it used to be able to delete the linker options files that it wrote out before. I failed to mention this one before but it

Re: [ANNOUNCE] ExtUtils::MakeMaker 6.25_06

2004-12-31 Thread PPrymmer
Craig A. Berry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 12/31/2004 03:34:14 PM: I think this one is an old problem specific to DBI, and IIRC it's because it expects dbiproxy.PL to be a different file from dbiproxy.pl. Indeed it seems that this is the case. I am sorry for having reported a spurious problem

Re: [ANNOUNCE] ExtUtils::MakeMaker 6.25_06

2004-12-31 Thread PPrymmer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 12/31/2004 12:41:38 PM: This is beginning to look like a problem with the XSUBPP macros. I've found a workwaround for this specific problem that I'll enclose as a diff. Since an OS specific hack inside of MM_Unix.pm seems completely counter to the whole put overrides

Re: [ANNOUNCE] ExtUtils::MakeMaker 6.25_06

2004-12-29 Thread PPrymmer
Craig A. Berry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 12/29/2004 01:09:58 PM: 4.) The following macro is defined and is used in the shdist target: SHAR = vms_share There is no such native command as vms_share. If I knew more about the intention, I might be able to suggest an alternative. shar on unix

Re: [ANNOUNCE] ExtUtils::MakeMaker 6.25_01

2004-12-19 Thread PPrymmer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 12/18/2004 08:31:28 AM: On VMS V7.3-2, Compaq C S6.5-002, MadGoat Make Utility V3.9-6, against perl 5.8.1: All tests successful, 7 tests and 87 subtests skipped. Files=36, Tests=603, 156 wallclock secs ( 0.00 cusr + 0.00 csys = 0.00 CPU) Later I'll try some

Re: [ANNOUNCE] ExtUtils::MakeMaker 6.25_01

2004-12-18 Thread PPrymmer
Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 12/17/2004 09:41:47 PM: http://svn.schwern.org/svn/CPAN/ExtUtils-MakeMaker/trunk or svn://svn.schwern.org/CPAN/ExtUtils-MakeMaker/trunk or http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/src/ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.25_01.tar.gz or a CPAN near you. Kicked out an

Re: [PATCH] Detecting strlcat() and strlcpy() in Configure

2004-11-01 Thread PPrymmer
H.Merijn Brand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 11/01/2004 09:57:06 AM: On Sat 30 Oct 2004 19:42, H.Merijn Brand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri 29 Oct 2004 04:58, Steve Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since I don't know what VMS actually has, and configure.com doesn't have commented out lines,

Re: [PATCH] readdir_r for VMS (was Re: [PATCH] configure.com: sig_num, etc.)

2003-03-24 Thread PPrymmer
Craig Berry wrote: !To really stress test this with multiple threads going after the same !directory stream I'd need an SMP machine to test on, which I don't have. !But I think we are at least somewhat safer than we were before. Can you specify which thread option to configure.com to use? Also:

Re: ext/Encode/t/perlio on VMS (was Re: perl@16539)

2002-05-21 Thread PPrymmer
Dan the Encode Maintainer wrote: !-ST(0) = PL_sv_no; !+/* ST(0) = PL_sv_no; */ !+ST(0) = PL_sv_yes; ! XSRETURN(1); ! } ! !Even if it works, I do not consider this to be a radical cure. But a !cure nonetheless ! !BTW, what is the most concise way to check the architecture