My research was right.  You *can't* mix Unix and VMS style include
paths on VMS.  It will just dumbly concatinate them.

    CC/DECC /include=[.include]

Result:  [.include]parrot/parrot.h  *wrong*

    CC/DECC /include="./include"

Result: ./include/parrot/parrot.h   *right*

Perl5 simply avoids ever using '#include "foo/bar.h"' syntax except in
one instance (SDBM_File) where the include directory is the cwd, so it
works by luck.


So this patch gets VMS past Configure and it immediately vomits
because of a syntax error in the descrip.mms

$ mmk
%MMK-F-PARSERR, error parsing description line mops: examples/assembly/mopsexe 
examples/mops/mopsexe
-MMK-I-ERRLOC, at line number 148 in file USER1:[SCHWERN.SRC.PARROT]MAKEFILE.;7
-LIB-F-SYNTAXERR, string syntax error detected by LIB$TPARSE



--- hints/vms.pl        4 Jan 2002 17:39:29 -0000       1.5
+++ hints/vms.pl        1 Apr 2002 18:48:40 -0000
@@ -1,8 +1,10 @@
 use Cwd;
-$c{ccflags} = 
"/Standard=Relaxed_ANSI/Prefix=All/Obj=.obj/NoList/NOANSI_ALIAS/include=([.include],\"/here\")";
+$c{ccflags} = 
+qq{/Standard=Relaxed_ANSI/Prefix=All/Obj=.obj/NoList/NOANSI_ALIAS/include="./include"};
+
 if (!defined $c{exe}) {
   $c{exe} = "exe";
 }
+
 {
        local $^W;              #no warnings on redefinition
 
@@ -10,8 +12,11 @@
                my $name;
                $name = shift;
                $name = "test" unless $name;
-               system("$c{cc} $c{ccflags} $name.c") and die "C compiler died!";
-               system("link/exe=test_siz $name") and die "Link failed!";
+        my $cmd = "$c{cc} $c{ccflags} $name.c";
+               system($cmd) and die "C compiler died!  Command was '$cmd'";
+
+        $cmd = "link/exe=test_siz $name";
+               system($cmd) and die "Link failed!  Command was '$cmd'";
        };
 
        *runtestc=sub {

-- 

Michael G. Schwern   <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>    http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/
Perl Quality Assurance      <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>         Kwalitee Is Job One
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