Re: Module::Build on VMS

2007-04-12 Thread John E. Malmberg
Craig Berry wrote: On Wednesday, April 11, 2007, at 09:48AM,\ "John E. Malmberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: VMS does not enforce executables having .EXE extensions. True, but flouting the convention does seem like asking for trouble. The test harness for VMS runs a perl binary with the n

Re: Module::Build on VMS

2007-04-11 Thread Craig Berry
On Wednesday, April 11, 2007, at 12:04PM, "Craig Berry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Wednesday, April 11, 2007, at 09:48AM, "John E. Malmberg" <[EMAIL >PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Andrew Black wrote: >>> print STDERR "*** \$thisperl=$thisperl\n" ; >>> if ($proto->os_type eq 'VMS') { >>>

Re: Module::Build on VMS

2007-04-11 Thread Craig Berry
On Wednesday, April 11, 2007, at 09:48AM, "John E. Malmberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Andrew Black wrote: >> Craig A. Berry wrote: >>> At 9:57 AM + 2/28/07, Andrew Black (delete obvious bit) wrote: Hi A quick progress report. I worked out roughly what is going on but hadn

Re: Module::Build on VMS

2007-04-11 Thread John E. Malmberg
Andrew Black wrote: Craig A. Berry wrote: At 9:57 AM + 2/28/07, Andrew Black (delete obvious bit) wrote: Hi A quick progress report. I worked out roughly what is going on but hadnt had time to write up in more detail. I am now on holiday and don't have access to the machine at work. I

Re: Module::Build on VMS

2007-03-13 Thread Andrew Black
Craig A. Berry wrote: At 9:57 AM + 2/28/07, Andrew Black (delete obvious bit) wrote: Hi A quick progress report. I worked out roughly what is going on but hadnt had time to write up in more detail. I am now on holiday and don't have access to the machine at work. It is doing funny things

Re: Module::Build on VMS

2007-03-12 Thread Craig A. Berry
At 9:57 AM + 2/28/07, Andrew Black (delete obvious bit) wrote: >Hi >A quick progress report. I worked out roughly what is going on but hadnt >had time to write up in more detail. I am now on holiday and don't have >access to the machine at work. > >I will try to get a clearer description by ne

Re: Module::Build on VMS

2007-02-28 Thread Andrew Black (delete obvious bit)
Hi A quick progress report. I worked out roughly what is going on but hadnt had time to write up in more detail. I am now on holiday and don't have access to the machine at work. I will try to get a clearer description by next mon.

Re: Module::Build on VMS

2007-02-13 Thread Craig Berry
On 2/13/07, Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Andrew Black wrote: > Can I run a subset of the make test - it takes me 40 mins to get to the > point of failure (reminds me of batch Fortran jobs at university). First off, use "Build test". Module::Build provides a Makefile.PL/make/make

Re: Module::Build on VMS

2007-02-13 Thread demerphq
On 2/13/07, Rafael Garcia-Suarez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 13/02/07, Andrew Black <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can I run a subset of the make test - it takes me 40 mins to get to the > point of failure (reminds me of batch Fortran jobs at university). on unix, the idiom for that would be :

Re: Module::Build on VMS

2007-02-13 Thread Craig Berry
On 2/13/07, Andrew Black <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi At Nicholas' suggestion I have been looking into why Module::Build is failing test on VMS. My observations are - if you run the MB basic.t in isolation it works. - as part of the full make test it doesn't get off the ground. My observat

Re: Module::Build on VMS

2007-02-13 Thread Michael G Schwern
Andrew Black wrote: > Can I run a subset of the make test - it takes me 40 mins to get to the > point of failure (reminds me of batch Fortran jobs at university). First off, use "Build test". Module::Build provides a Makefile.PL/make/make test/make install for compatibility but to eliminate poss

Re: Module::Build on VMS

2007-02-13 Thread Rafael Garcia-Suarez
On 13/02/07, Andrew Black <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Can I run a subset of the make test - it takes me 40 mins to get to the point of failure (reminds me of batch Fortran jobs at university). on unix, the idiom for that would be : cd t ; ./perl harness or cd t ; ./perl TEST

Re: Module::Build on VMS? (was: blead@26913 on VMS - 1 test failing)

2006-01-20 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 08:48:51AM -0500, John E. Malmberg wrote: > Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > >On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 06:34:30AM -0500, John E. Malmberg wrote: > > > >>lib/ExtUtils/t/ManifestFAILED at test 26 > >> > > > >Would you be able to try out the patch adding

Re: Module::Build on VMS?

2006-01-20 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 04:19:04PM -0500, John E. Malmberg wrote: > Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > >On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 08:48:51AM -0500, John E. Malmberg wrote: > > > >>Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > >> > >>>On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 06:34:30AM -0500, John E. Malmberg wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>

Re: Module::Build on VMS?

2006-01-19 Thread Craig A. Berry
At 1:38 PM -0800 1/19/06, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: >perlport says: > >C<-r>, C<-w>, C<-x>, and C<-o> tell whether the file is accessible, >which may not reflect UIC-based file protections. (VMS) > >but I'm not sure what it means by accessible there. If, for example, I have elevated privile

Re: Module::Build on VMS?

2006-01-19 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 05:10:08PM -0500, John E. Malmberg wrote: > Execute access with out read access allows a program to be run, but no > copies to be made or displayed. This can not currently be done with > Perl scripts on OpenVMS. Doing so would require some changes in Perl > and require

Re: Module::Build on VMS?

2006-01-19 Thread John E. Malmberg
Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 04:19:04PM -0500, John E. Malmberg wrote: Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: Would you be able to try out the patch adding Module::Build? Specifically I was wondering if it would fix the result of the lib/Extutils/t/Manifest.t test. Arrg

Re: Module::Build on VMS?

2006-01-19 Thread John E. Malmberg
Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 08:48:51AM -0500, John E. Malmberg wrote: Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 06:34:30AM -0500, John E. Malmberg wrote: lib/ExtUtils/t/ManifestFAILED at test 26 Would you be able to try out

using GNU patch on VMS (was Re: Module::Build on VMS? (was: blead@26913 on VMS - 1 test failing))

2006-01-19 Thread Craig A. Berry
At 10:47 AM -0500 1/19/06, Peter Prymmer wrote: >\diff -ruN perlpatch.orig/MANIFEST perlpatch/MANIFEST >--- perlpatch.orig/MANIFEST 2006-01-12 19:56:56.0 + >+++ perlpatch/MANIFEST 2006-01-14 01:15:18.547657600 + > >So if I set default to the directory where the MANIFEST. file h

Re: Module::Build on VMS? (was: blead@26913 on VMS - 1 test failing)

2006-01-19 Thread Peter Prymmer
"John E. Malmberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 01/19/2006 08:48:51 AM: > Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > > It's at http://zipcon.net/~sthoenna/mbaddfull123.patch > Is this something to fix this test, or does it add new functionality? > > I have no experience using the patch utility, so I prob