At 12:30 PM 3/6/00 -0500, Jerome LAURET wrote:
> Hello there,
>
> Here we go : another OpenVMS7.2 problem but related to
>perl this time so I thought that this group would be able to
>answer this quickly.
>
> I am using perl version 5.004_04 built on VMS_AXP.
> I haven't recompiled perl since a long time ...
> I haven't added any module for some time.
> It used to work all fine and nicely.
7.2, or 7.2-1 with patches? I've got the same setup here (5.004_04 built
for who knows what version of VMS, VMS 7.2-1, CGI) that works fine.
> Now if I do
>$ perl -e "use CGI;" ! Some scripts uses this
>
> I get
>
>Fatal VMS error (status=100052)
Hmmm. %RMS-F-SYN, file specification syntax error.
Apparently it doesn't like the \ in there.
> at PERL_ROOT:[000000]VMS.C;1, line 3700 at
>/perl_root/lib/CGI.pm line 2735.
>BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at -e line 1.
>
> I do not have the source anymore
It's blowing chunks in cando_by_name
>but the CGI.pm says
>on that line :
> do {$TMPDIRECTORY = $_; last} if -d $_ && -w _;
>
> the returned directory is \usr\tmp\var\tmp\tmp (??) and
>individual test -e/-w would be a success on such directory.
>
> Any idea of what's going on and/or how to patch it ?
Try editing line 95 and change this:
VMS=>'\\'
to this:
VMS=>'/'
and see if it works better. Also, do you have a TMP, TEMP, VAR, or USR
logical? And does this maybe have its home on an ODS-5 disk?
Dan
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