"Craig A. Berry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I just tried to do an "mmk install" with 5.6.0 plus Charles Lane's patches
> and mine. The first thing I noticed is that README.VMS is no longer correct
> in saying that you can define PERL_ROOT and then do an install because the
> install target runs PERL_SETUP.COM and overrides whatever you've defined it
> to.
Sure you can define PERL_ROOT...it just won't do anything for you :)
> Having to know where you are going to install at configure time seems a
> bit odd to me, but I guess it's easy enough to edit PERL_SETUP.COM later as
> long as we tell folks that's what they have to do. I have a vague memory
> this was discussed before but can't find where at the moment.
Yeah, I tried a "install" myself...just to see what it was like and to
find out how sensitive the build/test/install stuff was on having PERL_ROOT
defined, and if it would work with the VMSPIPE stuff. And it did indeed
work for me.
> After doing that edit myself, I get boatloads of the following errors:
>
> cp /perl_root/lib/VMS_AXP/5_6_0/CORE/
> creating new version of /perl_root/lib/VMS_AXP/5_6_0/CORE/
> Couldn't copy to /perl_root/lib/VMS_AXP/5_6_0/CORE/: invalid argument
> chmod 444 /perl_root/lib/VMS_AXP/5_6_0/CORE/
> Couldn't chmod 444 /perl_root/lib/VMS_AXP/5_6_0/CORE/: no such file or directory
> installperl: not found at installperl line 650.
For the copy, it looks like it was trying to create "core.dir;2" and
failed. Was there already a directory tree in place and you were
installing over it?
It's also a bit suspicious having the trailing slashes...that's
generally an error for VMS, we catch it for chdir() calls IIRC, but
maybe not other places.
> Then it helpfully tells me both "Installation complete" and
> "%MMK-I-ACTNOUPD, action did not update target INSTALL." I got the same
> thing running with BYPASS so I know it's not a file protection issue. The
> directory in question exists. My guess would be the file copy is in a
> subprocess of a subprocess and has somehow lost track of the perl_root logical.
Doubt it, lots more stuff would break if PERL_ROOT wasn't being inherited.
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