Ed James wrote:
> I have been working on getting 5.6.0, using the information on Chuck Lane's
> web page at http://www.crinoid.com/perl560.htmlx. I answered configure.com
> questions with defaults except:
>
> Configuration:
>
> Build VMS-Debug version: Y
> Always use default file types: Y
>
> The build went ok and the test all were successfull. Then I did:
>
> $ mmk/macro=("__DEBUG__=1") install
> %DCL-I-SUPERSEDE, previous value of PERL_ROOT has been superseded
> %DCL-I-SUPERSEDE, previous value of DBGPERLSHR has been superseded
> If F$TrnLnm("Sys") .nes. "" Then Deass SYS
> MCR Sys$Disk:[]miniperl.exe "-I[.lib]" installperl
> perl isn't executable!
> %RMS-E-FNF, file not found
> %MMK-F-ERRUPD, error status %X00018292 occurred when updating target INSTALL
> $
>
> Which makes since, sort of, because of this:
>
> $ dy *.exe
>
> Directory BEAST$DRA4:[JAMESE.PERL-5_6_0]
>
> DBGMINIPERL.EXE;1 5417/5420 000511 14190998 000511 14192115
> DBGPERL.EXE;1 45/48 000511 14211286 000511 14211315
> DBGPERLSHR.EXE;1 5667/5668 000511 14205998 000511 14211174
> MINIPERL.EXE;1 3152/3152 000511 14192509 000511 14193073
> NDBGPERL.EXE;2 8/8 000511 14304261 000511 14304274
> NDBGPERL.EXE;1 8/8 000511 14211337 000511 14211350
>
> Total of 6 files, 14297/14304 blocks.
>
> Do I need to rename/copy some of these to perl.exe and perlshr.exe?
If you wanted to install the VMS debug enabled binaries then I think the
answer to that would be "yes", but it is highly unlikely that you would
want to install VMS debug enabled binaries since they would be slower
than non debug enabled binaries. However, see the important caveat below.
> Do I need to re-Configure.com with "Build VMS-Debug version: N" ?
That would be a better way to try it. Be sure to answer the "Where install?"
question carefully and to check the PERL_ROOT logical with:
$ @ perl_setup
$ show logical PERL_ROOT
before you type:
$ mms install
that is, is PERL_ROOT defined to be where you want to place perl?
It will default to BEAST$DRA4:[JAMESE.PERL-5_6_0.] but you may
want to DEFINE it to point elsewhere.
Hope that helps.
Peter Prymmer
