On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Craig A. Berry wrote:
> At 02:29 PM 8/15/2000 -0700, Peter Prymmer wrote:
> >Can't locate VMS/Filespec.pm in @INC (@INC contains: lib/VMS_AXP lib
>
> [snip]
>
> >%RMS-E-FNF, file not found
> >%MMS-F-ABORT, For target [.LIB]DYNALOADER.PM, CLI returned abort status:
> >%X00018
> >292.
> >-RMS-E-FNF, file not found
>
> I'm pretty sure this is something I've been seeing occasionally in all recent
>development kits. It may have to do with the ordering of the LIBPREREQ target in
>descrip_mms.template since Dynaloader depends on VMS::Filespec but comes before it in
>the list. As a workaround you can try explicitly building the [.lib.VMS]Filespec.pm
>target, then rebuild the whole thing and see if that took care of it. I haven't
>posted before since I'm not sure yet whether we should reorder LIBPREREQ (possibly
>just shuffling the problem elsewhere) or add a new dependency for Dynaloader/Filespec.
>
> FWIW, I only saw the problem on a VMS 7.2-1 system but not on a 7.1 system, both
>using MMK. This was back around 6429 or so.
Bingo. In fact I am working on a patch for this right now.
I am glad to hear that MMK encounters a similar fate.
After I get a successful build (knock on wood) I'll post a patch to
vms/descrip_mms.template.
Peter Prymmer
