On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Craig A. Berry wrote:
> At 5:40 PM -0400 8/31/00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ed James,
> 410-295-1919, ed.james@t wrote:
> >"mmk install" gives these errors: (carriage returns inserted)
>
> Ed,
>
> I think you also want to drop in File::Spec::VMS.pm from a later
> release, though I don't know whether that will solve the problems you
> are seeing.
>
> I think the Perl script installperl is broken in 5.5_003 and I don't
> think you can simply drop the one in from 5.6.0 because some config
> item names have changed ('arch' to 'archname' or something like
> that). Actually it may still be broken in 5.6.0 -- I patched it at
> some point and can't remember exactly when. You could look at the
> vms-specific bits of installperl from a recent development release and
I recall having done an `mms install` with a non-default PERL_ROOT on
one of the perl@6xxx kits and I had to patch installperl but it has been
a while since I have tested that so I should probably check it again.
> The Perl-style installation was never tested very well because a lot
> of people just use BACKUP to make a snapshot of the Perl source; the
> only real disadvantage of this is that it doubles the disk space of
> an actual install.
To help remove some of the bloat run:
mms clean
and it will remove *.obj and a few other generated intermediate file
types. However, running `mms install` is still much cleaner.
Peter Prymmer
