Folks,
Jarkko has now shut the door on all but show stopper bugs
for the release of 5.7.0. You can pick up a pre-release
test kit from either of these URLS:
http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I just had a chance to test `mms install` with a non-default
prefix using the slightly older 6996 kit. I configured
with:
create /dir [pinst]
set default [perl]
@configure "-des" "-Dusedevel" "-Dprefix=""DKA100:[PINST.]"""
mms
mms test ! two failures for storable as reported
mms install
And note the two blemishes in the output of the latter:
$ mms install
%DCL-I-SUPERSEDE, previous value of PERL_ROOT has been superseded
%DCL-I-SUPERSEDE, previous value of PERLSHR has been superseded
If F$TrnLnm("Sys") .nes. "" Then Deass SYS
MCR Sys$Disk:[]miniperl.exe "-I[.lib]" installperl
WARNING: You've never run 'make test'!!! (Installing anyway.)
/perl_root/000000/perl.exe
/perl_root/000000/perlshr.exe
/perl_root/lib/abbrev.pl
<snip>
/perl_root/lib/vms/filespec.pm
/perl_root/lib/vms/stdio.pm
Can't cd to (./) user : no such file or directory
/perl_root/lib/unicode/arablink.pl
/perl_root/lib/unicode/arablnkgrp.pl
the first of these is because we on VMS do not provide a file to
indicate that testing has completed like they do on unix.
The can't cd problem is lurking in installperl or some module.
Nevertheless the kit appears quite usable:
$ @[perl]perl_setup
%DCL-I-SUPERSEDE, previous value of PERL_ROOT has been superseded
%DCL-I-SUPERSEDE, previous value of PERLSHR has been superseded
$ sho log perl_root
"PERL_ROOT" = "DKA100:[PINST.]" (LNM$PROCESS_TABLE)
$ perl "-MMath::Trig" -e "print 'hello world'"
hello world
So please have a crack at the 7002 (or later) kit and let us
know of any difficulties you encounter.
Peter Prymmer
P.S. A big and hearty *thank you* to Craig Berry for all the work
with storable, File::Temp, vmspipe, vms.c in general, etc.
Many thanks.
