Hello,
simple question, what is the status of Perl/Tk on OpenVMS? I've tried to
install Tk800.022 on OpenVMS Alpha with Perl 5.6.1. FWIW the same
combination works fine on my Linux laptop. Since there were discussions
about this on this list earlier and the Changes file of Perl/Tk has a
VMS specific entry as recently as Tk800.021 I guess it should
be possible to get this working. Unfortunatly already the first step
of a classical Perl-Module installation fails:
$ perl Makefile.PL
Cannot find 'perl_root:[lib.VMS_AXP.5_6_1]/CORE/perl.h' have you
installed dsa0:[public.][aexe]perl.exe;3?
Compilation failed in require at makefile.pl line 17.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at makefile.pl line 19.
%RMS-F-SYN, file specification syntax error
which looks like a goof in the myconfig (which is called from
Makefile.PL), since the file (with the corrected path translation for
OpenVMS!) is there:
$ dir perl_root:[lib.vms_axp.5_6_1.core]perl.h
Directory PERL_ROOT:[LIB.VMS_AXP.5_6_1.CORE]
PERL.H;1 181/198 17-APR-2001 15:24:33.60
Total of 1 file, 181/198 blocks.
Now I could start to tamper with myconfig and try to go from there,
but maybe someone already went this way and knows the magic
incantations ?
Greetings, Martin
