I downloaded the archive from perl.com. The url for the archive is
http://www.perl.com/CPAN/src/stable.zip

-----Original Message-----
From: Craig A. Berry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 1:54 PM
To: Bradley, Bruce
Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: Re: Problem Building/compiling Perl 561


At 2:24 PM -0400 7/10/02, Bradley, Bruce wrote:
>I am trying to install perl 5.61 on an Alpha cluster running Open VMS 7.3
>using Compaq C V6.2-003 and MMS V3.4-3 and not having much luck. Any help
>would be appreciated.

The build should work just fine in this environment.  Where did you
download your kit from?


> >MCR $1$dga2:[perl_install.perl561]miniperl.exe "-I[--.lib]" "-I[--.lib]"
>[--.lib.ExtUtils]xsubpp -noprototypes -typemap [--.lib.ExtUtils]typemap
>-typemap typemap POSIX.xs >POSIX.C
>CC/DECC
>/Include=[]/Standard=Relaxed_ANSI/Prefix=All/Obj=.obj/NoList/NOANSI_ALIAS/D
e
>fine=("VERSION=""1.03""","XS_VERSION=""1.03""")/Include=([--])/Optimize
>POSIX.c
>
>    char *  buffer = sv_grow( sv_buffer, nbytes+1 );
>                          .............................................^
>%CC-W-UNINIT1, The scalar variable "nbytes" is fetched but not initialized.
>And there may be other such fetches of this variable that have not been
>reported in this compilation.
>at line number 4647 in file

That's very odd because nbytes *does* get initialized, unless
something has gone wrong in converting POSIX.xs to POSIX.c.
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