I did have problems unzipping on VMS (it put <CR> in all the files) So I downloaded and unzipped the archive on my Windozes machine and transferred the files over to the Alpha cluster. So I'm not sure the unzipped files were the problem. It seems to me that the build would have aborted much sooner than it did. Lacking any other solution I will download the zip archive created on VMS and give it a try. Thanks for your help.
-----Original Message----- From: Craig A. Berry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 2:11 PM To: Bradley, Bruce Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: Problem Building/compiling Perl 561 At 2:01 PM -0400 7/11/02, Bradley, Bruce wrote: >I downloaded the archive from perl.com. The url for the archive is >http://www.perl.com/CPAN/src/stable.zip Aha. The ZIP files distributed on CPAN are created on and for Windows. You'll want the .tar.gz version, which unfortunately means acquiring vmstar and gunzip if you don't already have them. These are available from numerous VMS freeware sites. Alternately there is a zipped archive of 5.6.1 (plus some extra extensions) available at <http://www.sidhe.org/vmsperl>. That zip file was created on VMS so it won't cause any problems. -- ________________________________________ Craig A. Berry mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] "... getting out of a sonnet is much more difficult than getting in." Brad Leithauser
