At 03:00 PM 7/15/2002 -0400, Bradley, Bruce wrote: >I downloaded the archive from http://www.sidhe.org/vmsperl and perl did not >build (insufficient privilege problems)
This should work just fine from a non-privileged account (though there may be some test failures in some of the extensions if the thing being tested requires privs). At what point did you get a failure? >and would like to know how to >cleanup the directories/files and try the build again. I tried the command >"MMS realclean" but it didn't work. The safest thing is to delete the entire directory tree and start over. I find DFU indispensable for this; it's available on the OpenVMS freeware CD or downloadable from HpaQ's OpenVMS freeware site. There is also a utility called DELTREE at <http://vms.process.com/fileserv-software.html>. Or you can just keep deleting until the directories are empty and then delete the directories. For all these methods you'll have to change protection on the directories to make them deletable. If you have an older but functional Perl, you can delete directory trees with something like: $ perl -e "use File::Path; rmtree(\@ARGV,1,0);" dirname BTW, if you just want a working Perl and aren't into messing with the build, you can just install Compaq's pre-built kit available from <http://www.openvms.compaq.com/openvms/products/ips/apache/csws_modperl.html>.
