I'm not sure if this the right place to mention it or the right time but I
still get (that is before the last two snapshots Michael has made available) a
few problems building the latest DBI and DBD::ODBC on VMS with Perl 5.8.1 that
I believe might be down to MakeMaker.
I added the following to our instructions for using our OOB ODBC driver with
Perl DBI/DBD::ODBC which identify the problems:
When building DBI:
With DBI-1.35 and this Perl snapshot we had two problems with the
makefile generated from the Makefile.PL by MakeMaker:
[a] "%MMS-F-GWKNOACTS, Actions to update CONFIG are unknown."
This seems to be caused by a rule with no action. If you search the
generated descrip.mms file for the line:
config :: $(changes_pm)
add on the next line:
$(NOECHO) $(NOOP)
Make sure you put a tab before "$(NOECHO)".
[b] "%MMS-F-GWKNOACTS, Actions to update [.BLIB.ARCH.AUTO.DBI]DRIVER.XST
are unknown."
This seems to be caused by the lines generated by MakeMaker
commented as "these two keep make -j4 working". e.g. in descrip.mms
search for:
# these two keep make -j4 working
$(DBI_DRIVER_XST) :: pm_to_blib
$(DBI_INSTARCH_DIR)Driver_xst.h :: pm_to_blib
and comment out (with a #) the two rules after the comment.
You may also see %SYSTEM-W-BADFILEVER errors for dbiprof.pl.rno,
dbiproxy.pl.rno and possibly dbish.pl.rno (pre 1.35). This
problem is due to the double file extension which is invalid in
VMS but we currently do not know the solution (you can ignore it).
[a] and [b] above also happen with DBD::ODBC.
Martin
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Martin J. Evans
Easysoft Ltd, UK
Development
On 25-Mar-2003 Michael G Schwern wrote:
> The latest MakeMaker snapshot (www.makemaker.org) is feeling much better
> about VMS. Its down to a small handful of problems, the major one being
> a bug in the doc_*_install targets having to do with perllocal.pod not
> being properly created. I should be able to fix that one tommorrow.
>
> Still need help with the newline escaping in order to test split_command().
>
> Not yet sure why install.t is failing or why 'mmk pm_to_blib' doesn't
> show any skip messages, just copies.
>
> Here's what I see when running the snapshot on VMS against 5.8.0:
>
> Failed Test Stat Wstat Total Fail Failed List of Failed
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> -
> t/basic.t 44 1024 48 20 41.67% 27-45 48
> t/install.t 44 1024 18 3 16.67% 9 13 17
> t/split_command.t 44 1024 6 2 33.33% 4 6
> 7 tests and 52 subtests skipped.
> Failed 3/30 test scripts, 90.00% okay. 25/454 subtests failed, 94.49% okay.
>
>
> --
> 7. It is always something
> -- RFC 1925
