On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 09:41:19PM -0500, Craig A. Berry wrote:
> Well, I know you'd be shocked and disappointed if I didn't complain
> about *something*, so I'll just point out that the 'make install'
> tests in basic.t fail on those older VMS systems that have trouble
> with deep directories (pre-7.2 Alpha, all VAXen).  Basically, when
> the current directory is "/BFD_TEST_ROOT/t/Big-Dummy/"  and you do
> "mkdir dummy-install/lib/site_perl/VMS_AXP/auto/Big/Dummy" you are
> getting to 9 levels but only 8 are allowed.

Since every test does:  chdir($Is_VMS ? 'BFD_TEST_ROOT:[t]' : 't'); if
you'd change the BFD_TEST_ROOT definition in 00setup_dummy.t to already be 
in t/ then we can squeeze out that last directory.  I can't do it since
I don't really understand the bfdtesttmp.com code.


> And there are the wish-list items of having Install.pm and
> Manifest.pm be case blind when retrieving filenames from the file
> system but still being able to match those filenames to mixed-case
> package names.

That's a big thing which I'm not going to worry about prior to release
unless a patch appears on my doorstep.


> On recent versions of VMS, all the ExtUtils tests are passing in
> bleadperl as long as we don't enable case preservation in filenames.

They work when you *don't* enable it?  That doesn't make sense.


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