At 12:01 PM -0400 8/16/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Today I can report that without specifying any MMS qualifiers >(in other words a default non debug configuration) that I obtained >no build or install problems using the V3.2-01 version of MMS.
The problem I reported goes away when building on an ODS-2 disk or when unpacking the Perl archive in such a way that all the filenames are upcased even when the files are created on an ODS-5 volume. It appears that MMS is case sensitive at least part of the time either when applying rules or when parsing user-defined rules. I suspect this behavior is unintentional and there has just never been sufficient testing of MMS on ODS-5 disks with mixed-case filenames. Perl could try harder to specify dependencies explicitly and leave less to be inferred by the rule engine. It could also state the rules in every possible combination of case, so, for example, you'd have .c.xs .C.XS .c.XS .C.xs But that's a pretty verbose and ugly way to go. Since the weakness appears to be in MMS and there is a workaround, I'm inclined to say we should just document the workaround and leave it that. -- ________________________________________ Craig A. Berry mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] "... getting out of a sonnet is much more difficult than getting in." Brad Leithauser
