Greetings,

Enclosed please find a patch to the File::Spec implementation
that shipped with the [EMAIL PROTECTED] pre-5.8.1 release kit.
For me I can now run the test:

perl lib/File/Spec/t/rel2abs2rel.t

after either having issued:

   set default DKA200:[USERS.PERL]

Or making use of the USERS rooted logical DKA200:[USERS.]
after having issued:

   set default USERS:[PERL]

and test # 4 now passes in the latter case with this
modification to VMS.pm.  I have not yet had a chance
to test any further ramifications of this patch.  I have not
had a chance to run "mmk test".  I do not yet know if it
will have any effect good or bad on MakeMaker with
a usevmsdebug build.  Nonetheless I'd like to get this out
to the vmsperl list for widespread testing so that I can better
assess how quickly it should be submitted to the pumpking.
Reports are welcome.  Thanks.

diff -ru perl_20898/lib/File/Spec/VMS.pm perl/lib/File/Spec/VMS.pm
--- perl_20898/lib/File/Spec/VMS.pm 2003-08-21 11:48:45.000000000 -0400
+++ perl/lib/File/Spec/VMS.pm 2003-08-29 15:59:16.000000000 -0400
@@ -412,6 +412,18 @@
         $base = $self->canonpath( $base ) ;
     }

+    # Are we even starting $path on the same device as _cwd?  Note that rooted
+    # logical paths or cwds may be on the same device but the comparison
+    # that ignores device differences is not even a good idea there.
+    # Hence we fall back to returning the absolute $path spec
+    # if there is a case blind device difference of any sort
+    # and we do not even try to call sys$parse().
+    my $path_device = ($self->splitpath( $path, 1 ))[0];
+    my $base_device = ($self->splitpath( $base, 1 ))[0];
+    if ( lc( $path_device ) ne lc( $base_device ) ) {
+        return ( $path ) ;
+    }
+
     # Split up paths
     my ( $path_directories, $path_file ) =
         ($self->splitpath( $path, 1 ))[1,2] ;
End of patch.

Also as an enclosure to avert
Notes derived wrappering trouble:

(See attached file: file_spec_20898.patch)

Peter  Prymmer

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