John Peacock wrote:

!John Peacock wrote:
!
!> Craig Berry wrote:
!>
!>> Thanks for the additional testing, and consider how picky we've gotten
!>> that 99.39% successful is considered bad news.
!
!IMPORTANT: when running tests under VMS, do not have a logical named TEST!
It
!will cause false positives.
!
!Isn't there some logic somewhere that scans for problem logicals and
suggests
!that they should be deassign'd before testing.

Yes there is.  In fact it is set to look for a symbol
named "TEST" as of [EMAIL PROTECTED], but not
a logical name.

Here is a patch to add the check for the logical name:

--- perl_20617/configure.com  2003-08-02 02:54:11.000000000 -0400
+++ perl/configure.com  2003-08-12 16:14:38.000000000 -0400
@@ -6348,6 +6348,7 @@
 $ CALL Bad_environment "POSIX"
 $ CALL Bad_environment "SYS"
 $ CALL Bad_environment "T"
+$ CALL Bad_environment "TEST"
 $ CALL Bad_environment "THREAD"
 $ CALL Bad_environment "THREADS"
 $ CALL Bad_environment "TIME"
End of Patch.

(See attached file: conf.patch)

I note too that the check for the logical name "COMP"
may no longer be needed since I have no trouble with
a C<@configure "-des"> build and get 100% tests passing.
I have refrained from making that change in the enclosed
patch since we are now too close to 5.8.1 release
to allow for widespread testing of it.

Peter Prymmer

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