I had noted in the past that temporary files were starting to pile up in
my SYS$SCRATCH: directory after runs of "mmk test" in a
perl source tree. Unfortunately I have bad news: it appears
that basic perl use with recent maint kits will lead to accumulation
of these temporary files. I was able to tell this since as of
this morning I have run only a couple of basic perl tasks:
I set def'ed into a [EMAIL PROTECTED] source tree and ran:
mmk install
I then unpacked a snapshot of File::Spec::0.85_01
from CPAN and ran the usual:
perl Makefile.PL
mmk test
(one of the tests failed - possible vmspipe.com issue too).
As of this morning I now have three new unwanted files:
$ dir/date/size/since sys$scratch:
Directory S1:[PPRYMMER]
FILE-SPEC-0_85_01.DIR;1
1 12-SEP-2003 09:18:50.66
FILE-SPEC-0_85_01.TAR;1
280 12-SEP-2003 09:18:25.28
FTP_SERVER.LOG;1 12 12-SEP-2003 09:17:09.63
PERLIO_65DA58.;1 5 12-SEP-2003 08:58:17.09
PERLIO_A5DA58.;1 4 12-SEP-2003 09:00:17.58
PERLPIPE_2A65EB60_4.COM;1
2 12-SEP-2003 09:19:34.58
Total of 6 files, 304 blocks.
The perlpipe_$$.com is possibly due to a lack of vmspipe clean up in the
failed test of the module. But the perlio_$$. files contain things like:
pod/perl.pod
pod/perl5004delta.pod
pod/perl5005delta.pod
pod/perl561delta.pod
pod/perl56delta.pod
pod/perl570delta.pod
pod/perl571delta.pod
pod/perl572delta.pod
pod/perl573delta.pod
pod/perl58delta.pod
pod/perlaix.pod
pod/perlamiga.pod
pod/perlapi.pod
pod/perlapio.pod
<snip>
Which looks like installperl. pod directory listings and the other
contains:
lib/vms_axp/5_8_1/core/av.h
lib/vms_axp/5_8_1/core/cc_runtime.h
lib/vms_axp/5_8_1/core/config.h
lib/vms_axp/5_8_1/core/cop.h
lib/vms_axp/5_8_1/core/cv.h
lib/vms_axp/5_8_1/core/embed.h
lib/vms_axp/5_8_1/core/embedvar.h
lib/vms_axp/5_8_1/core/extern.h
lib/vms_axp/5_8_1/core/fakethr.h
lib/vms_axp/5_8_1/core/form.h
lib/vms_axp/5_8_1/core/gv.h
lib/vms_axp/5_8_1/core/handy.h
which looks like installperl header listings.
Peter Prymmer
