On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 05:08:49PM -0600, Craig A. Berry wrote:
> At 5:06 PM -0500 12/12/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> >Don't worry though I do know the drill: upgrade everything and pull the
> >latest makemaker from some obscure URL.
> 
> Don't do that.  There are new breakages on VMS at least since MM 6.21
> if not earlier.  In current maintperl and bleadperl I'm seeing these
> failures
> 
> lib/ExtUtils/t/Constant..............FAILED at test 27

ExtUtils::Constant is a seperate module.


> lib/ExtUtils/t/INST_PREFIX...........FAILED at test 41

That's possibly the INSTALLSITEMAN1DIR variable getting expanded by
VMS from $(INSTALLMAN1DIR) to its actual value.  Could you run MM 6.21
from CPAN against an installed, stable Perl and give me the test 
diagnostics?


> plus when doing a core build all the XS code gets compiled again when
> making the "test" target.  Hopefully I'll find time to look into
> these or at least file a proper bug report one of these days.

Known problem.  Fixed in the snapshot on makemaker.org.


-- 
Michael G Schwern        [EMAIL PROTECTED]  http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/
I was *meant* to mount your donuts.

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