Op een grimmige winterdag (Friday 04 March 2005 21:24),schreef Craig A. Berry: > At 1:13 AM +0100 3/4/05, Abe Timmerman wrote: > >Is there a way to make the CPAN module work on this VAX OpenVMS-V7.2? > > > >I've hacked the Config.pm and fiddled with CPAN.pm, but I get lost in the > >trail... > >The first problem seems to be the local-filenames with multiple dots. > > I've never used it because the effort to get it ported was always a > bit more effort than just manually installing whatever extension I > was interested in. It would be very nice to have working. Chuck > Lane did get a version working some years ago: > > http://www.crinoid.com/perl560.htmlx
I'll look into that > He also wrote the VMS::FileUtils module to handle the multiple dot > issue you are encountering: > > http://search.cpan.org/~clane/VMS-FileUtils_0.014/ With some simple cruft I got that to work, but will look at this as well. Now I'm stuck with ExtUtils::MM_VMS::maybe_command(). It doesn't check the programs set as DCLSymbol nor does it check the Known File Entry Table. Good luck, Abe -- "Jarkko Hietaniemi" is actually the code name for a whole team of Finnish super-programmers, capable of working continuously 25 hours a day without tripping each other up, and running solely only on intravenous caffeine. -- Nicholas Clark on p5p @ 2002-03-04
