Craig and the list, I decided to attempt a build of 5.9.4 on HP C V7.1-015 on OpenVMS Alpha V7.3-2.
I have developed a DCL script to do most of this in batch. The first issue: on bleed, you are asked to respond with a "Y" if you want to continue in configure. I ran that interactively, and then restarted my procedure. Things went reasonably well until the build of ZLIB. Making Compress/Raw/Zlib (dynamic) Parsing config.in... Building Zlib enabled Auto Detect Gzip OS Code.. Setting Gzip OS Code to 2 [VMS] Looks Good. Writing Descrip.MMS for Compress::Raw::Zlib cp [.lib.compress.raw]zlib.pm [----.lib.compress.raw]zlib.pm AutoSplitting ../../../../lib/compress/raw/zlib.pm ([----.lib.auto.Compress.Raw.Zlib]) MCR [----]miniperl.exe "-I[----.lib]" "-I[----.lib]" -e "use ExtUtils::Mksymlists;" -e "Mksymlists('NAME' => 'Compress::Raw::Zlib', 'DL_FUNCS' => { }, 'DL_VARS' => [], ' FUNCLIST' => [])" MCR [----]miniperl.exe -e "print ""[----.lib.auto.Compress.Raw.Zlib]Zlib.olb/Include=Zlib\n[----.lib.auto .Compress.Raw.Zlib]Zlib.olb/Library\n"";" >>ZLIB.OPT MCR [----]miniperl.exe -e "print qq{[----]PerlShr.exe/Share\n}" >>ZLIB.OPT MCR SYS_UTILITY:[PERL.PERL-5_9_4]miniperl.exe "-I[----.lib]" "-I[----.lib]" "-MExtUtils::Command" -e cp ZLIB.OPT [----.LIB.AUTO.COMPRESS.RAW.ZLIB]ZLIB.OPT MCR [----]miniperl.exe "-I[----.lib]" "-I[----.lib]" [----.lib.ExtUtils]xsubpp -typemap [----.lib.ExtUtils]typemap -typemap typemap ZLIB.xs >ZLIB.C Warning: long symbol Compress__Raw__Zlib_zlib_version trimmed to Cps_R_Zb_zb_version (followed by many similar messages), then Warning: long symbol Compress__Raw__Zlib__inflateScanStream_adler32 trimmed to Cps_R_Zb_ileSnSe_adler32 at ../../../../lib/ExtUtils/ParseXS.pm line 430 CC/DECC /Include=[]/Standard=Relaxed_ANSI/Prefix=All/Obj=.obj /NOANSI_ALIAS/float=ieee/ieee=denorm/Define=("GZIP_OS_CODE=2","VERSION=" "2.000_13""","XS_VERSION=""2.000_13""")/ Include=([----],[.zlib-src])/NoList ZLIB.c %MMS-F-GWKNOACTS, Actions to update ADLER32.OBJ are unknown. %MMS-F-ABORT, For target DYNEXT, CLI returned abort status: %X10EE805C. BTW, this all started because I want to try to use some of the new Module::Builder stuff, but now I'm sorry I spent time on that. What I really need to do is some simple module building stuff, but I keep tripping up on various failures (usually caused by my use of ODS-5 directories, which is rapidly becoming the default for all the systems which I work on...). I'll keep soldering on, but if you have a useful URL to read, let me know. Thanks, Carl Friedberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.comets.com