Craig, build now ran to completion. > > Module::Build is still in need of a lot of work for VMS. The number > of test failures number in the teens. I sent a patch to the > maintainer that knocked out about half of those a few weeks ago, but > it hasn't been applied yet. >
Failed 24 tests out of 1166, 97.94% okay. [-.ext.POSIX.t]sysconf.t [-.lib.ExtUtils.t]INSTALL_BASE.t [-.lib.ExtUtils.t]PL_FILES.t [-.lib.ExtUtils.t]basic.t [-.lib.Module.Build.t]basic.t [-.lib.Module.Build.t]destinations.t [-.lib.Module.Build.t]ext.t [-.lib.Module.Build.t]extend.t [-.lib.Module.Build.t]files.t [-.lib.Module.Build.t]install.t [-.lib.Module.Build.t]manifypods.t [-.lib.Module.Build.t]metadata.t [-.lib.Module.Build.t]metadata2.t [-.lib.Module.Build.t]notes.t [-.lib.Module.Build.t]ppm.t [-.lib.Module.Build.t]runthrough.t [-.lib.Module.Build.t]tilde.t [-.lib.Module.Build.t]xs.t [-.lib.Test.Harness.t]failure.t [-.lib.Text.TabsWrap.t]fill.t io/fs.t lib/vms_stdio.t op/stat.t op/utftaint.t ### Since not all tests were successful, you may want to run some of ### them individually and examine any diagnostic messages they produce. ### See the INSTALL document's section on "make test". ### You have a good chance to get more information by running ### ./perl harness ### in the 't' directory since most (>=80%) of the tests succeeded. u=179.92 s=0.00 cu=0.00 cs=0.00 scripts=1166 tests=167028 >From the log for the first few failures: t/io/fs..............................................FAILED at test 48 t/op/stat............................................FAILED at test 33 t/op/utftaint........................................FAILED--unexpected output at test 0 t/lib/vms_stdio......................................FAILED--expected 18 tests, saw 17 ext/POSIX/t/sysconf..................................FAILED at test 26 lib/ExtUtils/t/basic.................................FAILED at test 23 lib/ExtUtils/t/INSTALL_BASE..........................FAILED at test 5 lib/ExtUtils/t/PL_FILES..............................FAILED at test 3 $ perl "-V" Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 9 subversion 4) configuration: Platform: osname=VMS, osvers=V7.3-2, archname=VMS_AXP uname='VMS vms7 V7.3-2 COMPAQ AlphaServer DS20E 500 MHz' config_args='-des -Dusedevel -Dprefix=$16$DKA100:[perl594.]' hint=none, useposix=false, d_sigaction=define useithreads=undef, usemultiplicity=undef useperlio=define, d_sfio=undef, uselargefiles=undef, usesocks=undef use64bitint=undef, use64bitall=undef, uselongdouble=undef usemymalloc=undef, bincompat5005=undef Compiler: cc='CC/DECC', ccflags ='/Include=[]/Standard=Relaxed_ANSI/Prefix=All/Obj=.obj /NOANSI_ALIAS/float=ieee/ieee=denorm', optimize='/NoList', cppflags='undef' ccversion='70190015', gccversion='', gccosandvers='undef' intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234 d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=16 ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='int', lseeksize=4 alignbytes=8, prototype=define Linker and Libraries: ld='Link/nodebug', ldflags ='/NoTrace/NoMap' libpth=/sys$share /sys$library libs= perllibs= libc=(DECCRTL), so=exe, useshrplib=undef, libperl=undef gnulibc_version='undef' Dynamic Linking: dlsrc=dl_vms.c, dlext=exe, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='' cccdlflags='', lddlflags='/Share' Characteristics of this PERLSHR image: Compile-time options: DEBUGGING PERL_DONT_CREATE_GVSV PERL_MALLOC_WRAP USE_PERLIO Built under VMS Compiled at Aug 22 2006 09:10:54 %ENV: PERLSHR="$16$DKA100:[PERL594]PERLSHR" PERL_ROOT="$16$DKA100:[PERL594.]" @INC: perl_root:[lib.VMS_AXP.5_9_4] perl_root:[lib] perl_root:[lib.site_perl.VMS_AXP] perl_root:[lib.site_perl] . Carl Friedberg Comet & Company 165 William St 9 NY NY 10038 www.comets.com (212) 233-5470