I'm attempting to build PERL 5.10.0 on an Alpha VMS 8.3 system on an ODS-5 disk. It passes all but two of the tests see below
David Webb Security team leader CCSS Middlesex University Failed 2 tests out of 1338, 99.85% okay. [-.lib.Archive.Extract.t]01_Archive-Extract.t [-.lib.CPANPLUS.t]20_CPANPLUS-Dist-MM.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=75.74 s=0.00 cu=0.00 cs=0.00 scripts=1338 tests=183817 6-JAN-2008 16:29:02.31 User: CPAN Process ID: 00007A92 Node: HELIUM Process name: "CPAN_55107" Accounting information: Buffered I/O count: 953635 Peak working set size: 17200 Direct I/O count: 36921 Peak virtual size: 184720 Page faults: 17911 Mounted volumes: 0 Images activated: 106 Elapsed CPU time: 0 00:01:15.76 Connect time: 0 01:13:33.13 Soft CPU Affinity: off %SYSTEM-F-ABORT, abort $ MCR []MINIPERL "-V" Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 10 subversion 0) configuration: Platform: osname=VMS, osvers=V8.3, archname=VMS_AXP uname='VMS helium V8.3 COMPAQ AlphaServer DS20E 666 MHz' config_args='-des' hint=none, useposix=false, d_sigaction=define useithreads=undef, usemultiplicity=undef useperlio=define, d_sfio=undef, uselargefiles=define, 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/Define=_USE_STD_STAT=1', 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='off_t', lseeksize=8 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=true, 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 DECCRTL_SOCKETS PERL_DONT_CREATE_GVSV PERL_MALLOC_WRAP USE_IEEE USE_LARGE_FILES USE_PERLIO VMS_DO_SOCKETS Built under VMS Compiled at Jan 6 2008 13:28:47 %ENV: PERLSHR="DATA1:[000000.perl-5_10_0]PERLSHR.EXE" PERL_ROOT="DSA100:[PERL-5_10_0.]" @INC: perl_root:[lib.VMS_AXP.5_10_0] perl_root:[lib] perl_root:[lib.site_perl.VMS_AXP] perl_root:[lib.site_perl] . $ cc/ver HP C V7.1-015 on OpenVMS Alpha V8.3 $ MMK /ident %MMK-I-IDENT, this is the MadGoat Make Utility V3.9-10 -MMK-I-COPYRIGHT, Copyright © 1992-2005, MadGoat Software. All Rights Reserved. $ @ [.VMS]TEST .EXE "" -"v" [-.lib.Archive.Extract.t]01_Archive-Extract.t %DELETE-I-FILDEL, DATA1:[perl-5_10_0.t]PERL.EXE;1 deleted (80 blocks) %COPY-S-COPIED, DATA1:[perl-5_10_0]PERL.EXE;1 copied to DATA1:[PERL-5_10_0.T]PERL.EXE;1 (6 blocks) %DELETE-I-FILDEL, DATA1:[perl-5_10_0.t]vmspipe.com;1 deleted (80 blocks) %COPY-S-COPIED, DATA1:[perl-5_10_0]vmspipe.com;1 copied to DATA1:[PERL-5_10_0.T]vmspipe.com;1 (2 blocks) 6-JAN-2008 16:44:27.63 User: CPAN Process ID: 000079F3 Node: HELIUM Process name: "CPAN" Accounting information: Buffered I/O count: 68339 Peak working set size: 19376 Direct I/O count: 44329 Peak virtual size: 197856 Page faults: 136095 Mounted volumes: 0 Images activated: 469 Elapsed CPU time: 0 00:00:50.70 Connect time: 0 03:21:56.80 Soft CPU Affinity: off ok 1 - use Archive::Extract; ok 2 - Archive::Extract->can('types') ok 3 - Got a list of types ok 4 - Object created based on 'tgz' ok 5 - No error logged ok 6 - Object created based on 'tar' ok 7 - No error logged ok 8 - Object created based on 'gz' ok 9 - No error logged ok 10 - Object created based on 'zip' ok 11 - No error logged ok 12 - Object created based on 'bz2' ok 13 - No error logged ok 14 - Object created based on 'tbz' ok 15 - No error logged ok 16 - Object created based on 'Z' ok 17 - No error logged ok 18 - Found extraction dir 'DATA1:[perl-5_10_0.lib.Archive.Extract.t.src]' ok 19 - Is expected dir 'DATA1:[perl-5_10_0.lib.Archive.Extract.t.src]' ok 20 # skip Prepending ./ to a valid path doesn't give you another valid path on VMS ok 21 # skip Prepending ./ to a valid path doesn't give you another valid path on VMS ok 22 - The object isa Archive::Extract ok 23 - Archive type recognized properly ok 24 - extract() for 'y.tar.gz' reports success ok 25 - No errors capturing buffers ok 26 - Found correct number of output files ok 27 - Found correct output file 'y/z' ok 28 - Output file 'DATA1:[perl-5_10_0.lib.Archive.Extract.t.out.y]z' exists ok 29 - Extract dir found ok 30 - Extract dir exists ok 31 - Extract dir is expected 'DATA1:[perl-5_10_0.lib.Archive.Extract.t.out.y]' ok 32 - Output file successfully removed ok 33 - rmtree gave no error ok 34 - Extract dir succesfully removed ok 35 - The object isa Archive::Extract ok 36 - Archive type recognized properly not ok 37 - extract() for 'double_dir.zip' reports success LIB/ARCHIVE/EXTRACT/T/01_ARCHIVE-EXTRACT....FAILED at test 37 Failed 1 test out of 0, 0.00% okay. [-.LIB.ARCHIVE.EXTRACT.T]01_ARCHIVE-EXTRACT.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". u=50.96 s=0.00 cu=0.00 cs=0.00 scripts=0 tests=0 6-JAN-2008 16:44:31.01 User: CPAN Process ID: 000079F3 Node: HELIUM Process name: "CPAN" Accounting information: Buffered I/O count: 69120 Peak working set size: 19376 Direct I/O count: 44385 Peak virtual size: 197856 Page faults: 136577 Mounted volumes: 0 Images activated: 471 Elapsed CPU time: 0 00:00:50.99 Connect time: 0 03:22:00.18 Soft CPU Affinity: off %SYSTEM-F-ABORT, abort $ @ [.VMS]TEST .EXE "" -"v" [-.lib.CPANPLUS.t]20_CPANPLUS-Dist-MM.t %DELETE-I-FILDEL, DATA1:[perl-5_10_0.t]PERL.EXE;1 deleted (80 blocks) %COPY-S-COPIED, DATA1:[perl-5_10_0]PERL.EXE;1 copied to DATA1:[PERL-5_10_0.T]PERL.EXE;1 (6 blocks) %DELETE-I-FILDEL, DATA1:[perl-5_10_0.t]vmspipe.com;1 deleted (80 blocks) %COPY-S-COPIED, DATA1:[perl-5_10_0]vmspipe.com;1 copied to DATA1:[PERL-5_10_0.T]vmspipe.com;1 (2 blocks) 6-JAN-2008 16:45:14.55 User: CPAN Process ID: 000079F3 Node: HELIUM Process name: "CPAN" Accounting information: Buffered I/O count: 69242 Peak working set size: 19376 Direct I/O count: 44407 Peak virtual size: 197856 Page faults: 136904 Mounted volumes: 0 Images activated: 478 Elapsed CPU time: 0 00:00:51.02 Connect time: 0 03:22:43.72 Soft CPU Affinity: off ok 1 - Rebuilding trees ok 2 - Loaded object for: Foo::Bar::EU::NOXS ok 3 - Loaded object for: Foo::Bar ok 4 - Format is available ok 5 - Making format unavailable ok 6 - Format failure logged ok 7 - Fetching module to DATA1:[PERL-5_10_0.LIB.CPANPLUS.T.dummy-cpanplus.authors.id.EUNOXS]Foo-Bar-0.01.tar.gz ok 8 - Extracting module to DATA1:[PERL-5_10_0.LIB.CPANPLUS.T.dummy-cpanplus.5_10_0.build.Foo-Bar-0_01] ok 9 - Testing module ok 10 - Test success registered as status ok 11 - Prepared status registered ok 12 - Created status registered ok 13 - Distdir status registered properly ok 14 - Preparing module ok 15 - Creating module ok 16 - Building distribution ok 17 - Dist registered as status ok 18 - The object isa CPANPLUS::Dist::MM ok 19 # skip No install tests under core perl ok 20 # skip No install tests under core perl ok 21 # skip No install tests under core perl ok 22 # skip No install tests under core perl ok 23 # skip No install tests under core perl ok 24 # skip No install tests under core perl ok 25 # skip No install tests under core perl ok 26 # skip No install tests under core perl ok 27 # skip No install tests under core perl ok 28 # skip No install tests under core perl ok 29 - Old status info flushed ok 30 - New dist object made ok 31 - Dist->prepare failed ok 32 - Failure logged ok 33 - Dist->create failed ok 34 - Failure logged ok 35 - Dist->create failed ok 36 - Failure logged ok 37 - Old status info flushed ok 38 - Module fetched again ok 39 - Module extracted again not ok 40 - Dist object built LIB/CPANPLUS/T/20_CPANPLUS-DIST-MM....FAILED at test 40 Failed 1 test out of 0, 0.00% okay. [-.LIB.CPANPLUS.T]20_CPANPLUS-DIST-MM.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". u=51.29 s=0.00 cu=0.00 cs=0.00 scripts=0 tests=0 6-JAN-2008 16:45:48.74 User: CPAN Process ID: 000079F3 Node: HELIUM Process name: "CPAN" Accounting information: Buffered I/O count: 70030 Peak working set size: 19376 Direct I/O count: 44462 Peak virtual size: 197856 Page faults: 137392 Mounted volumes: 0 Images activated: 480 Elapsed CPU time: 0 00:00:51.32 Connect time: 0 03:23:17.91 Soft CPU Affinity: off %SYSTEM-F-ABORT, abort