On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 09:31:00AM -0600, Craig A. Berry wrote: > At 4:10 PM +0000 1/16/08, Nicholas Clark wrote: > >I've made a 5.8.x snapshot. > > > >http://www.ccl4.org/~nick/P/perl-32984.tar.bz2 > >(or http://www.ccl4.org/~nick/P/perl-32984.tar.gz ) > > > >I'm particularly curious how it fares on VMS, > > @32985, here's what a default build gives me: > > t/io/fs.....................................FAILED at test 5 > lib/ExtUtils/t/cd...........................FAILED at test 1 > lib/ExtUtils/t/eu_command...................FAILED at test 21 > lib/Test/Harness/t/failure..................FAILED--expected test 3, saw test > 2 > lib/Test/Harness/t/strap-analyze............FAILED at test 37 > lib/Test/Harness/t/test-harness.............FAILED at test 46 > Failed 6 tests out of 1029, 99.42% okay. > > If there are upgrades from CPAN in the pipeline for EU::MM and > Test::Harness, that will likely get us squared away with those. I'll > see what I can figure out with io/fs.t.
Yes, there were. Now should be identical to 5.10 (apart from a $VERSION tweak) $ diff -u t/io/fs.t ../../perl/t/io/fs.t --- t/io/fs.t Sat Nov 17 20:18:43 2007 +++ ../../perl/t/io/fs.t Wed Sep 26 15:54:56 2007 @@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ } elsif ($^O eq 'VMS') { `if f\$search("[.tmp]*.*") .nes. "" then delete/nolog/noconfirm [.tmp]*.*.*`; + `if f\$search("tmp.dir") .nes. "" then set file/prot=o:rwed tmp.dir;`; `if f\$search("tmp.dir") .nes. "" then delete/nolog/noconfirm tmp.dir;`; `create/directory [.tmp]`; } That line is part of this, which I guess at the time I decided wasn't a good thing to integrate to maint. (Right or wrong?) Change 27239 by [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 2006/02/20 09:31:03 Subject: [EMAIL PROTECTED] vms glob/readdir/chdir EFS/long filename support From: John E. Malmberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Feb 20, 2006 3:43 AM Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Affected files ... ... //depot/perl/doio.c#322 edit ... //depot/perl/t/io/fs.t#59 edit ... //depot/perl/vms/vms.c#162 edit Is the change to t/io/fs.t unrelated to the rest? http://public.activestate.com/cgi-bin/perlbrowse/p/27239 Nicholas Clark