At 5:38 PM -0400 3/21/08, Thomas Pfau wrote:
>I got my hands on an Alphastation a few months ago. They just updated
>the hobbyist media to include OpenVMS 8.3 so I ordered it. I installed
>OpenVMS and layered products over the past few days. I tried installing
>perl last night and it failed to build.
>
>I first tried 5.10.0 but that barely got started before dying with:
>
>CC/DECC/NOANSI_ALIAS
>/Include=[]/Standard=Relaxed_ANSI/Prefix=All/Obj=.obj/NoList/float=ieee/ieee=denorm/Define=(PERL_CORE,_USE_STD_STAT=1)
>uudmap.h
>
>{
>^
>%CC-E-DECLARATOR, Invalid declarator.
>at line number 1 in file DKA0:[PERL-5_10_0]UUDMAP.H;1
Very strange. What do you get from CC/VERSION ? This is what I have
on one system:
$ cc/vers
HP C V7.3-009 on OpenVMS Alpha V8.3
Wait a sec, why is it trying to compile uudmap.h at all? It almost
looks like MMS is using an implicit rule rather than the explicit one
provided. What is your MMS version?
$ mms/ident
>
>So I tried again with 5.8.8. That went a little farther but died with:
>
>%MMS-F-GWKNOPRN, There are no known sources for the current target
>[.ext.Dynaloader]Dynaloader.pm
>
>I'm quite sure I was able to build 5.8.8 on the alpha at work but that's
>running OpenVMS 8.2 and has ODS-2 disks.
>
>I submitted the builds to batch so if the log files might be interesting
>I can post them.
>
>Any ideas what's going wrong?
Not offhand, but I have built 5.8.8, 5.8.9-to-be, 5.10.0, and the
5.11.x development stream somewhat recently on OpenVMS Alpha v8.3 on
an ODS-5 disk. I typically use MMK rather than MMS. If you have MMK
I suggest trying that first. Probably the best place to get it these
days is <http://ftp.process.com/ftp/vms-freeware/fileserv/mmk.zip>.
I know that there are some case sensitivity options in newer versions
of MMS and also that there have been some bugs with same, but
obviously I don't know whether that's the source of your problem.
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