Craig A. Berry wrote:
> 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
>
Axp1» cc/ver
HP C V7.3-009 on OpenVMS Alpha V8.3
Axp1» mms/ident
MMS V3.8 © Copyright 2007 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
>> 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.
>
I'll download MMK and try again. I don't recall if I used MMS or MMK to
build at work.
