In investigating a failure of lib/Module/Build/t/compat.t, I discovered
that it was because glob() was behaving differently.
glob('foo') on vms is interpreted as glob('foo.*') would be on Unix.
As a result, the clean target is incorrectly deleting 'foo.PL' when it
was requested to delete 'foo', along with deleting 'foo'.
And even worse, if 'foobar' is a directory, glob('foobar') on VMS is
treated as if it were glob('foobar/*') on Unix. And it does not matter
if it is specified as glob('[.foobar]'), glob('foobar.dir'), or
glob('foobar/'), it still is treated as if it were glob('foobar/*') on a
Unix system.
In the case of a file, this appears that it may be an oversight in the
implementation. In the case of the directory, code has been
specifically added to cause this behavior.
I am trying to figure out what the fix should be.
-John
wb8...@gmail.com
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