Craig, On Mar 23, 2011, at 8:35 PM, Craig Berry wrote:
> On Mar 23, 2011, at 1:46 PM, Carl Friedberg wrote: > > > I have these issues which I will research and report back to the group (all > > with VMS 8.3 on alpha): > > > > (1) my batch script generates 2 batch logs with the same name. One from > > configure; the other from the > > main build and test script. Craig made > > some changes to configure.com which should have fixed this; I > > will dig in and report back. > > I'm not sure I recall that specifically. Configure.com reopens SYS$OUTPUT > and there were some changes > to how that's done a year or two ago, so maybe > that's covered. Do report if not. I see the F$GETQUI calls I submitted; but I would like to have a different name for the two output logs. I'll submit a diff for your consideration soon. > > (2) the tests hang on (all flavors of 5-12) > > > > ext/Devel-SelfStubber/t/Devel-SelfStubber > > > I've never seen that, and I don't recall hearing it reported before. Does it > hang when run outside of the > test suite? If so, running it under the Perl debugger and seeing where > exactly it hangs might be useful. I will report back, this is my first 5.12.3 build. > > > (3) I am still building with -Uuseperlio because of previous issues (since > > 5-10) with extraneous line > > endings inserted when processing long lines ( Martin Z. and Craig have > > worked that; apparently > > there's an extra line ending every 4048 characters ). > > It was more that (in output to record-oriented files only) the implicit flush > every 4K when an > internal buffer filled up would give you line breaks in odd places. What's > fixed in 5.12.3 is > that it now does an implicit flush whenever it encounters a newline and is > writing to a > record-oriented file. This is a complete fix if you never have lines longer > than 4K (4096 > bytes). In 5.14.0 (due next month), the internal buffer size is also > increased, so you > should be good for lines up to 32K, which I believe is the RMS limit for > record-oriented text files. Thanks for the detailed explanation. I will do some testing there as well. I have @configure "-des" "-Uuseperlio" "-Dprefix=' ' installdir' " Is Uuseperlio still needed? Thank you very much Carl (sorry, I am struggling with Outlook 2010 and formatting has been done by hand, I hope it reads OK)
