Current version of Perl for OpenVMS ?

[Jeremy Begg]

Hi,

I'm putting together a new OpenVMS IA64 V8.4 system and want to get things
as up to date as possible.

I went looking for the current/latest version of Perl and it's far from
clear what I should be using.  So I ownloaded 5.16.2 but the build fails on
ext/Dynaloader:

        Making DynaLoader (all)

  Running Makefile.PL in ext/DynaLoader
  metho3$dka0:[system.utilities.perl-5_16_2]miniperl.exe;2 "-I../../lib" 
"Makefile.PL" "INST_LIB=[--.lib]" "INST_ARCHLIB=[--.lib]" "PERL_CORE=1"
  Writing Descrip.MMS for DynaLoader



  Making all in ext/DynaLoader
   MMS all /DESCRIPTION=descrip.mms /MACRO=("PERL_CORE=1")
  MCR [--]miniperl.exe "-I[--.lib]" "-I[--.lib]" DynaLoader_pm.PL DynaLoader.pm
  cp dynaloader.pm [--.lib]dynaloader.pm
  MCR [--]miniperl.exe "-I[--.lib]" "-I[--.lib]" -e "use ExtUtils::Mksymlists;" 
        -e "Mksymlists('NAME' => 'DynaLoader', 'DL_FUNCS' => {  }, 'DL_VARS' => 
[], 'FUNCLIST' => [])"
  MCR [--]miniperl.exe -e "print 
""[--.lib.auto.DynaLoader]DynaLoader.olb/Include=DynaLoader\n[--.lib.auto.DynaLoader]DynaLoader.olb/Library\n"";"
 >>DYNALOADER.OPT
  MCR [--]miniperl.exe -e "print qq{PerlShr/Share\n}" >>DYNALOADER.OPT
  MCR SYS$SYSDEVICE:[SYSTEM.UTILITIES.PERL-5_16_2]miniperl.exe "-I[--.lib]" 
"-I[--.lib]" "-MExtUtils::Command" -e "cp" "--" DYNALOADER.OPT 
[--.LIB.AUTO.DYNALOADER]DYNALOADER.OPT
  %MMS-F-GWKNOACTS, Actions to update DL_VMS.C are unknown.
  %MMS-F-GWKNOACTS, Actions to update DL_VMS.C are unknown.


  Unsuccessful make(ext/DynaLoader): code=1024 at make_ext.pl line 466.
  %MMS-F-NOMSG, Message number 00EE805C
  %MMS-F-ABORT, For target DYNALOADER.OBJ, CLI returned abort status: 
%X00EE805C.
  -MMS-F-GWKNOACTS, Actions to update !AS are unknown.
  $

So what version should I be using?

Thanks,

        Jermey Begg