I am trying to get the GNU make 4.0.90 self tests run on VMS, and they
are written in perl.
I am making some progress, but have found some issues.
I can not seem to do a rmdir() of an absolute or relative Unix path with
Perl 5.18.1.
I have worked around the issue by replacing the rmdir() builtin method
with one that translates the filename to VMS format and then calls
unlink().
LION> perl --version
This is perl 5, version 18, subversion 1 (v5.18.1) built for VMS_IA64
LION> show log decc$*
(LNM$PROCESS_TABLE)
"DECC$EFS_CASE_PRESERVE" = "ENABLE"
"DECC$EFS_CHARSET" = "ENABLE"
"DECC$FILENAME_UNIX_NOVERSION" = "ENABLE"
"DECC$FILENAME_UNIX_REPORT" = "ENABLE"
"DECC$READDIR_DROPDOTNOTYPE" = "ENABLE"
LION> show log perl_*
(LNM$PROCESS_TABLE)
"PERL_ROOT" = "LION$DKA0:[SYS0.SYSCOMMON.perl-5_18.]"
I also noticed that opendir('/search_list/directory') fails when
'directory' is only in the first member of the search list. I am not
sure what the issue there is. I think the solution for that will be
more complex.
I have worked around that issue by decoding the search list and
recreating the path to used for opendir.
Regards,
-John
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