** LIKE ** ! On Aug 21, 2016 9:54 AM, "Jonathan Belanger" <jbelang...@rochester.rr.com> wrote:
> Hi Craig, > > > Why? > Because I like the VAX. I also have the emulator running at just under 24 > times the speed of a VAX 780. I'm also working on an emulator for the > Alpha. The VAX may have been discontinued, but there are many still out > there and ignoring them is just wrong. > > It appears that /OPT=NODISJOINT does appear to work successfully. > > Thanks, > > ~Jon. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Craig A. Berry [mailto:craigbe...@mac.com] > Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2016 9:34 AM > To: Jonathan Belanger > Cc: vmsperl@perl.org > Subject: Re: Trying to build PERL 5.22.3RC1 on OpenVMS VAX V7.3 with some > issues... > > On Aug 21, 2016, at 7:31 AM, Jonathan Belanger < > jbelang...@rochester.rr.com> wrote: > > > > Hi All, > > > > I just joined the list, so please let me know if I make any mistakes. > > > > I’m trying to build PERL 5.22.3RC1 on a emulated VAX running OpenVMS VAX > V7.2 (unpatched). > > Why? The VAX architecture was discontinued sixteen years ago. If you > succeed it will take days and days to do the build. There have been an > increasing number of features that won’t work right on an ODS-2 disk. So, > it’s an uphill battle, and not worth the effort when you can get an Alpha > emulator or a cheap Itanium on eBay. > > > After getting past a few issues that prevented the build from proceeding > (CONFIGURE.COM, DESCRIP_MMS.TEMPLATE, and MAKFILE.PL in DYNALOADER needed > some changes). I’m now at the point where MD5 is compiling and though it > shows CPU time being takeng up, there is no I/O occurring and the > compilation never returns. The compile I’m using is Compaq (DEC) C V6.4. > Has anyone else had this issue? I’m not sure how to best debug it. Any > help would be appreciated. > > The optimizer on that old compiler gets confused but compiling with > /Optimize=(NODISJOINT) has been reported to do the trick. > > There is a patch to do that here in this ticket: > > <https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=85932> > > ________________________________________ > Craig A. Berry > > "... getting out of a sonnet is much more difficult than getting in." > Brad Leithauser > > > >
