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On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 08:36:54AM -0600, Craig A. Berry wrote:
> 2.) MM_Unix::fixin doesn't seem to clean up properly on VMS. Here's
> an example borrowed from the $(INST_SCRIPT)instmodsh target showing
> that it successfully creates a new file with the .new extension but
> does not rename it back to the original name:
Investigated this. exe files weren't getting installed on VMS as a result.
The problem appears to be a bug in rename() on 5.8.0 (and whatever version
of Perl you're using). It does the following:
rename('[.blib.script]instmodsh.new', '[.blib.script]instmodsh');
rename() returns 1 however the file is not renamed. It appears rename()
will not work unless there's a dot in the filename. So I hacked up a
rename() wrapper that appends a dot onto a filename if it doesn't have one.
I've also add some tests to ensure executables get installed.
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