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On Wed, 19 Feb 2014 09:39:38 -0500, "Konovalov, Vadim" <Vadim.Konovalov@emc.com> wrote: > > From: Ricardo Signes [mailto:perl.p5p@rjbs.manxome.org] > > * "Konovalov, Vadim" <Vadim.Konovalov@emc.com> [2014-02-19T04:41:31] > > > Although the person haven't shared files yet, I would ask for the > > > EBCDIC basement to be there for another year or a half+, > > > > I said "pull the plug early in 5.21," so that gets us until, say, June. > > Ok, > but it would be more politely to ask Karl also, as these were his efforts that are > discussed now. > > > > I will put my own efforts there too - I have 2 spare weeks on March, > > > so I will look closer into z/OS problem at all. > > > > Do you actually have a machine that you can turn into a smoker for regular > > reports of the build status, and on which you or some other porter will be > > able to address problems? > > Actually there exists free emulator (Hercules) that is fully capable to run z/OS. Yes and no: I have (had) an OpenSUSE installation under Hercules but there is (was) no version of gcc available that was able to compile and run perl. That state might have changed by now. VM $ ll zdolinux* 26476576 -rw-r--r-- 1 merijn 2599981056 2013-04-03 12:40:16 zdolinux-v1r0.iso 26476588 -rw-rw-rw- 1 merijn 2233425920 2013-04-05 15:32:32 zdolinux-v1r02.iso 26476589 -rw-rw-rw- 1 root 2225020928 2013-04-05 15:41:59 zdolinux-v1r03.iso zdolinux: total 2293356 26476603 drwxrwxrwx 4 merijn 4096 2013-04-05 15:39:12 . 26476575 drwxrwxrwt 5 merijn 4096 2013-04-05 15:42:20 .. 26476618 d-wx-wx-wt 2 merijn 4096 2012-10-10 20:33:18 .Trashes 26476612 drwx------ 2 merijn 4096 2013-04-05 15:35:31 .fseventsd 26476607 -rw-r----- 1 merijn 136460165 2013-08-25 19:15:44 HOME.cckd 26476611 -rw-r--r-- 1 merijn 1283 2013-08-25 18:20:40 README 26476606 -rw-r----- 1 merijn 2172926030 2013-08-25 20:19:35 ROOT.cckd 26476604 -rw-r----- 1 merijn 38963893 2013-08-25 17:59:51 SWAP.cckd 26476608 -rwxr-xr-x 1 merijn 2249 2013-06-10 16:26:49 hercules.cfg 26476610 -rw-r--r-- 1 merijn 149 2012-10-10 20:25:10 hercules.rc 26476609 -rwxr-xr-x 1 merijn 1791 2013-06-10 17:17:01 startup.sh 26476605 -rwxr-xr-x 1 merijn 2219 2012-10-10 20:25:10 template.cfg > z/OS is not freely available, but previous OS version *is*, so getting z/OS-compatible > configuration is possible for free. > > So - the answer is - yes. > > > > > The EBCDIC problem is not getting it to build once, but being able to smoke > > and repair it regularly. > > Ok, yes, this is what I think is doable, but - indeed - this needs some investigations to say for sure. > > Stay tuned :) I will provide more information on the matter, ... -- H.Merijn Brand http://tux.nl Perl Monger http://amsterdam.pm.org/ using perl5.00307 .. 5.19 porting perl5 on HP-UX, AIX, and openSUSE http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ http://www.test-smoke.org/ http://qa.perl.org http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/Thread Previous | Thread Next