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From:
Nicholas Clark
Date:
March 1, 2014 16:10
Subject:
Re: smoke-me/nicholas/fake-pm_to_blib on VMS
Message ID:
20140301161006.GB22619@plum.flirble.org
On Sat, Mar 01, 2014 at 09:56:39AM -0600, Craig A. Berry wrote:

> Trimming .DIR makes that one go away too, which also doesn't make
> sense.  But all is not well as running mmk test reruns all of the
> Makefile.PLs.  It likely has something to do with the fact that the
> VMS make utilities do not leave anything behind in the filesystem for
> a target with no extension, and for that very reason MakeMaker uses
> 'pm_to_blib.ts' rather than 'pm_to_blib' on VMS (or rather defines the
> latter in terms of the former).  So make_ext.pl probably needs to be
> looking for pm_to_blib.ts on VMS.

I don't think that it's that. I'm testing a patch which I think will fix it
(at least on the HP machines). Right now I've got 72 extensions on the fast
path, but I think I need one more tweak to get the last 8.

Nicholas Clark

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