The $^X discussion led me to discover that we had $Config{_exe} missing, and fixing that led me to discover that we really shouldn't be using it the way which_perl does because the Perl we use to run the test suite doesn't have any extension at all. The patch below fixes the second of two compensating errors and gets all tests passing again. --- t/test.pl;-0 Tue May 28 08:26:51 2002 +++ t/test.pl Thu May 30 21:26:02 2002 @@ -433,6 +433,9 @@ unless (defined $Perl) { $Perl = $^X; + # VMS should have 'perl' aliased properly + return $Perl if $^O eq 'VMS'; + my $exe; eval "require Config; Config->import"; if ($@) { [end of patch] -- ________________________________________ Craig A. Berry mailto:craigberry@mac.com "... getting out of a sonnet is much more difficult than getting in." Brad LeithauserThread Next