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Re: Not OK: perl v5.8.0 +DEVEL17237 on VMS_AXP V7.2-1

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From:
Craig A. Berry
Date:
June 14, 2002 16:24
Subject:
Re: Not OK: perl v5.8.0 +DEVEL17237 on VMS_AXP V7.2-1
Message ID:
a05111b0fb9300fc7a618@[172.16.52.1]
At 3:05 PM -0400 6/14/02, John Peacock wrote:
>This is a build failure report for perl from jpeacock@kes.internal,
>generated with the help of perlbug 1.33 running under perl v5.8.0.
>
>lib/ExtUtils/t/Command...............FAILED at test 10
>lib/File/Spec/t/rel2abs2rel..........FAILED at test 4
>lib/File/stat........................FAILED at test 18

Hmm.  I seem to remember there were more last time you posted, though
I can't remember any of this week's patches that would have fixed
anything in your configuration.  Oh well, good news is good news.

> >perl [.lib.File.Spec.t]rel2abs2rel.t
>
>Can't pipe "[-.user.jpeacock.perlsrc.perl]perl.exe;1 rel2abs2rel80731.pl": no
>such file or directory at [.lib.file.spec.t]rel2abs2rel.t line 43.
>not ok 4 - canonpath on abs executable
>#     Failed test ([.lib.file.spec.t]rel2abs2rel.t at line 65)
>#          got: ''
>#     expected: 'ok
># '


> The middle error only occurs when running from a
>rooted logical.  Where is the code which is used to set $^X?  The problem
>is that the implied CWD is rooted and $^X is not, so the abs2rel code gets
>confused.

I think it comes straight out of argv[0].  We could break it into
pieces using sys$filescan and put the pieces back together using the
current default device (which might be a rooted logical), but that
would be an unsightly hack that could easily cause more breakage than
it solves.  I'm not sure how best to handle this one.

-- 
________________________________________
Craig A. Berry
mailto:craigberry@mac.com

"... getting out of a sonnet is much more
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