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Peter, Many thanks I originally assumed that it must be a quota problem somewhere given the limited defaults. I'll give it a go with what you suggest. /Steve ----- Original Message ----- From: <PPrymmer@factset.com> To: "Craig A. Berry" <craigberry@mac.com> Cc: <steve@wcslnet.co.uk>; <vmsperl@perl.org> Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 6:12 PM Subject: Re: MMK + 7.3-1 = :-( [was Re: Problem building Perl] > > Craig Berry wrote: > > !Which is what Steve, who originally reported the problem, has. I > !didn't bother to upgrade from 3.9-2 and it seems 3.9-2 and 3.9-3 both > !have the same problem with VMS 7.3-1 (but work fine with VMS 7.3 and > !earlier). If I can work it up I'd like to put together a smaller > !reproducer than a complete build of Perl and/or locate the exact > !source of the problem. > > I have just succeeded in building an unpatched perl 5.8.0 > using DEC C V6.0-001 on OpenVMS Alpha V7.3-1 with MMK V3.9-3 > on an ODS-2 volume. Test failures were: > > lib/File/Find/t/find.................FAILED at test 1 > lib/File/Find/t/taint................FAILED at test 1 > lib/Net/hostent......................FAILED at test 5 > t/pod/find...........................FAILED at test 2 > Failed 4 test scripts out of 636, 99.37% okay. > > I note that Steve reported a failure to build the File::Glob > extension. You may recall that there are a lot of VMS > specific modifications to the build so that Perl's internal > glob() does not call the (BSD-derived) File::Glob, but does > call something like sys$search(). My suspicions with the > trouble that Steve is seeing is that perhaps this is a > different signature to the UAF limit exceeeded problem(???). > FWIW I had: > > $ search config.sh pgflq > pgflquota='15000000' > > which is in excess of the UAF default value. > > Peter Prymmer > >Thread Previous | Thread Next