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  • Craig, my first cut at 18.0 Anything you would like me to pursue? Itanium RX2600 (same as you, I believe) $ cc/version HP C V7.3-018 on OpenVMS IA64 V8.4 $ show system/noproc OpenVMS V8.4 on node ...
    Carl FriedbergCarl Friedberg
    May 12, 2013 at 5:34 pm
    May 15, 2013 at 12:13 am
  • I do not wish to start a flame war, but I respectfully disagree with your assessment of VMS porting support. I believe there are at least five of us in the Perl VMS community who could step in if ...
    Carl FriedbergCarl Friedberg
    Jan 16, 2013 at 9:35 pm
    Jan 16, 2013 at 9:35 pm
  • I am having issues with my 5.16.2 build. Modules that worked fine on 5.8 and 5.10 are now aborting with this error when returning an undefined value by referencing &PL_sv_undef. I have been "fixing" ...
    Thomas PfauThomas Pfau
    Jan 8, 2013 at 3:59 pm
    Jan 10, 2013 at 12:29 pm
  • I finally got 5.16.2 to complete the build process on Integrity today. Apparently DECC$READDIR_DROPDOTNOTYPE enabled causes problems. We have that set at work for something else. I had to define it ...
    Thomas PfauThomas Pfau
    Dec 31, 2012 at 6:32 pm
    Jan 1, 2013 at 11:08 pm
  • I wrote a time module that interfaces to the VMS time system services - $BINTIM, $ASCTIM, $GETTIM, and $NUMTIM. I also had a replacement routines for $ASCTIM, $BINTIM and $GETTIM that could be used ...
    Thomas PfauThomas Pfau
    Dec 24, 2012 at 10:19 pm
    Jan 3, 2013 at 1:36 am
  • Running Makefile.PL in ext/DynaLoader dsa3:[pfau.freeware.perl-5_16_2]miniperl.exe;1 "-I../../lib" "Makefile.PL" "INST_LIB=[--.lib]" "INST_ARCHLIB=[--.lib]" "PERL_CORE=1" Writing Descrip.MMS for ...
    Thomas PfauThomas Pfau
    Dec 22, 2012 at 12:41 pm
    Dec 22, 2012 at 12:41 pm
  • I ran configure.com and selected large integer support but not maximal and not large double. DISK$USERS:[pfau.FREEWARE.perl-5_16_2.vms]vmsish.h;1 copied to ...
    Thomas PfauThomas Pfau
    Dec 22, 2012 at 5:03 am
    Dec 24, 2012 at 7:31 pm
  • A Google search for "vms perl" returns www.sidhe.org/*vmsperl*/ and www.* vmsperl*.com/ among the top results. Neither of these has current information about Perl on VMS. The first refers to Perl ...
    Thomas PfauThomas Pfau
    Dec 21, 2012 at 11:04 pm
    Dec 22, 2012 at 5:02 pm
  • Bash 4.2.39 is the current release and patch level of the GNU bash project and is now available for OpenVMS. Items of specific interest to the to the VMS Perl community are: Recent versions of Perl ...
    John E. MalmbergJohn E. Malmberg
    Dec 16, 2012 at 4:13 pm
    Dec 18, 2012 at 3:38 am
  • Before I go through the trouble of writing this, is anyone aware of a perl script that can be run on VMS using the DROPBOX.COM perl API to keep a VMS directory in synchronization? Currently I use NFS ...
    John E. MalmbergJohn E. Malmberg
    Nov 27, 2012 at 12:45 am
    Nov 27, 2012 at 12:45 am
  • Hi, I'm putting together a new OpenVMS IA64 V8.4 system and want to get things as up to date as possible. I went looking for the current/latest version of Perl and it's far from clear what I should ...
    Jeremy BeggJeremy Begg
    Nov 7, 2012 at 9:56 am
    Nov 7, 2012 at 12:19 pm
  • John, there most probably is such a mechanism, buried deep in the perl script that transforms a file describing the dynamically loadable PMC (polymorphic container, i.e. Parrot object) into C code ...
    Vorländer, MartinVorländer, Martin
    Oct 29, 2012 at 8:05 am
    Oct 29, 2012 at 8:05 am
  • An irritant of long standing has been the fact that many Perl modules on CPAN use Module::Install in their Makefile.PL's but Module::Install has been non-functional on VMS for some time, making the ...
    Craig A. BerryCraig A. Berry
    Oct 26, 2012 at 2:05 pm
    Oct 26, 2012 at 2:05 pm
  • Craig, Thank you. It wasn't too hard; the C sources are quite portable. The biggest part was a script (perl, of course) that transforms the Makefile generated into an MMK description file (I think ...
    Vorländer, MartinVorländer, Martin
    Oct 26, 2012 at 11:04 am
    Oct 26, 2012 at 11:57 am
  • Hi all! Just a little (pre-)announcement... At this year's YAPC::EU the german VAXman persuaded me into attempting a port of Parrot to VMS. While I'm still fighting my way through the build process, ...
    Vorländer, MartinVorländer, Martin
    Oct 23, 2012 at 10:09 am
    Oct 25, 2012 at 12:52 pm
  • Hi, I'm sure I've missed something, and am about to do serious googling, but does anyone here happen to know how to encourage the print statement not to break lines at 132 chars? I have a ...
    Carl FriedbergCarl Friedberg
    Jul 8, 2012 at 7:08 pm
    Jul 9, 2012 at 5:22 am
  • tl;dr: Not everything passed. I think more failed than for Craig on his system. But it's not much different in its failures from 5.14.0. I don't know how to get the shared library override set up to ...
    Nicholas ClarkNicholas Clark
    May 19, 2012 at 8:16 am
    May 19, 2012 at 6:18 pm
  • I would find it really useful to have ssh access to a VMS system for testing perl. Specifically, I'm keen to be able to be able to test tweaks the build system on all of *nix, VMS and Windows so that ...
    Nicholas ClarkNicholas Clark
    May 15, 2012 at 2:24 pm
    Jun 3, 2012 at 4:29 pm
  • I've been taking a swing at compiling Perl with the HP C++ compiler for OpenVMS.[1] There are a number of wrinkles to iron out, one of which boils down to: $ type try.c #define dNOOP extern int ...
    Craig A. BerryCraig A. Berry
    May 4, 2012 at 4:57 pm
    May 5, 2012 at 11:24 pm
  • Specifically, the code is emulated on "everything else", but intended to do something real and useful on VMS: #ifdef VMS /* VMS wants read instead of fread, because fread doesn't respect */ /* RMS ...
    Nicholas ClarkNicholas Clark
    Mar 1, 2012 at 6:30 pm
    Mar 5, 2012 at 8:26 pm
  • Hi Craig, I have now installed 5-14.1 on 3 AlphaServers, all running VMS 8.3. I've noticed the following when I build many of the VMS extensions from CPAN, for instance, this one from VMS::USER ...
    Carl FriedbergCarl Friedberg
    Sep 9, 2011 at 5:42 pm
    Sep 10, 2011 at 2:58 pm
  • Hi Craig, My first cut on 5.14.1 on VMS (list is very quiet, must be August vacation time) $ multinet show/version Process Software MultiNet V5.3 Rev A-X, AlphaServer DS25, OpenVMS AXP V8.3 $ cc ...
    Carl FriedbergCarl Friedberg
    Aug 18, 2011 at 11:46 pm
    Aug 19, 2011 at 2:07 am
  • I have a vague memory (possibly wrong) that there was a VMS editor that choked (in some fashion) on UTF-8. [And if so, I guess because it assumes that source code is ISO-8859-1, and no C1 control ...
    Nicholas ClarkNicholas Clark
    Aug 8, 2011 at 10:25 am
    Aug 8, 2011 at 2:19 pm
  • Hello VMS Perl Folk, If you or your company uses Perl, please have a look at the message below and see about supporting its continued development. Both Nicholas and Dave are Perl internals wizards of ...
    Craig A. BerryCraig A. Berry
    Jun 29, 2011 at 3:34 am
    Jun 29, 2011 at 3:34 am
  • Hi. I'm trying to build 5.12-3 and everything works smoothly (finally). Except after a while Making DynaLoader (all) Making all in ext/DynaLoader MMK "all" /DESCRIPTION=descrip.mms ...
    Andreas ÅhmanAndreas Åhman
    May 26, 2011 at 9:15 am
    May 26, 2011 at 2:05 pm
  • The Perl $GETDVI wrapper has been updated and is available at: http://search.cpan.org/~cberry/VMS-Device-0_10/ What the changelog says about this release is: 0.10 Thu May 19 12:00 2011 - Added ...
    Craig A. BerryCraig A. Berry
    May 20, 2011 at 11:03 pm
    May 20, 2011 at 11:03 pm
  • Hi, I've built 5.12-3 on an RX2600 running VMS 8.4, standalone. Here is the result of the test suite: Failed 5 tests out of 1639, 99.69% okay. ../cpan/CPANPLUS/t/03_CPANPLUS-Internals-Source.t ...
    Carl FriedbergCarl Friedberg
    May 7, 2011 at 6:43 am
    May 7, 2011 at 6:43 am
  • Hi Craig, I don't have time to chase this down. I built librarian out of OCD, not need. It emitted various warnings about ./typemap, and did not pass tests, nor install. I took a quick look at ...
    Carl FriedbergCarl Friedberg
    Apr 29, 2011 at 8:34 pm
    Apr 29, 2011 at 8:34 pm
  • Hello, sorry to be a pain, but here is another case of the spurious linebreak. Environment is OpenVMS IA64 8.3-1H1, Perl 5.12.3 with useperlio defined. I am using Perl with the CGI module to ...
    Dr. Martin P.J. ZinserDr. Martin P.J. Zinser
    Apr 20, 2011 at 10:03 pm
    Apr 25, 2011 at 7:04 pm
  • On our system we have a really useful logical called "UTIL". I added a command to deassign this in the file I submit toe the batch queue. I have two questions 1. Why does this logical cause problems ...
    Black, Andrew (Global Products Unit)Black, Andrew (Global Products Unit)
    Mar 29, 2011 at 8:14 pm
    May 6, 2011 at 4:07 am
  • Hi Craig & Andrew, I removed Uuseperlio from my @configure, and the tests now complete with only six failures (no hang). Failed 6 tests out of 1639, 99.63% okay. ...
    Carl FriedbergCarl Friedberg
    Mar 25, 2011 at 2:06 pm
    Apr 2, 2011 at 9:10 pm
  • Hi Is it possible to download a prebuilt 5.12 or 5.10 Perl. My first priority is Itanium, but Alpha platform would also be useful. Andrew Think green - keep it on the screen. This e-mail and any ...
    Black, Andrew (Global Products Unit)Black, Andrew (Global Products Unit)
    Mar 22, 2011 at 12:46 pm
    Mar 25, 2011 at 10:24 am
  • Gmail - Thank you from ...
    Resume-thanksResume-thanks
    Mar 3, 2011 at 4:44 am
    Mar 6, 2011 at 4:42 am
  • Hello, I am currently going over a number of modules to check that they install/work with Perl 5.12.2 on OpenVMS Itanium 8.3-1H1. Most of the issues I've encountered have been minor and appropriate ...
    Dr. Martin P.J. ZinserDr. Martin P.J. Zinser
    Feb 14, 2011 at 5:24 pm
    Feb 17, 2011 at 4:52 am
  • Gmail - Thank you from ...
    Resume-thanksResume-thanks
    Feb 14, 2011 at 5:28 am
    Feb 25, 2011 at 5:03 am
  • Previously *nix was using a shell script writemain to generate perlmain.c from miniperlmain.c and the list of extensions. However, that functionality is duplicated in lib/ExtUtils/Miniperl.pm, ...
    Nicholas ClarkNicholas Clark
    Nov 28, 2010 at 7:38 pm
    Nov 29, 2010 at 3:19 am
  • I don't have access to a VMS system. I'd like to rearrange some of the build system for core perl, but I don't want to break VMS in the process. Would someone be able to test install 3 Pod related ...
    Nicholas ClarkNicholas Clark
    Oct 1, 2010 at 3:37 pm
    Jan 24, 2011 at 4:28 am
  • Craig, I built perl-5.12.2 on AlphaServer 800 HP C V7.3-009 on OpenVMS Alpha V8.3 Failed 8 tests out of 1636, 99.51% okay. ../cpan/CPANPLUS/t/03_CPANPLUS-Internals-Source.t ...
    Carl FriedbergCarl Friedberg
    Sep 16, 2010 at 2:10 pm
    Sep 17, 2010 at 1:43 pm
  • Okay, it works out quite good now: Failed 6 tests out of 1631, 99.63% okay. ../cpan/CPANPLUS/t/03_CPANPLUS-Internals-Source.t ../cpan/CPANPLUS/t/15_CPANPLUS-Shell.t ../cpan/Module-Build/t/tilde.t ...
    Vorländer, MartinVorländer, Martin
    Sep 4, 2010 at 5:44 pm
    Sep 7, 2010 at 3:10 pm
  • I want to move my subscription to this list to another email address. The only address I can find for mailing list maintenance is majordomo@perl.org but it doesn't seem to be a valid address. Does ...
    Thomas PfauThomas Pfau
    Sep 2, 2010 at 12:58 am
    Sep 2, 2010 at 7:31 am
  • A few days ago I downloaded the perl-5.12.1.tar.gz tarball from CPAN and built it on my Alphaserver ES40 running OpenVMS V8.3 and DECC V7.3-009. I have attached a file containing selected excerpts ...
    Eric RobertsonEric Robertson
    Sep 1, 2010 at 5:55 pm
    Sep 3, 2010 at 11:17 am
  • Hi Folks, please test. Several VMS-specific changes are in this release candidate, most of them fixes for things reported right here on vmsperl. Relevent release note sections are visible at: ...
    Craig A. BerryCraig A. Berry
    Sep 1, 2010 at 12:24 am
    Sep 3, 2010 at 11:35 am
  • I am trying to use SWIG to create a module for calling C from Perl (on VMS and on Unix/Linux platforms). To date I have been running the SWIG EXE on linux and copying over the generated files. - Is ...
    Andrew BlackAndrew Black
    Aug 6, 2010 at 3:45 pm
    Aug 6, 2010 at 10:29 pm
  • I've been hacking around with some code that interfaces to SMG's keyboard routines. The module exposes SMG$READ_STRING, SMG$READ_COMPOSED_LINE and SMG$READ_KEYSTROKE. I also created a ...
    Thomas PfauThomas Pfau
    Aug 3, 2010 at 10:19 pm
    Aug 4, 2010 at 3:30 pm
  • Hi I'm a newbie of VMS. I've tried to build perl 5.10.1 on my IA64 Operating System (Version V8.3-1H1) with ODS5 disks. I have MadGoat Make Utility V4.1 and compiler HP C V7.2-001. I gave the ...
    Fabio CiampiFabio Ciampi
    Jul 19, 2010 at 3:50 pm
    Aug 26, 2010 at 1:36 pm
  • Is the following expected behavior? With normal default protections set: $ say := write sys$output $ say f$env("protection") SYSTEM=RWED, OWNER=RWED, GROUP=RE, WORLD $ perl -e "open(F,' 1.1'); print ...
    Mark BerrymanMark Berryman
    Jul 10, 2010 at 7:05 pm
    Aug 28, 2010 at 9:14 pm
  • Sometime between Perl 5.8.6 and 5.12.1 a memory leak was introduced into Perl and it appears to be in the glob function. The following should reproduce the problem on any VMS system: @dirs = ...
    Mark BerrymanMark Berryman
    Jun 28, 2010 at 9:32 pm
    Jul 2, 2010 at 12:02 am
  • I am not usually quick to install new versions of Perl due to the effort involved in reinstalling all of the extensions I use so please let me add my vote of thanks to the maintainers of Perl on VMS ...
    Mark BerrymanMark Berryman
    Jun 24, 2010 at 3:45 pm
    Jun 25, 2010 at 6:47 am
  • I am attempting to build Perl 5.12.1 on VMS V8.3 systems. I have tried both Alpha and Integrity, and with the build disk being both ODS-5 and ODS-2. In all cases the build aborts once it reaches the ...
    Mark BerrymanMark Berryman
    Jun 22, 2010 at 3:10 pm
    Jun 24, 2010 at 6:41 am
  • There is a new survey about Perl usage here: http://perl.websurvey.net.au/ VMS does show up as an option when they ask what OS people use Perl on. TPU and EDT do not show up when they ask what you ...
    Craig BerryCraig Berry
    May 25, 2010 at 6:10 pm
    May 25, 2010 at 6:10 pm
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