john e malmberg ho0ebgqslnet craig berry wrote 102707 john e malmberg wrote patches actually get vms beyond little bit compatt run vms could determine image present still assumes vms sounds promising couldnt test determine whether make make equivalent present probably need make generic method called see program present checking ones accessed dcl requires either reading dcl tables knowing real image name know source verb also fun tests gnv gnu utilities found names dcl verbs modulebuildpm vmsish os vms make program one mmk mms seems wrong assumes wed need things natively run compatibility mode think leave general property compatibility mode needs something else well something else two cases one want run gnu make vms common running mmsmmk vms running gnu make vms crtl likely unix report mode vmsish behavior generally desired catdir catfile since concatenating blib directory shouldnt catdir look concatenating blib rel_file to_file filespeccatdir ppm blib filespeccatfile ppm blib exists typestype typestype type rel_file add filenames generated vms manifest skip list good ive meaning awhile get opt lis think compatpm glob vms handle tildes use modulebuild_detildefy help generated makefile descripmms needs changes mmsmmk 1 perl image needs preceded mcr probably get away find_perl_interpreter override spawned perl add hurt already spawning things like mms mmk obviously need changed cases descripmms generated start supporting gnu make vms mcr would wanted could mess things patch compatt passes tests sounds promising except nits ive noted still two issues module build vms 1 ppmt fails apparently creating corrupt compressed tarball could get hints tarball generated could try find corrupt least come op simpler reproducer 2 xst failing misinterpreting lookup blib failing run perl debugger think way find start adding print statements since debugger changes things john ho0ebgqslnet personal opinion thu 07 aug 2008 003717 0500 b beta cpan patches vms