From anders.wallin@seb.se

I have encountered som problems installing the latest stable release on my
OpenVMS (alpha) server. Any suggestions?

=============== extracts from installation =======================
  chmod 444 /perl_root/lib/VMS_AXP/5_00503/CORE/lib/vms_axp/5_00503/auto.dir
Couldn't chmod 444
/perl_root/lib/VMS_AXP/5_00503/CORE/lib/vms_axp/5_00503/auto.
dir​: file specification syntax error

  cp lib/vms_axp/5_00503/config.pm
/perl_root/lib/VMS_AXP/5_00503/CORE/lib/vms_a
xp/5_00503/config.pm
Couldn't copy lib/vms_axp/5_00503/config.pm to
/perl_root/lib/VMS_AXP/5_00503/CO
RE/lib/vms_axp/5_00503/config.pm​: directory not found

  chmod 444
/perl_root/lib/VMS_AXP/5_00503/CORE/lib/vms_axp/5_00503/config.pm
Couldn't chmod 444
/perl_root/lib/VMS_AXP/5_00503/CORE/lib/vms_axp/5_00503/confi
g.pm​: file specification syntax error

  chmod 444 /perl_root/lib/VMS_AXP/5_00503/CORE/lib/vms_axp/5_00503/core.dir
Couldn't chmod 444
/perl_root/lib/VMS_AXP/5_00503/CORE/lib/vms_axp/5_00503/core.
dir​: file specification syntax error

  cp utils/perlcc.Com /perl_root/000000/perlcc.Com
Couldn't copy utils/perlcc.Com to /perl_root/000000/perlcc.Com​: no such file
or
directory
  chmod 755 /perl_root/000000/perlcc.Com
Couldn't chmod 755 /perl_root/000000/perlcc.Com​: no such file or directory

=============== End of extract from installation ========================

=============== List generated with perlbug =================

Site configuration information for perl 5.00503​:

Configured by unknown at Tue dec 28 17​:28​:37.74 1999.

Summary of my perl5 (5.0 patchlevel 5 subversion 3) configuration​:
  Platform​:
  osname=VMS, osvers=V6.2-1H3, archname=VMS_AXP
  uname='VMS seb100 V6.2-1H3 AlphaServer 1000A 5/400'
  hint=none, useposix=false, d_sigaction=undef
  usethreads=undef useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef
  Compiler​:
  cc='CC/DECC', optimize='undef', gccversion=undef
  cppflags='undef'
  ccflags ='/Include=[]/Standard=Relaxed_ANSI/Prefix=All/Obj=.obj/NoList'
  stdchar='char', d_stdstdio=define, usevfork=true
  intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8
  d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=16
  alignbytes=8, usemymalloc=N, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries​:
  ld='Link', ldflags ='/NoTrace/NoMap'
  libpth=/sys$share /sys$library
  libs=
  libc=(DECCRTL), so=exe, useshrplib=undef, libperl=undef
  Dynamic Linking​:
  dlsrc=dl_vms.c, dlext=exe, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=''
  cccdlflags='', lddlflags='/Share'

Locally applied patches​:

@​INC for perl 5.00503​:
  perl_root​:[lib.VMS_AXP.5_00503]
  perl_root​:[lib]
  perl_root​:[lib.site_perl.VMS_AXP]
  perl_root​:[lib.site_perl]
  .

Environment for perl 5.00503​:
  HOME=user​:[s95697]
  LANG (unset)
  LANGUAGE (unset)
  LD_LIBRARY_PATH (unset)
  LOGDIR (unset)
  PATH=disk14​:<perl5_005_03>
  PERLSHR=PERL_ROOT​:[000000]PERLSHR.EXE
  PERL_BADLANG (unset)
  PERL_ROOT=DISK104​:[PERL5_005_03.]
  SHELL (unset)

From [Unknown Contact. See original ticket]

At 06​:28 PM 12/28/99 +0100, anders.wallin@​seb.se wrote​:

Hello !

I have encountered som problems installing the latest stable release on my
OpenVMS (alpha) server. Any suggestions?

Don't sweat it--you're OK. Those are quirks of the install on VMS, but
they're not a problem.

  Dan

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