[Module-build-general] [PATCH] Getting Module::Build working on VMS

[Michael G S. <sc...@po...>]

The attached patch gets Module::Build working on VMS.  Its dead simple and
resolves three issues:

- You can't safely put switches after $Config{startperl}
- The comfortable VMS equivalent to ./Build is @Build which means Build.PL
  should generate Build.com
- VMS likes to drop cases unless specially quoted.  "@Build test" will
  pass "TEST" rather than "test".  So we make argv->action translation
  case-insensitive as opposed to requiring special command line quoting.

And that's it.  All tests pass.  One fix, two overrides.  After a hard week 
of fighting with MakeMaker its always a pleasure to glide through 
Module::Build.

I encourage vmsperl module authors to RUN, do not walk, to their editors 
and convert their modules from MakeMaker to Module::Build.


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