Re: [Module::Build] Re: Module::Build status on VMS

[Ken W. <ke...@ma...>]

On Jan 26, 2006, at 11:45 AM, Craig A. Berry wrote:

> The pathname is ok.  The test can't find it because it really doesn't
> exist because it got deleted by DistGen->clean(), which doesn't
> recognize it as one of the directories in its cache of directory
> names.  The basic issues revolve around VMS filespec idiosyncracies.
> For example, we'll have to call splitpath before splitdir if we want
> the device name to be separated from the first directory name:
>
> $ perl -e "use File::Spec; print join('|', 
> File::Spec->splitdir('DEV:[foo.bar]'));"
> DEV:[foo|bar
> $ perl -e "use File::Spec; print join('|', 
> File::Spec->splitpath('DEV:[foo.bar]'));"
> DEV:|[foo.bar]|

Yup, thanks for spotting that.  Other platforms with volume names can 
presumably be affected by this too.

> On VMS, searching the path is the least common mechanism for locating
> the program that will execute a command.  I think instead of
> find_in_path() we'll have to abstract this into a make_is_installed()
> or something that can do different things when necessary.

That would be great.

  -Ken