[Info-vax] PERL for OpenVMS Alpha that will install on V8.4

[David Froble]

VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> In article <l7dlin$osk$1 at dont-email.me>, "Craig A. Berry" <craigberry at nospam.mac.com> writes:
>> On 11/30/13, 2:32 PM, VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
>>> In article <l7dbo7$n3$1 at dont-email.me>, Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> writes:
>>>> Perl 5.8.6 is rather old.   A Perl 5.18.1 kit is available here
>>>> <http://sourceforge.net/projects/vmsperlkit/files/> with some doc here
>>>> <http://search.cpan.org/~rjbs/perl-5.18.1/pod/perlvms.pod>
>> And the source code that builds the kits is also available at that site,
>> so if I should've done something differently, folks are welcome to
>> suggest changes. For example, it wasn't worth it to me to spend another
>> day or two of my life figuring out CDSA to produce signed kits. But if
>> it's worth it to someone else, have at it and let me know how it goes.
>>
>>
>>>> FWIW,
>>>> there's a note around that Sourceforge prohibits the use of $ in
>>>> filenames, so you might have to rename some files.
>> I dodged that bullet with the final kits by distributing .SFX_AXPEXE and
>> ..SFX_I64EXE rather than .PCSI$COMPRESSED.
>>
>>>> I've wondered why HP bothers with these sorts of small patch kits.
>> No need to wonder as they don't bother producing kits at all anymore.
>>
>>> OK.  But the COMPRESS-RAW-ZLIB I downloaded from CPAN now pukes on the
>>> $PERL MAKEFILE.PL :(
>>>
>> Luckily, it doesn't matter since Compress::Raw::Zlib has been included
>> in the core Perl distribution since 5.10, so if you've installed the
>> 5.18.1 kit, you already have it -- no need to install.
> 
> What ELSE is in there that I no longer need to install???
> 

I'm so tempted to say PERL ....

Ooops, guess I already did ...

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