[Info-vax] Building Perl on VAX

[Daniel Sundqvist]

On Thursday, 11 July 2019 15:13:40 UTC+2, Craig A. Berry  wrote:
> On 7/10/19 8:06 PM, John E. Malmberg wrote:
> > On 7/10/2019 3:18 PM, Daniel Sundqvist wrote:
> >> Found this thread: 
> >> http://www.openvmshobbyist.com/forum/viewthread.php?forum_id=60&thread_id=2727 
> >>
> >>
> >> It seems like it should be possible to build 5.22 with some 
> >> modifications of the MMS file.
> > 
> > Sign up with the perl mailing list and become the VAX maintainer.
> 
> I'm afraid no currently-maintained or future version of Perl will add
> back the VAX support I removed four years ago (and it had been quite a
> while since I'd done a successful VAX build at that point).  If you're
> going to run an ancient, unsupported operating system, I don't think
> you'll be too worried about running ancient, unsupported software on it.
> 
> I too wish there were a free, non-crippled Alpha emulator available, but
> its absence is not really a very good reason to struggle through trying
> to support modern software on VAX.

Yeah I see no point in maintaing a current Perl version with VAX support. But it's sad that the last version still supporting VAX don't even build. Maybe a patch would be of value for some people, like VMS hobbyist.

As a hobbyist who wan't some practical usage of my VMS system, a webserver like WASD with Perl 5 CGI support would enable some basic web development and web hosting on the system.

Are you the maintainer of the Perl VMS support? I'm struggling with trying to understand what is ment by this (from the thread above that explains how to make 5.22 build on VAX):

"The MAKEFILE.PL in the [.EXT.DYNALOADER] needs to be updated to add \$(NOECHO) \$(NOOP) as an action aver the static :: $object line."

The file in question:

https://github.com/Perl/perl5/blob/maint-5.22/ext/DynaLoader/Makefile.PL

Daniel