[Info-vax] Installing VMS Pascal on AXP

Single Stage to Orbit alex.buell at munted.eu
Thu Jul 28 16:04:21 EDT 2022


On Thu, 2022-07-28 at 09:07 -0700, John Reagan wrote:
> > %TRACE-I-END, end of TRACE stack dump 
> > VSI Pascal Installation aborted 
> > %VMSINSTAL-F-UNEXPECTED, Installation terminated due to unexpected 
> > event. 
> > 
> > VMSINSTAL procedure done at 15:20 
> > 
> > Any ideas? 

> That's odd.  It didn't do that for me.  Do you have older Pascal
> compilers on your system? (I don't think so or the installation would
> have said so).  The crash deep in DCL from PARSE_BOOL_QUAL is
> certainly inside of CLI$GET_VALUE or CLI$PRESENT.  The installation
> script would have done a SET COMMAND on the PASCAL.CLD in the kit. 
> We need to compile those PAS files into PEN files and if there isn't
> a compiler already on the system, we would use the compiler that is
> currently being installed.  The fact that we compiled several PAS
> files into PEN files before the crash makes it feel like some sort of
> quota issue maybe?

Yes, there are no other Pascal compiler on the system, and I don't
think there is any quotas set yet. I have tried SET PROC/DUMP and re-
running the Pascal installation, just to see where that takes me. 
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