[Info-vax] Installing VMS Pascal on AXP

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2022-07-28 kl. 22:04, skrev Single Stage to Orbit:
> 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.

Quotas are *always* set in one way or another.
I take it granted that you have ead the "Installation
Procedure Requirements" in the install manual.

But since the compiler is actally used by the install script,
I'd also look at the "After Installing VSI Pascal" section.

Anyway, if you still have all your quotas at the defaults,
just jack them up and try again.



  I have tried SET PROC/DUMP and re-
> running the Pascal installation, just to see where that takes me.