[Info-vax] Installing VMS Pascal on AXP

Single Stage to Orbit alex.buell at munted.eu
Thu Jul 28 18:19:44 EDT 2022


On Thu, 2022-07-28 at 09:07 -0700, John Reagan wrote:
> 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?

I have managed to get Pascal installed. I simply told it to install
Pascal without all the other bits (STARLET etc), that was successful. I
have now re-run the installer to get all the other bits installed.
Fingers crossed all is good ...
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