provided with previous versions of Perl, do I<not> use the ODS-2
compatibility qualifier. Instead, use a command like the following:
- vmstar -xvf perl-5^.15^.4.tar
+ vmstar -xvf perl-5^.17^.0.tar
Then rename the top-level source directory like so:
- set security/protection=(o:rwed) perl-5^.15^.4.dir
- rename perl-5^.15^.4.dir perl-5_15_4.dir
+ set security/protection=(o:rwed) perl-5^.17^.0.dir
+ rename perl-5^.17^.0.dir perl-5_17_0.dir
The reason for this last step is that while filenames with multiple dots
are generally supported by Perl on VMS, I<directory> names with multiple