=head1 NAME
-README.vms - Configuring, building, testing, and installing perl on VMS
+perlvms - Configuring, building, testing, and installing perl on VMS
=head1 SYNOPSIS
best bet is to unpack the Perl source kit on an ODS-5 volume using
recent versions of vmstar (e.g. V3.4 or later). Contrary to advice
provided with previous versions of Perl, do I<not> use the ODS-2
-compatability qualifier. Instead, use a command like the following:
+compatibility qualifier. Instead, use a command like the following:
- vmstar /extract/verbose perl-V^.XI^.I.tar
-
-or:
-
- vmstar -xvf perl-5^.11^.1.tar
+ vmstar -xvf perl-5^.15^.1.tar
Then rename the top-level source directory like so:
- set security/protection=(o:rwed) perl-5^.11^.1.dir
- rename perl-5^.11^.1.dir perl-5_11_1.dir
+ set security/protection=(o:rwed) perl-5^.15^.1.dir
+ rename perl-5^.15^.1.dir perl-5_15_1.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