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^.II.tar
-
-or:
-
- vmstar -xvf perl-5^.11^.2.tar
+ vmstar -xvf perl-5^.15^.0.tar
Then rename the top-level source directory like so:
- set security/protection=(o:rwed) perl-5^.11^.2.dir
- rename perl-5^.11^.2.dir perl-5_11_2.dir
+ set security/protection=(o:rwed) perl-5^.15^.0.dir
+ rename perl-5^.15^.0.dir perl-5_15_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