Add a note about a perl issue on VMS and how to work around it
I bug in perl's File::Spec->canonpath() was uncovered. There's nothing we can do about it (except re-implementing canonpath()), except working around the problem (a directory rename) and reporting the issue to the perl module developers. Reviewed-by: Rich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org>
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running the tests, as they affect the Perl interpreter.
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About ODS-5 directory names and Perl
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It seems that the perl function canonpath() in the File::Spec module
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doesn't treat file specifications where the last directory name
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contains periods very well. Unfortunately, some versions of VMS tar
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converting them to underscore, thereby leaving your source in
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something like [.openssl-1^.1^.0]. This will lead to issues when
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We have no replacement for Perl's canonpath(), so the best workaround
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About MMS and DCL
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About MMS and DCL
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