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NAME
    ExtUtils::MM_VMS - methods to override UN*X behaviour in ExtUtils::MakeMaker

SYNOPSIS
      Do not use this directly.
      Instead, use ExtUtils::MM and it will figure out which MM_*
      class to use for you.

DESCRIPTION
    See ExtUtils::MM_Unix for a documentation of the methods provided there. This package overrides
    the implementation of these methods, not the semantics.

  Methods always loaded
    wraplist
        Converts a list into a string wrapped at approximately 80 columns.

  Methods
    Those methods which override default MM_Unix methods are marked "(override)", while methods
    unique to MM_VMS are marked "(specific)". For overridden methods, documentation is limited to an
    explanation of why this method overrides the MM_Unix method; see the ExtUtils::MM_Unix
    documentation for more details.

    guess_name (override)
        Try to determine name of extension being built. We begin with the name of the current
        directory. Since VMS filenames are case-insensitive, however, we look for a .pm file whose
        name matches that of the current directory (presumably the 'main' .pm file for this
        extension), and try to find a "package" statement from which to obtain the Mixed::Case
        package name.

    find_perl (override)
        Use VMS file specification syntax and CLI commands to find and invoke Perl images.

    _fixin_replace_shebang (override)
        Helper routine for MM->fixin(), overridden because there's no such thing as an actual
        shebang line that will be interpreted by the shell, so we just prepend $Config{startperl}
        and preserve the shebang line argument for any switches it may contain.

    maybe_command (override)
        Follows VMS naming conventions for executable files. If the name passed in doesn't exactly
        match an executable file, appends .Exe (or equivalent) to check for executable image, and
        .Com to check for DCL procedure. If this fails, checks directories in DCL$PATH and finally
        Sys$System: for an executable file having the name specified, with or without the
        .Exe-equivalent suffix.

    pasthru (override)
        The list of macro definitions to be passed through must be specified using the /MACRO
        qualifier and must not add another /DEFINE qualifier. We prepend our own comma here to the
        contents of $(PASTHRU_DEFINE) because it is often empty and a comma always present in
        CCFLAGS would generate a missing qualifier value error.

    pm_to_blib (override)
        VMS wants a dot in every file so we can't have one called 'pm_to_blib', it becomes
        'pm_to_blib.' and MMS/K isn't smart enough to know that when you have a target called
        'pm_to_blib' it should look for 'pm_to_blib.'.

        So in VMS its pm_to_blib.ts.

    perl_script (override)
        If name passed in doesn't specify a readable file, appends .com or .pl and tries again,
        since it's customary to have file types on all files under VMS.

    replace_manpage_separator
        Use as separator a character which is legal in a VMS-syntax file name.

    init_DEST
        (override) Because of the difficulty concatenating VMS filepaths we must pre-expand the
        DEST* variables.

    init_DIRFILESEP
        No separator between a directory path and a filename on VMS.

    init_main (override)
    init_tools (override)
        Provide VMS-specific forms of various utility commands.

        Sets DEV_NULL to nothing because I don't know how to do it on VMS.

        Changes EQUALIZE_TIMESTAMP to set revision date of target file to one second later than
        source file, since MMK interprets precisely equal revision dates for a source and target
        file as a sign that the target needs to be updated.

    init_platform (override)
        Add PERL_VMS, MM_VMS_REVISION and MM_VMS_VERSION.

        MM_VMS_REVISION is for backwards compatibility before MM_VMS had a $VERSION.

    platform_constants
    init_VERSION (override)
        Override the *DEFINE_VERSION macros with VMS semantics. Translate the MAKEMAKER filepath to
        VMS style.

    constants (override)
        Fixes up numerous file and directory macros to insure VMS syntax regardless of input syntax.
        Also makes lists of files comma-separated.

    special_targets
        Clear the default .SUFFIXES and put in our own list.

    cflags (override)
        Bypass shell script and produce qualifiers for CC directly (but warn user if a shell script
        for this extension exists). Fold multiple /Defines into one, since some C compilers pay
        attention to only one instance of this qualifier on the command line.

    const_cccmd (override)
        Adds directives to point C preprocessor to the right place when handling #include
        <sys/foo.h> directives. Also constructs CC command line a bit differently than MM_Unix
        method.

    tools_other (override)
        Throw in some dubious extra macros for Makefile args.

        Also keep around the old $(SAY) macro in case somebody's using it.

    init_dist (override)
        VMSish defaults for some values.

          macro         description                     default

          ZIPFLAGS      flags to pass to ZIP            -Vu

          COMPRESS      compression command to          gzip
                        use for tarfiles
          SUFFIX        suffix to put on                -gz
                        compressed files

          SHAR          shar command to use             vms_share

          DIST_DEFAULT  default target to use to        tardist
                        create a distribution

          DISTVNAME     Use VERSION_SYM instead of      $(DISTNAME)-$(VERSION_SYM)
                        VERSION for the name

    c_o (override)
        Use VMS syntax on command line. In particular, $(DEFINE) and $(PERL_INC) have been pulled
        into $(CCCMD). Also use MM[SK] macros.

    xs_c (override)
        Use MM[SK] macros.

    xs_o (override)
        Use MM[SK] macros, and VMS command line for C compiler.

    _xsbuild_replace_macro (override)
        There is no simple replacement possible since a qualifier and all its subqualifiers must be
        considered together, so we use our own utility routine for the replacement.

    _xsbuild_value (override)
        Convert the extension spec to Unix format, as that's what will match what's in the XSBUILD
        data structure.

    dlsyms (override)
        Create VMS linker options files specifying universal symbols for this extension's shareable
        image(s), and listing other shareable images or libraries to which it should be linked.

    xs_obj_opt
        Override to fixup -o flags.

    dynamic_lib (override)
        Use VMS Link command.

    xs_make_static_lib (override)
        Use VMS commands to manipulate object library.

    static_lib_pure_cmd (override)
        Use VMS commands to manipulate object library.

    xs_static_lib_is_xs
    extra_clean_files
        Clean up some OS specific files. Plus the temp file used to shorten a lot of commands. And
        the name mangler database.

    zipfile_target
    tarfile_target
    shdist_target
        Syntax for invoking shar, tar and zip differs from that for Unix.

    install (override)
        Work around DCL's 255 character limit several times,and use VMS-style command line quoting
        in a few cases.

    perldepend (override)
        Use VMS-style syntax for files; it's cheaper to just do it directly here than to have the
        MM_Unix method call "catfile" repeatedly. Also, if we have to rebuild Config.pm, use MM[SK]
        to do it.

    makeaperl (override)
        Undertake to build a new set of Perl images using VMS commands. Since VMS does dynamic
        loading, it's not necessary to statically link each extension into the Perl image, so this
        isn't the normal build path. Consequently, it hasn't really been tested, and may well be
        incomplete.

    maketext_filter (override)
        Ensure that colons marking targets are preceded by space, in order to distinguish the target
        delimiter from a colon appearing as part of a filespec.

    prefixify (override)
        prefixifying on VMS is simple. Each should simply be:

            perl_root:[some.dir]

        which can just be converted to:

            volume:[your.prefix.some.dir]

        otherwise you get the default layout.

        In effect, your search prefix is ignored and $Config{vms_prefix} is used instead.

    cd
    oneliner
    echo
        perl trips up on "<foo>" thinking it's an input redirect. So we use the native Write command
        instead. Besides, it's faster.

    quote_literal
    escape_dollarsigns
        Quote, don't escape.

    escape_all_dollarsigns
        Quote, don't escape.

    escape_newlines
    max_exec_len
        256 characters.

    init_linker
    catdir (override)
    catfile (override)
        Eliminate the macros in the output to the MMS/MMK file.

        (File::Spec::VMS used to do this for us, but it's being removed)

    eliminate_macros
        Expands MM[KS]/Make macros in a text string, using the contents of identically named
        elements of %$self, and returns the result as a file specification in Unix syntax.

        NOTE: This is the canonical version of the method. The version in File::Spec::VMS is
        deprecated.

    fixpath
           my $path = $mm->fixpath($path);
           my $path = $mm->fixpath($path, $is_dir);

        Catchall routine to clean up problem MM[SK]/Make macros. Expands macros in any directory
        specification, in order to avoid juxtaposing two VMS-syntax directories when MM[SK] is run.
        Also expands expressions which are all macro, so that we can tell how long the expansion is,
        and avoid overrunning DCL's command buffer when MM[KS] is running.

        fixpath() checks to see whether the result matches the name of a directory in the current
        default directory and returns a directory or file specification accordingly. $is_dir can be
        set to true to force fixpath() to consider the path to be a directory or false to force it
        to be a file.

        NOTE: This is the canonical version of the method. The version in File::Spec::VMS is
        deprecated.

    os_flavor
        VMS is VMS.

    is_make_type (override)
        None of the make types being checked for is viable on VMS, plus our $self->{MAKE} is an
        unexpanded (and unexpandable) macro whose value is known only to the make utility itself.

    make_type (override)
        Returns a suitable string describing the type of makefile being written.

AUTHOR
    Original author Charles Bailey bailey AT newman.edu

    Maintained by Michael G Schwern schwern AT pobox.com

    See ExtUtils::MakeMaker for patching and contact information.