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From: ccml@hippo.ru.ac.za (Mike Lawrie)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl,comp.os.386bsd.apps
Subject: Re: Perl 4.036 on NetBSD 0.8 (386, no 387)
Message-ID: <CC0tH4.2Bo@hippo.ru.ac.za>
Date: 19 Aug 93 19:15:02 GMT
Article-I.D.: hippo.CC0tH4.2Bo
References: <1993Aug18.204209.11560@ohare.Chicago.COM>
Organization: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
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In <1993Aug18.204209.11560@ohare.Chicago.COM> kls@ohare.Chicago.COM (Karl Swartz) writes:

>... bringing up Perl, 4.036.......[Netbsd 0.8]
>Alas, several of the tests failed.  The first was trivil: op/dbm tests
>2 and 9 failed because no .pag file was created (nor is there a .dir
>file, though the test didn't care that the unlink failed).  Instead
>there is a .db file.  Fine.

>The other was lib/big.t, which rather spectacularly failed 42 out of
>its 246 tests.  I looked at it a bit but the problem isn't immediately
>obvious.  Does anyone have an idea what the problem is, and how I
>might go about fixing it?  I've attached the output from this test in
>case it's of any help.

FWIW, these errors occur with 386bsd when I tried to install perl-4.036.
There was no comment from the net, which is most unusual. Surely someone
somewhere has managed to get this to work, and would be willing to share
knowledge?

Mike
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