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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uwm.edu!ogicse!psgrain!ee.und.ac.za!hippo.ru.ac.za!ccml From: ccml@hippo.ru.ac.za (Mike Lawrie) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps Subject: Re: Perl-4.036? Message-ID: <CD6t5H.Fo3@hippo.ru.ac.za> Date: 11 Sep 93 11:27:16 GMT Article-I.D.: hippo.CD6t5H.Fo3 References: <26fptu$1q1@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu> <26kvpr$ji0@pdq.coe.montana.edu> <26oolu$941@agate.berkeley.edu> Organization: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa Lines: 31 In <26oolu$941@agate.berkeley.edu> cuccia@remarque.berkeley.edu (Nick Cuccia) writes: >In article <26kvpr$ji0@pdq.coe.montana.edu>, >Nate Williams <nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu> wrote: >>In article <26fptu$1q1@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu>, >>Alex Tang <altitude@recycle.snre.umich.edu> wrote: >>>Hi. Has anybody ported perl-4.036 ( or at least gotten the thing to build?) >>>for Net/386/FreeBSD? >> >>Works like a champ under FreeBSD, has for a LONG time. As a matter of >>fact, my upgrade tools use a dumped perl script to convert the passwd >>file to the new crypt function or DES crypt from the old plain-text >>crypt. >And while I had problems with getting perl-4.036 to work with pre-0.9 NetBSD, >I had no problems, other than the db test failures, getting it to work with >NetBSD 0.9. My first attempt to compile perl-4.036 on FreeBSD 1.0-GAMMA failed - bitching about malloc. What are the "magic answers" that need to be provided to the Configure process to get this package to work such that there will be confidence in it? As far as I can determine, the answer to the "use perl's malloc" is "no", but what else is there that deviates from the defaults? Mike -- Mike Lawrie <ccml@hippo.ru.ac.za> Director, Computing Services ph +27 461 318279/80 Rhodes University, Drostdy Rd fx +27 461 25049 Grahamstown 6140, South Africa