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From: cor@hacktic.nl (Cor)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps
Subject: Re: Perl-4.036?
Date: 13 Sep 1993 01:18:28 +0200
Organization: Hack-Tic, networking for the masses
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>Why don't you share your secrets with the likes of us who
>cannot get it to build? What does one have to do to make it compile AND
>PASS THE "make test"? I've adjusted the ALIGNBYTES->ALIGN_BYTES, but
>while it now compiles OK, it fails the tests "dbm" (a known condition)
>and "exp". The compilation put outs some disturbing warnings, I think it
>was during doio.c.

Actually..it fails the dbm test for me too. (not the 'exp' tho)
I dont know why it fails dbm..ive been using dbm files a lot..and
I havent seen anything wrong yet.

>FWIW, I've yet to find an off the shelf package to compile on
>FreeBSD-1.0. Not elm2.4, not screen-3.5.0, not several others. While I
>have no pressing need for any of these packages, it would be nice to
>have a unix on which they would compile without giving hassles.

Well..with all the flavors and differences between all the unices..
I doubt one can make everyone happy :)
screen3.5.0 compiled fine for me..no hassles.
elm2.4 took me a while..but it wasnt that bad..
then again..im running 386bsd..not FreeBSD
cor
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