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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!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: <CD9Dy6.B51@hippo.ru.ac.za> Date: 12 Sep 93 20:51:41 GMT Article-I.D.: hippo.CD9Dy6.B51 References: <26fptu$1q1@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu> <26g7srINNppg@xs4all.hacktic.nl> Organization: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa Lines: 28 In <26g7srINNppg@xs4all.hacktic.nl> cor@hacktic.nl (Cor) writes: >altitude@recycle.snre.umich.edu (Alex Tang) writes: >>Hi. Has anybody ported perl-4.036 ( or at least gotten the thing to build?) >>for Net/386/FreeBSD? >I got it to compile yeah..works great. There was initially a problem >with 'cc', but thats gone when using gcc. 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. 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. 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