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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps Subject: Re: Perl-4.036? Date: 13 Sep 1993 15:43:49 GMT Organization: Montana Stateu University, Bozeman MT Lines: 44 Message-ID: <2724fl$8fd@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <26fptu$1q1@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu> <26g7srINNppg@xs4all.hacktic.nl> <CD9Dy6.B51@hippo.ru.ac.za> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu In article <CD9Dy6.B51@hippo.ru.ac.za>, Mike Lawrie <ccml@hippo.ru.ac.za> wrote: >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? > >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. Hmm, never had a problem with the 'exp' tests.. See below. > >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. That is very strange. I compiled screen 3.5.0, 3.5.1, and 3.5.2 w/out any hassles at all under FreeBSD. (I don't call elm portable, as it requires hacking for almost every system) I would suggest to you that something is not installed correctly in your system if you are having problems with compiling sources of the Net on your FreeBSD system. There are very few things that require fixing with FreeBSD, and those that do are very simple things, and are no different than any other *nix that is in use. Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | In the middle of it ........ again. nate@cs.montana.edu | Running/supporting one of many freely available work #: (406) 994-4836 | Operating Systems for [34]86 machines. home #: (406) 586-0579 | (based on Net/2, name changes all the time :-)