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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU!werple.apana.org.au!boombox.apana.org.au!maenor!giles From: giles@maenor.apana.org.au (Giles Lean) Subject: Re: Perl: random errors References: <2bio9sEeg8@uni-erlangen.de> Date: Mon, 8 Nov 93 09:51:30 GMT Message-ID: <1993Nov8.095130.2796@maenor.apana.org.au> Lines: 22 eilts@late.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de (Hinrich Eilts) writes: >I compiled Perl 4.036 on netbsd-0.9 (configured: i386, all >questions from configure answered with defaults) and got only a >few warnings. >But "make test" failed in a random manner, i.e. every run resulted in >different errors: I found this too. I also found that the math emulation is not working on netsbd-0.9. (Both Intel 486SX and Cyrix chips.) Since perl uses doubles for all numeric work things break. Since I've been reading this group I've not seen a mention of the problem; a friend muttered that perhaps it had been fixed in netbsd-current. Giles P.S. You could try re-compiling everything with -msoft-float. I have had various unrelated (?) problems doing that, so can't assure you that it will work. -- <giles@maenor.apana.org.au> +61 3 480 2118 (h) +61 3 628 0361 (w)