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From: kenh@wrl.epi.com (Ken Hornstein)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: FreeBSD: perl-4.036 fails op/dbm.t test. Need help.
Date: 28 Dec 1993 00:52:09 -0500
Organization: Entropic Research Laboratory, Washington DC
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In article <CIov9E.4o2@luva.stgt.sub.org>,
Michael Giegerich <migieger@luva.stgt.sub.org> wrote:
>
>I recently compiled perl-4.036 (answered yes to all Configure
>questions after deciding for none when being asked for a pre-
>compiled configure file).
>BTW, I had to switch to bash (from tcsh) to avoid an error
>with the perl malloc.c.

I don't really understand why changing your shell would help you to compile
a C module, but what do I know? :-)

>Anyway, when testing perl all tests passed - only the above
>mentioned op/dbm.t failed :-(

If you run the test by hand, you'll see that the points where it fails is
where is checks for the existance of .dir and .pag files; the dbm routines
used in the *BSD systems create only one file ending .db.  You can safely
ignore those test fail messages.

--Ken