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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.exodus.net!hudsucker.cyborganic.com!user From: jsd@hess.com (j.d.) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.lang.perl.misc Subject: perl 5.001m dbm problems on BSDI 2.0.1 Date: Wed, 07 Feb 1996 17:13:57 -0800 Organization: exodus communications, inc. Lines: 39 Message-ID: <jsd-0702961713570001@hudsucker.cyborganic.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: hudsucker.cyborganic.com X-Newsreader: Yet Another NewsWatcher 2.1.6 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:2394 comp.lang.perl.misc:15857 has anybody successfully compiled perl 5.001m under BSDI 2.0.1 and got the dbm stuff to work? here's the output from TEST: lib/anydbm.....FAILED on test 0 lib/bigint.....ok lib/bigintpm...ok lib/db-btree...ok lib/db-hash....ok lib/db-recno...ok lib/english....ok lib/gdbm.......ok lib/ndbm.......FAILED on test 0 lib/odbm.......ok lib/posix......ok lib/sdbm.......ok lib/soundex....ok and more detail: # lib/anydbm.t 1..12 ok 1 ok 2 Segmentation fault (core dumped) # lib/ndbm.t 1..12 ok 1 ok 2 Illegal instruction (core dumped) for some weird reason, it works fine on my old BSDI 1.1 machine. this is causing mega grief since we use the 1.1 machine to develop our web sites and the 2.0 machine to publish them to the world. so stuff that works ok when in development bombs out when put live. help!!