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From: eichin@athena.mit.edu (Mark W. Eichin)
Subject: Re: Installing perl-4.035 in 386BSD
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>> 5. compile following files manually.
	If you really have to do this (I had 16M RAM so I had no
problem) I'd suggest making a hints file that does the right thing, or
just hacking ccflags to notice those files and give different commands.

>> 10. make test.
>>	failed at dbm and lib/big.
	I posted about this a couple of months ago. The dbm failures
are not a problem (if you look closely, perl is checking file names
explicitly, and the BSD dbm is a funky one that only uses one file and
calls it something different...) However, the lib/big failures *are* a
problem, they apparently indicate some major floating point lossage
(even on my system which is a real 486...)

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