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From: rcpt@tuegate.tue.nl (Piet Tutelaers)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: perl 3.0.18 for DECstation 3100?
Keywords: installation problems
Message-ID: <1689@tuegate.tue.nl>
Date: 13 Apr 90 11:18:26 GMT
Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
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I have problems in getting Perl3.0.18 running on our DECstation 3100.
Everythings compiles the first time, except that optimization needs an
extra flag (-Olimit 3000, 3000 is a save value) for the next source files:
	eval.c toke.c teval.c ttoke.c walk.c.
The test `make test' reports errors on the following two tests:
	op.eval.........FAILED on test 7
	op.s............FAILED on test 40

I have despite these two errors perl installed and tested with the perl
manscripts from Tom Christiansen, the real reason I wanted perl! But I get
the next serious error:
	man man
	data size rlimit exceeded, pid 3189, proc perl
	Out of memory!
(The DECstation has 24MB of internal memory.)

With the makewhatis-script I get:
	makewhatis /usr/man
	couldn't do "stat.pl": No such file or directory at
	/usr/local/bin/makewhatis line 357.

As is suggested in the README file I have compiled everything with the
compiler flag -DCRIPPLED_CC, but I get the same problems as above.

Is this problem known and are there solutions for it? If not what can I do
to get a working perl?

Thanks for your attention,

Piet Tutelaers
rcpt@urc.tue.nl