Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!samsung!usc!apple!oliveb!orc!decwrl!decwrl!vixie From: vixie@decwrl.dec.com (Paul A Vixie) Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl Subject: Re: perl 3.0.18 for DECstation 3100? Message-ID: Date: 13 Apr 90 22:00:43 GMT References: <1689@tuegate.tue.nl> Sender: news@decwrl.dec.com Organization: DEC Western Research Lab Lines: 24 In-reply-to: rcpt@tuegate.tue.nl's message of 13 Apr 90 11:18:26 GMT >> I have problems in getting Perl3.0.18 running on our DECstation 3100. A fellow Perl hacker here in corporate research told me recently that: Date: Sun, 1 Apr 90 04:09:44 -0400 From: treese@crl.dec.com (Win Treese) Message-Id: <9004010809.AA03533@crltrx.crl.dec.com> To: vixie@wrl.dec.com Subject: perl problems Never mind. The patch claimed to have fixed a problem introduced after PL 8 on MIPS machines -- using "volatile" doesn't work. At least on DEC MIPS machines, the patch didn't work. After running Config, if you change d_volatile to undef in config.sh things seem to work. - Win He promised to tell Larry, so PL19 will probably fix this. Meanwhile... -- Paul Vixie DEC Western Research Lab Palo Alto, California {ames,att,uunet}!decwrl!vixie