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From: jn@ukc.ac.uk (J.Nash)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: perl on DECstation
Message-ID: <4849@harrier.ukc.ac.uk>
Date: 3 Jun 90 23:21:49 GMT
References: <22435@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <BOGAART.90Jun2214609@serc.serc.nl>
Reply-To: jn@ukc.ac.uk (J.Nash)
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Organization: Computing Lab, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.
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In article <BOGAART.90Jun2214609@serc.serc.nl> bogaart@serc.serc.nl (Eugene &) writes:
$op.sort  1. Below the test, what it does is not sorting, it leaves it
$in the original state. 
$
$	@harry = ('dog','cat','x','Cain','Abel');
$
$	$x = join('', sort @harry);
$	print ($x eq 'AbelCaincatdogx' ? "ok 1\n" : "not ok 1\n");
$
$Am I completely lost ? Does any one had this problem before? Is

Yeah, I got this out of our DECstations.  I found that the
memcmp() routine was screwed and produced silly results.  A quick
fix for this is to edit the config.sh file when Configure prompts
you, and undef the memcmp line.  Perl then builds and passes
all the tests.

Hope this helps.

	Jarod