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From: kgallagh@digi.lonestar.org (Kevin Gallagher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Using Larry Wall's Configure on Apollo [was Re: convergence ???]
Keywords: DomainOs, HP-UX, OSF
Message-ID: <696@digi.lonestar.org>
Date: 17 Jun 90 02:05:17 GMT
References: <1640@tuvie>
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In article <1640@tuvie> mike@tuvie (Inst.f.Techn.Informatik) writes: 
>[stuff deleted] 
>Talking about porting problems, can the latest version of Larry Wall's 
>latest version of Configure correctly diagnose DomainOS (especially
>whenn running bsd)?  
> 
I installed the latest version of Perl, patch level 18, on a 3550 with 8 meg,
which has DomainOS, Aegis, and BSD 4.3 installed.  I installed Perl while
running under BSD.  The Configure utility worked fine.  You will need your
Apollo BSD Command Reference manual ready so you can answer several of the
questions correctly.  I even turned on the Apollo C compiler optimizer (-O)
and did not have problems, except it took about 45 minutes to compile the file
eval.c, which has a very large switch statement.  (The Apollo C compiler
optimizer is very sloooooooow at handling large switch statements!)  It
generated an executable which passed the entire Perl test suite.  (This is
almost true.  One test in sleep.op, I believe, sometimes passes and sometimes
fails, but this should happen on ANY Unix system, I should think, because of
the way the test script is written.  It assumes that invoking a Unix sleep
function with an argument of n seconds will always result in sleeping for n or
more seconds.  On the Apollo, my tests show it will sleep for a period greater
than n-1 seconds and less than n+1 seconds.  I find this to be nothing to get
excited about.)