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From: evans@decvaxdec.com (Marc Evans Ultrix Q/A)
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Subject: Re: Perl under Machi386
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Date: 2 Aug 90 11:17:54 GMT
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In article <283@sun13.scri.fsu.edu>, nall@sun8.scri.fsu.edu (John Nall) writes:
|> Since I just got Machi386 up and running on my 386 system, and
|> am doing different things to check it out, one of the things I
|> decided to do was to ftp Perl over from the Sun (checking out
|> the ftp capability, among other things) and see how well it
|> would do under Mach.
|> 
|> Things seemed to go pretty well, but when it got to the point
|> of doing (during the "make") a "ldbm -lm -o perl" I got a couple
|> of error messages and and *** Exit 1 from make.
|> 
|> The error messages were:
|> 
|> seekdir.o: Undefined symbol _DONT_USE_SEEKDIR_UNDER_MACH referenced
|>            from text segment
|> telldir.o: Undefined symbol _DONT-USE-TELLDIR_UNDER_MACH referenced
|> 	   from text segment

I have had simular problems under OSF/1 (snap4). I'll see if I can get the
necessary permission to pass the diffs along to this group...

- Marc

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