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From: meyer@gorgo.ifi.unizh.ch (Urs Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: perl under Irix 3.2.2
Message-ID: <1990Jul30.132351.26440@gorgo.ifi.unizh.ch>
Date: 30 Jul 90 13:23:51 GMT
References: <1587@merlin.bhpmrl.oz.au>
Organization: University of Zurich, Department of Computer Science
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In article <1587@merlin.bhpmrl.oz.au> ianh@bhpmrl.oz.au (Ian Hoyle) writes:
>Are there any tricks to building Larry Wall's perl under Irix (3.2.2) ??? 
>After running Configure and then a "make", "make test" fails in 2 places:
>
>1) op.eval dumps core after 6 iterations eg.
[...]
>ok 6
>Segmentation fault (core dumped)
>
>2) op.s runs out of memory after 39 iterations
[...]
>ok 39
>Out of memory!
>
>Any clues would be much appreciated
>
>			ian

I installed perl 3 pl 18 on a 4D/70GT with IRIX 3.2.1 and had the same
problems.  I didn't try a lot of things but the following should do it:

- compile perl with -O0 (no optimizations at all)
- use the perl supplied malloc

(I didn't try -O1 due to lack of time.)

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