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From: stickler@cc.helsinki.fi
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: perl for XENIX/286 ?? (please!)
Message-ID: <2912.26c931f8@cc.helsinki.fi>
Date: 15 Aug 90 11:28:56 GMT
Organization: University of Helsinki
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Howdy!

I'm ***very*** eager to get perl up and running on my XENIX
machine, but I get a core dump just after Configure finishes
(i.e. when it says to either type a carriage return to continue
or quit to edit things manually before compilation, I hit CR
and it dumps core).

My configuration is a follows:

16MHz 80286
1 MB RAM
10+ MB free disk space
3.5 MB allocated swap space

and I have been compiling in maintainance mode (so all possible
resources are available) using the large compiler model.

Is this too small a configuration for perl or (as I suspect) are
there needed special tweaks and adjustment for 286 XENIX??

Just to be extra explicit, I have SCO XENIX/286 version 2.2 and
have the entire development system installed (minus the DOS cross-
development stuff and the medium model libraries).

If anyone has successfully compiled perl on a similar platform,
I would be ever so grateful for the modified code or even the
pre-compiled executable(s).

Much thanks,


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