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From: gorpong@ping.uucp (Gordon C. Galligher)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: PERL 3.0 PL28 defined(&foo) test does not work on SCO UNIX
Message-ID: <1990Sep10.052102.5148@ping.uucp>
Date: 10 Sep 90 05:21:02 GMT
Organization: The 23rd. Century
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Due to many problems I was having with Perl 3.0/PL28 on an SCO UNIX 3.2
system, I decided to re-make all of it and apply all patches from 19-28.
Upon getting it to that stage, I noticed a bug.  When executing t/op.undef
it fails on test 20.  This tests the defined(...) operator to test the
existence of a function.  It always returns FALSE (or whatever FALSE is
in PERL).  I have not had the opportunity to delve into the source to 
submit a quick patch for any SCO UNIX sites out there.  All other tests
worked (except for op.dbm).

I have been having another problem on EVERY perl system dealing with
packages, but that is a different subject, and I need to do more testing
before I post anything on it.

Any idea on why defined(&fcn) is broken?  Comments, Larry?
(I did have to apply patch28 by hand because it was totally corrupted, so
I do know that the entire thing was done.  None of the other patches even
hiccuped.)

OTHER SCO UNIX INFO::
=====================
You may already know this but I am posting this for others who may have
SCO Unix out there.
	1).  You must give the -Sm10000 option to yacc
	2).  You must use the 'rcc' compiler, NOT 'cc'
	3).  You need to /*#define ODBM in config.h.  The dbm test just
	     hangs in PL28.  It works on PL18, except for test 10, so I
	     do believe something in PL28 has caused it to break.
	4).  The obvious problem with defined(&fcn) which I mentioned
	     earlier.

I hope this helps, and any help on why defined(&fcn) fails would be greatly
appreciated.

		-- Gordon.
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