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From: davis@hobbes.chem.uh.edu (Malcolm Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Need help building PERL on an SGI 4D70 running IRIX 3.3.1
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Date: 16 Oct 90 15:34:49 GMT
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I have been trying to build perl 3.0 patchlevel 28 on a Silicon Graphics
4D70 running IRIX 3.3.1.  I have tried a number of different times with
different configurations.  The program compiles fine, but when I run
`make test' it complains that no tests have been run.  Running t/TEST
directly produces the same result.  Some of the individual tests run fine
while others die.  Bash returns an error "Broken Pipe".  As an example,
using the debugger, I have found that io.argv dies on the line

$x = `./perl -e 'while (<>) {print \$.,\$_;}' Io.argv.tmp Io.argv.tmp`;

I have a list of the tests that fail and I am preparing to go in and search
for commonalities, but I thought I'd first check to see if anyone has already
solved this problem.

Thanks in advance,
Malcolm E. Davis

E-mail : davis@hobbes.chem.uh.edu
US-mail: Dept. of Chem.; Univ. of Houston; Houston, TX 77204-5641
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Malcolm

"Time flies like an arrow.  Fruit flies like a banana."