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From: gorpong@ping.uucp (Gordon C. Galligher)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: PERL PL37 tests failed on SCO UNIX V.3.2
Message-ID: <1990Oct23.045508.6172@ping.uucp>
Date: 23 Oct 90 04:55:08 GMT
Organization: The 23rd. Century
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Perl version 3.0 PL37, compiled on SCO UNIX V.3.2 with GCC 1.37.1, without
COFF (cannot get it working), using SCO UNIX's as and ld (cannot use
Gnu's).  I get errors with make test (op.dbm fails test 3, op.exec fails
test 4, and op.undef fails test 20).

Has anyone been able to get Perl PL37 working on SCO UNIX?  Should I use
the Microsoft compiler, or the AT&T compiler?  I compiled it with -g -O
-DDEBUGGING, should I not use one of these?  I think I will try it with
the -O removed and see what happens, but I am just appealing to others out
there, who I am sure have SCO UNIX and have at least attempted to get
PERL PL37 working.  Info follows (mainly it is superfluous, but it is
here for a quick check on what I have, instead of attempting to pick
apart this verbose description to find the pertinent info.   Any help, 
pointers, etc. would be greatly appreciated.

		-- Gordon.

System   :  80386 20Mhz.
O/S      :  SCO UNIX System V.3.2
RAM      :  4 Mb.
Compiler :  GNU C-Compiler version 1.37.1 (no COFF)
Assembler:  as
Linker   :  ld
Malloc   :  System's, NOT perl's

Perl -v:
========
This is perl, version 3.0

$Header: perly.c,v 3.0.1.8 90/10/16 10:14:20 lwall Locked $
Patch level: 37

Copyright (c) 1989, 1990, Larry Wall

Perl may be copied only under the terms of the GNU General Public License,
a copy of which can be found with the Perl 3.0 distribution kit.

Test results:
=============
source:203-> make test
	 chmod +x t/TEST t/base.* t/comp.* t/cmd.* t/io.* t/op.*; \
	cd t && (rm -f perl; ln ../perl .) && ./perl TEST
base.cond.......ok
base.if.........ok
[...]
op.dbm..........FAILED on test 3
op.delete.......ok
op.do...........ok
op.each.........ok
op.eval.........ok
op.exec.........FAILED on test 4
[...]
op.undef........FAILED on test 20
op.unshift......ok
op.vec..........ok
op.write........ok
Failed 3 tests.
*** Error code 2 (ignored)
source:204-> 

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