Xref: utzoo comp.lang.perl:2695 comp.unix.ultrix:5057 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!ira.uka.de!fuchs From: fuchs@it.uka.de (Harald Fuchs) Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl,comp.unix.ultrix Subject: Re: Perl test problems under Ultrix 4.0 Message-ID: Date: 24 Oct 90 22:47:30 GMT References: <1990Oct23.190637.9412@cimage.com> <15359@cbmvax.commodore.com> Sender: news@ira.uka.de (USENET News System) Organization: University of Karlsruhe, FRG Lines: 16 grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins) writes: >Ultrix hasn't traditionally been 100% perl clean, so having perl tests fail >doesn't neccessarily reflect installation problems, but rather Ultrix bugs >or perhaps legitimate (if wrong headed) differences in unix implementation. >Try compiling with optimization, and see if this helps. Nah. There are two problems with the Ultrix C compilers: 1. They aren't quite ANSI. Especially, they have problems with 'void'. Perl Configure guesses wrong about that. Answer '1' to the 'void' question. 2. The optimizers are buggy. Answer 'none' when Configure asks for the C compilation flags. That should do it. -- Harald Fuchs ... *gulp*