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From: iglesias@draco.acs.uci.edu (Mike Iglesias)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix,comp.lang.perl
Subject: Problems building perl pl 37 under Ultrix 3.1
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Date: 25 Oct 90 02:54:05 GMT
Reply-To: iglesias@draco.acs.uci.edu (Mike Iglesias)
Organization: University of California, Irvine
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I'm having problems building perl v3.??? patchlevel 37 on a DECstation 3100
running Ultrix 3.1.  Patchlevevl 28 run the tests fine, but patchlevel
37 fails the op.exec test 4.  I've built both patchlevels the same
way (no -O, fixed volatile, etc).

I noticed that patch 29 added calls to waitpid() in util.c, so I tried
undefining WAITPID in config.h and rebuilt patchlevel 37 again.  Now
it passes all the tests.  Is something broken in Ultrix 3.1 waitpid(),
or is perl not calling it properly?  I don't know too much about
waitpid() and how it's used, so I can't tell if there's a problem.


Thanks,

Mike Iglesias
University of California, Irvine
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