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From: mcba@newt.phys.unsw.OZ.AU (Michael C. B. Ashley)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl,comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Perl test problems under Ultrix 4.0
Summary: perl patchlevel 37 passes all tests with following changes
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Date: 24 Oct 90 22:06:08 GMT
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In article <1990Oct23.190637.9412@cimage.com>, brian@cimage.com (Brian Kelley) writes:
> 
> I've been trying to build perl patchlevel 37 under Ultrix 4.0 without success.
> This is on a System 5400.  The make goes fine, but 'make test' fails on tests
> 7 and 40.  Has anyone else experienced these problems or built perl under
> 4.0 (I've had no problems on our Suns using the same code)?
> 
perl patchlevel 37 passes all tests with the following modifications to
the Makefile (as per the suggestions in README):

   (1) CFLAGS = -DLANGUAGE_C -O
   (2) Turn off optimization for the compilation of perly.c and tperly.c
      (this is easily done by editing the make rules for perly.o and
       tperly.o.

Also, when building the Makefile with Configure, I specified volatile
flags adding up to 1. I'm not sure if this is necessary, but I believe
that the MIPS compiler has (or had) some trouble with volatile.
Otherwise, use the default answers for everything from Configure.
 
Good luck!

Michael Ashley / Astrophysics Dept. / Uni of UNSW /
mcba@usage.csd.unsw.oz.au