Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!telxon!ping!gorpong
From: gorpong@ping.uucp (Gordon C. Galligher)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: PERL PL37 tests failed on SCO UNIX V.3.2 (SOLVED:  Summary)
Summary: -fpcc-struct-return and delete line 1371 of file util.c
Message-ID: <1990Oct27.025754.19700@ping.uucp>
Date: 27 Oct 90 02:57:54 GMT
References: <1990Oct23.045508.6172@ping.uucp>
Organization: The 23rd. Century
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In article <1990Oct23.045508.6172@ping.uucp> gorpong@ping.uucp (ME) writes:
# 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).

I wish to thank Mike Verstegen for pointing out the op.exec problem (the
wait4pid() code was wierd, it had a shadowed int result; in the else clause
of an "if (flags)".  Remove the shadowing int result; and things work.
		     (Line 1371 of file util.c)

I wish to also thank Ronald S H Khoo for pointing out that whenever using
GNU's C compiler with any dbm functions you need to make sure that you have
the -fpcc-struct-return on the compiler line (manually added to CFLAGS).
That solved my op.dbm failure.

It still fails on test 20 of op.undef, but a while back Larry told me to
muck with one of the IF expressions in one of the source files (I would
have to lose that mail :-( because he thinks the compiler is choking on
it.  I have compiled it without the -O option, and it still happens, so
I think I do need to mess with the code (yecch, that breaks it for future
patches).

Thank you all for your help.

		-- Gordon.
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