Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!know!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!jpl-devvax!lwall From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall) Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl Subject: Re: PERL 3.0@37 Message-ID: <10189@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> Date: 31 Oct 90 17:36:55 GMT References: Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall) Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA Lines: 16 In article mitch@hq.af.mil (Mitch Wright) writes: : I've been trying to get PERL to compile on a CCI Power 6. It all compiles : without an error, but when doing the test, I get 2 errors. Anyone have an : idea where I should look to fix these up??? : : comp.package....syntax error in file ./comp.package at line 22, next 2 tokens "sort(keys _main" : syntax error in file ./comp.package at line 23, next 2 tokens "sort(keys _XYZ" : syntax error in file ./comp.package at line 24, next 2 tokens "sort(keys _ABC" : io.print........syntax error in file ./io.print at line 17, next 2 tokens "printf("ok %d\n"" As the README file points out, but which isn't exactly obvious from the error messages: If you get syntax errors on '(', try -DCRIPPLED_CC or -DBADSWITCH or both. Larry