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From: gorpong@ping.uucp (Gordon C. Galligher)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: perl 3@40 fails test lib.big
Summary: when using make test, but when executing alone, it works
Message-ID: <1990Nov14.140021.5953@ping.uucp>
Date: 14 Nov 90 14:00:21 GMT
References: <1990Nov10.230258.21946@ircam.ircam.fr>
Organization: The 23rd. Century
Lines: 28

In article <1990Nov10.230258.21946@ircam.ircam.fr> mf@ircam.fr (Michel Fingerhut) writes:
>Setup: DECsystem 5810
>       Ultrix 4.0
>
>       Using cc to compile perl
>       no optimization
>       undef'ed volatile
>
>When testing,
>       lib.big.........FAILED on test 51
>
>Help, anyone?

I have an 80386 and used the GCC 1.37 compiler (with -g -O -fpcc-struct-return)
and lib.big fails on test 6, when run from "make test."  If I cd t and then
execute ./perl lib.big, every test comes out OK.  I am confused, but it does
work.  I also believe that the first line of lib.big should be ./perl -x
not just perl, in order to take advantage of the __END__ stuff in the file.
I executed ./perl lib.big and ./perl -x lib.big and it works regardless of
the -x switch.  Is it a side effect that if an __END__ exists then the rest
is automatically used as <DATA> and the -x is not needed, or is the -x merely
there to tell perl to skip to a #!perl and start executing to an __END__?

		-- Gordon.

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