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From: rusty@BELCH.BERKELEY.EDU (Rusty Wright)
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Subject: perl on DECstation, Ultrix 4.1
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Date: 11 Dec 90 01:51:18 GMT
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Ok, I got it to work.  It was the combination of several things from 2
people:

1) Answer "-DLANGUAGE_C -DJMPCLOBBER" to the other cflags question
when you run Configure.

2) Answer "1" to the void flags question.

3) When it asks you if you want to edit config.sh say yes and change
d_waitpids='define' to d_waitpids='undef'.

4) While in step 3, when it asks you if you want to edit config.sh and
you said yes, also change d_volatile='define' to d_volatile='undef'.

*) Extra bonus: if your machine only has 16 meg (as mine does) and you
want to watch the compiler go virtual and spend 99.9% of its time
paging and 0.1% of its time compiling, when you run Configure, at the
question for optimization/debug flags answer "-O -Olimit 30000".  When
you do this it takes many hours to compile eval.c (about 8 hours on my
DECstation 5000 with 16 meg of ram and 2 swap disks).  Check with your
local DEC Field Service office to see if your making it do this
excessive paging voids the warranty on your disks.