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From: eichin@athena.mit.edu (Mark W. Eichin)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: make test should delete Op.dbmx.*
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Date: 3 Jan 91 14:09:00 GMT
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While having a few problems with gcc-1.38 and Perl 3.041 on the NeXT
(System 2.0), particularly w.r.t. test op.dbm, I noticed that one
failure of op.dbm would leave around 0 length Op.dbmx.{dir,pag} which
would cause a succeeding run of op.dbm to crash prematurely. Either
t/TEST or ./Makefile (or perhaps t/op.dbm?) should delete those files
prior to testing.
				_Mark_ <eichin@athena.mit.edu>
				MIT Student Information Processing Board
				Watchmaker Computing <eichin@watch.com>
ps. On the NeXT, with gcc-1.38, *don't* use -fpcc-struct-return. The
native libraries are compiled with gcc, after all...		_Mark_