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From: vinoski@apollo.HP.COM (Stephen Vinoski)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: 4.0 beta on Apollo
Message-ID: <4fda59e3.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM>
Date: 16 Feb 91 18:43:00 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard Apollo Division - Chelmsford, MA
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Perl 4.0 beta came right up on Apollo m68k and Series 10000 machines, BSD4.3
environment, either sr10.2 or sr10.3 Domain/OS.  There was one problem in the
Configure script related to not searching both /lib/libc *and* /lib/clib (sigh);
the included patch fixes that.  (Note that the patch is not official, I included
it here in hopes that Larry would pick it up.)

The only test failure was:                       

op/stat........-T and -B not implemented on filehandles
FAILED on test 45

This is because Configure said: "Your stdio isn't very std."


Here's the Configure patch:

*** Configure.orig	Sat Feb 16 18:18:06 1991
--- Configure	Sat Feb 16 18:16:34 1991
***************
*** 1619,1627 ****
      libc="$1"
  elif test -f $libc; then
      echo "Your C library is in $libc, like you said before."
-     if test $libc = "/lib/libc"; then
- 	libc="$libc /lib/clib"
-     fi
  elif test -f /lib/libc.a; then
      echo "Your C library is in /lib/libc.a.  You're normal."
      libc=/lib/libc.a
--- 1619,1624 ----
***************
*** 1659,1664 ****
--- 1656,1664 ----
      fi
  fi
  echo " "
+ if test $libc = "/lib/libc"; then
+     libc="$libc /lib/clib"
+ fi
  set `echo $libc $libnames | tr ' ' '\012' | sort | uniq`
  $echo $n "Extracting names from $* for later perusal...$c"
  nm $nm_opts $* 2>/dev/null >libc.tmp


enjoy,
-steve


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