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From: kgallagh@digi.lonestar.org (Kevin Gallagher)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: 4.0 beta on Apollo
Message-ID: <1991Feb18.195830.4820@digi.lonestar.org>
Date: 18 Feb 91 19:58:30 GMT
References: <4fda59e3.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM>
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In article <4fda59e3.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM> vinoski@apollo.HP.COM (Stephen Vinoski) writes:
>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.)

This was a typical problem several patches ago, but Larry fixed it back then when
it was brought to his attention.  At patchlevel 44, Configure finds both Apollo
libraries.  So, somehow the fix got lost between 3.0.44 and 4.0.

>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."

This, too, was a problem at one time, but it was fixed a long time ago, at
patchlevel 18, I think, or soon thereafter.  Anyway, Configure in patchlevel 44 
reports stdio as standard.  The op.stat test 45 works fine.

I suspect that Larry re-built Configure via Megaconfig for Perl 4.0, but
that Megaconfig had not been updated with the Apollo specific info that
fixes these Apollo specific problems.

Did I guess right, Larry?





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