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From: ted@evi.com (Ted Stefanik)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Perl 4.0 on Ultrix DECStation
Message-ID: <1991Feb23.041953.29490@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU>
Date: 23 Feb 91 04:19:53 GMT
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Unlike the previous two posters, I did not get 4.0 Beta to work 100% right
away by just following the installation instructions.

Important Conditions:

          OS: ULTRIX 3.1 (UWS V2.1 Rev 14)
    Hardware: DECStation 2100
    Compiler: cc (MIPS ccom1.31)
Optimization: -O -Olimit 3000
      Parser: bison -v
      Malloc: perl's malloc
  Exceptions: Disabled WAITPID, didn't optimize perly.o
   Configure: All defaults except those listed above.
              The "test -x" failure causes slight messiness during Configure.

Test Failure:

   op/eval........FAILED on test 9
   op/s...........FAILED on test 40
   lib/big........../lib/bigint.pl did not return a true value at ./lib/big.t
                    line 2.
                  FAILED on test 0

Solution: Disabled optimization on perl.c.  Then got another Test Failure:

   lib/big........FAILED on test 172
   Failed 1 test.
   *** Error code 9 (ignored)
   Out of memory!

Solution: Disabled optimization on cmd.c.

Now 4.0 Beta passes all tests.

Notes:
   1) I found that it is fine to allow optimization when compiling perly.c.
   2) The lib/big stuff always failed on my Perl 3.0 versions too, but
      since I don't use the bigint package, I never bothered tracing it
      down to a C optimizer bug.