Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!paperboy!meissner From: meissner@osf.org (Michael Meissner) Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl Subject: Re: 4.0 beta available Message-ID: Date: 23 Feb 91 00:08:43 GMT References: <11461@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> Sender: news@OSF.ORG Organization: Open Software Foundation Lines: 37 In-reply-to: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV's message of 15 Feb 91 23:24:29 GMT In article <11461@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall) writes: | A beta version of perl 4.0 is available from jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov | (128.149.1.143), in ~ftp/pub/perl.4.0/4.0.beta.tar.Z. | | I want a real short beta period, so get your comments to me early next | week, or don't bother. Please don't copy the beta all over the world... I brought it up under OSF/1, and noticed that it wasn't finding anything in the library. The problem is if nm's output isn't what Configure is expecting, it's supposed to go and use ar. However, there was a missing ';' so that it never failed and did the ar. *** Configure.~1~ Fri Feb 15 17:58:28 1991 --- Configure Fri Feb 22 16:55:09 1991 *************** *** 1680,1686 **** $contains '^printf$' libc.list >/dev/null 2>&1; then echo done elif $sed -n -e 's/^.*|FUNC |GLOB .*|//p' -e 's/^.*|FUNC |WEAK .*|//p' \ ! libc.list \ $contains '^printf$' libc.list >/dev/null 2>&1; then echo done else --- 168i,1686 ---- $contains '^printf$' libc.list >/dev/null 2>&1; then echo done elif $sed -n -e 's/^.*|FUNC |GLOB .*|//p' -e 's/^.*|FUNC |WEAK .*|//p' \ ! libc.list; \ $contains '^printf$' libc.list >/dev/null 2>&1; then echo done else -- Michael Meissner email: meissner@osf.org phone: 617-621-8861 Open Software Foundation, 11 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA, 02142 Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?