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From: wwm@wa8tzg.mi.org (Bill Meahan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: Re: Perl 3.0.44 Blues
Message-ID: <1991Mar5.014315.1245@wa8tzg.mi.org>
Date: 5 Mar 91 01:43:15 GMT
References: <73@morwyn.UUCP>
Organization: What, ME Organized?
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In article <73@morwyn.UUCP> forrie@morwyn.UUCP (Forrie Aldrich) writes:
>Thanks to EVERYONE who responded to my initial inquiry of 
>compiling problems with Perl pl44...
>
>WELL!  Here's another one for you...
>
>"aline 175: branch offset is too remote"
>
>Got that from trying to complile with gcc without the -O option...
>
>I'm stuck.  And personally don't understand why Lwall didn't see
>this and why he made the code so big to begin with... (?)
>
>Any help?  Well my config (for the record) is this:  2meg RAM
>and 67meg HD.  Not too bad, and I certainly have never encountered
>these problems before...
>
>Hope this can get resolved.  Hmmm, maybe I might end up asking someone
>to uuencode and send me their Perl 3.0.44 executable... ((ha ha))
>
>Thanks all!
>
>Forrie
>
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Simple solution:  DON'T USE GCC!

Perl 3.044 compiles and runs just fine using the native cc (disguised as
shcc to ensure using the shared libraries).  Still, don't use -O on
eval.c!
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