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From: chk@alias.com (C. Harald Koch)
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Subject: Re: Porting PERL on Silicon Graphics 4D
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Date: 25 Mar 91 19:56:36 GMT
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In <45819@ut-emx.uucp> dboles@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (David Boles) writes:

>Has anybody gotten Perl up on an SGI machine?  I have tried compiling
>it with a couple of different switches but the resulting code always
>fails op.eval, op.s, and op.(something else).  The failure in op.eval
>comes after printing the sixth ok.  Any hints/help appreciated.

vfork, memcmp, and volatile are all broken under IRIX3.3. To get perl to
compile and work, you have to manually disable these three in the config.sh
file. Do this at the end when Configure asks you if you want to edit
config.sh.

Also, you have to specify -D_BSD_COMPAT as one of the arguments to the C
compiler (there's a question that asks for this near the beginning of
Configure).

With these changes, all versions of Perl have worked fine for me on SGI
systems, with the exception of an 'out of memory!' error when trying to
debug arrays...

Hope this helps!

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