Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!kth.se!sunic!mcsun!hp4nl!mhres!squirrel!pronto!jv From: jv@mh.nl (Johan Vromans) Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl Subject: Re: Perl.4.0 on DECStation 3100/ULTRIX 4.1 Message-ID: <1991Mar29.123600.585@pronto.mh.nl> Date: 29 Mar 91 12:36:00 GMT References: Sender: jv@pronto.mh.nl (Johan Vromans) Reply-To: Johan Vromans Organization: Multihouse Automation, the Netherlands Lines: 26 In-Reply-To: skunz@iastate.edu's message of 28 Mar 91 21:36:09 GMT In article skunz@iastate.edu (Kunz Steven L) writes: | 1) Even following the recommendations for MIPS compilers in README, you get | 8 of the checkout tests failing. All but one of these (and it is | addressed in the next section) are fixed by patching the consarg.c module. Using the perl supplied malloc also helps. | 2) When running Configure, I took most of the defaults. Exceptions were | as follows: | | - Don't let the group-id default to "gid_t" - specify "int" instead. | This is based on info presented in this newsgroup by Johan Vromans | (jv@mh.nl). The ULTRIX 4.1 docs document it right - Perl just picks | the wrong default for this version. It is wrong in the include files (at least in Ultrix 4.0). That's where Configure gets it from. Johan -- Johan Vromans jv@mh.nl via internet backbones Multihouse Automatisering bv uucp: ..!{uunet,hp4nl}!mh.nl!jv Doesburgweg 7, 2803 PL Gouda, The Netherlands phone/fax: +31 1820 62911/62500 ------------------------ "Arms are made for hugging" -------------------------