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From: fom2@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Francis Oisin McGuinness)
Subject: perl4.000 on DECstation3100 under Ultrix4.1
Message-ID: <1991Apr16.132824.29138@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
Sender: fom2@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Francis Oisin McGuinness)
Reply-To: fom2@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1991 13:28:24 GMT


  I'm trying to bring up perl (since yesterday with the 3 parts
  of the just released patches) on a DECstation 3100 running
  Ultrix4.1. The new Ultrix compiler is supposed to be ANSI, so
  I'm using that (anyway gcc1.37 hates the new ultrix include files
  with several passions). After tweaking the Configure a few times
  I can get the constructed perl to pass all the tests except
   io/fs test 18. This is a test that calls utime to modify the atime
  and mtime of a test file, and seems to fail by not modifying said
  times. I'm reluctant to use perl seriously until I'm sure it works
  properly. Any ideas?
  Larry Wall--who was very prompt in replying to my query---suggested
  undef'ing CASTNEGFLOAT, but this didn't help.

  If anyone who has built perl on this system could send me their
  config.h and Makefile, I'ld be grateful.

  Oisin McGuinness
  Systems Manager, Math Dept. Columbia University
  om@math.columbia.edu