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From: evans@decvax.DEC.COM (Marc Evans)
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Subject: Re: perl4.000 on DECstation3100 under Ultrix4.1
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Date: 17 Apr 91 12:08:17 GMT
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In article <1991Apr16.132824.29138@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>, fom2@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Francis Oisin McGuinness) writes:
|> 
|>   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).

The compiler supplied with Ultrix 4.1 is not ANSI. Unless the version claimed
by the compiler as the results of a 'cc -V foo.c' claims to be 2.40 or greater
then you don't have complete ANSI support.

|>   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.

I don't have any 4.1 systems hanging around, but if you would like Ultrix 4.2
or OSF/1 config information, I can supply that.

- Marc

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