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From: abe@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Vic Abell)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Perl 4.003 on RS/6000 AIX 3.1
Message-ID: <7256@mace.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: 17 Apr 91 21:24:32 GMT
References: <VICTOR.91Apr17125653@irt.watson.ibm.com>
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Organization: Purdue University
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In article <VICTOR.91Apr17125653@irt.watson.ibm.com>, victor@watson.ibm.com (Victor Miller) writes:
> I've found the secret to building Perl 4.003 on RS/6000 AIX 3.1: use
> bsdcc as the compiler instead of cc.  You can even specify -O (it
> passes all regression tests.).

Under AIX 3.1 (3003) on my system, using bsdcc to compile Perl 4.0,
patch level 3 causes the return value of signal() to be miscast as int.
This can be corrected by adding the following to config.h

	#define _MBI void

However, cc can also be used with only a single correction -- the test
for casting the return value of sprintf() in config.h needs to be modified.
The following diffs illustrate the change:

*** perl.h.b4	Wed Apr 17 11:01:32 1991
--- perl.h	Wed Apr 17 11:02:22 1991
***************
*** 377,383 ****
  #   define I286
  #endif
  
! #ifndef	__STDC__
  #ifdef CHARSPRINTF
      char *sprintf();
  #else
--- 377,383 ----
  #   define I286
  #endif
  
! #if	!defined(__STDC__) && !defined(_IBMR2)
  #ifdef CHARSPRINTF
      char *sprintf();
  #else

Vic Abell <abe@mace.cc.purdue.edu>