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From: gottlieb@allan.nyu.edu (Allan Gottlieb)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Putting Perl 3.x on ULTRIX
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Date: 29 Apr 91 14:13:28 GMT
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In-Reply-To: frank@croton.nyo.dec.com's message of 29 Apr 91 12:55:15 GMT
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   |>Morn folks!
   |>We just got in some DECStation 5000, model 200 running ULTRIX
   |>4.1. and I would like to put in the lastest stable release of
   |>Perl.  I have unpacked the 33 kits for @kit44.  Can anyone out
   |>there tell me what flags I need to get it to compile?  Thanks!

   Just run Configure.  When it pauses and prints "If you need to edit
   config.sh, do it as a shell escape here:", take Configure up on the
   offer.  Type "! vi config.sh".  Now search for d_volatile.  Change
   the 'define' to 'undef', write, and quit.  Compile away.  Configure
   takes care of all the other flags and magic incantations.

I agree with the volatile comments (I changed the hints file instead
of editing config.sh--see below).  In addition, I had to tell
Configure that getgroups() returns int not gid_t.  Other posters have
noted that, older versions of the MIPS compiler could not correctly
optimize some of the files but my system did not have this problem.  I
am assuming we are referring to Perl 4.003 not Perl 3.x.

hints/ultrix_4.sh
ccflags="$ccflags -DLANGUAGE_C -Olimit 2900"
d_volatile=$undef

Allan Gottlieb