Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!umich!sharkey!wa8tzg!wwm From: wwm@wa8tzg.mi.org (Bill Meahan) Subject: Re: Perl on an Intergraph? Message-ID: <1991May4.134923.390@wa8tzg.mi.org> Organization: What, ME Organized? References: <1991May1.171000.234@wa8tzg.mi.org> <1991May2.173540.4290@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov> Date: Sat, 4 May 1991 13:49:23 GMT In article <1991May2.173540.4290@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov> lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall) writes: >In article <1991May1.171000.234@wa8tzg.mi.org> wwm@wa8tzg.mi.org (Bill Meahan) writes: >: >: I'm trying to put perl on an Intergraph under CTIX (basically SYSVR2). >: Perl compiles without problem or complaint under the Green Hills >: compiler supplied by Intergraph, but when I try to test it, BOOM! >: >: Run as 'make test' : >: >: cd t && chmod +x TEST */*.t >: cd t && (rm -f perl; ln -s ../perl .) && ./perl TEST : base/cond......./base/cond.t: print: not found >: ./base/cond.t: =: not found >: ./base/cond.t: eq: not found >: ./base/cond.t: ne: not found >: ./base/cond.t: eq: not found >: ./base/cond.t: print: not found >: ./base/cond.t: ne: not found >: ./base/cond.t: print: not found >: ./base/cond.t: ==: not found >: ./base/cond.t: !=: not found >: ./base/cond.t: ==: not found >: ./base/cond.t: print: not found >: ./base/cond.t: !=: not found >: ./base/cond.t: print: not found >: FAILED on test 0 >: Failed a basic test--cannot continue. >: *** Error code 8 (ignored) > >It would appear that you have $sharpbang set to '#!' in config.sh, when >in fact your kernel doesn't recognize it. The hint is the "not found" >messages--Perl doesn't ever give such a message, but the shells do >frequently. Hence, a shell is attempting to execute a Perl script. > >Either you used a foreign config.sh file on this machine, or Configure >got loused up over #!, possibly because you ran it under some shell other >than /bin/sh that emulates #!. Or a Nazi spy snuck in while you weren't >watching and edited your config.sh... > >Larry Well, maybe the Nazis edited my Configure script :-) I **manually** edited config.sh to NOT recognize '#!' and perl compiled and tested OK. BUT Configure INSISTS that "#!" works, even when run explicitly under 'sh' by doing a: $/bin/sh Configure EVEN THOUGH '#!' DOESN'T WORK! It also didn't detect that I ran it with ksh the very first time through. I double checked: /bin/sh is NOT linked/aliased to ksh or csh. I grant, Intergraphs run the Mutant UNIX From Hell (obstensibly 'pure' SYS V - but it ISN'T) so perhaps I've just stumbled across something Configure hasn't dealt with before. BTW - on some SYS V machines (the I-graph AND my home 3B1) the 'new' "force a script to run perl even though it doesn't support #!" statement doesn't seem to work properly. On a program which does interactive I/O, the input constantly thinks it has an input and so I can watch the prompt from the perl script scroll up my screen at a fascinatingly high rate. Using the 'old' version (from 3.044 'nih') cures the problem. THANKS FOR ALL THE HELP! -- Bill Meahan (WA8TZG) | Programming is simple: wwm@wa8tzg.mi.org OR | uunet!mailrus!sharkey!wa8tzg!wwm | All you have to do is put the right "Home for Cybernetic Orphans" | numbers in the right memory locations!