Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!central!convex!usenet From: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl Subject: Re: compiling perl 4.003 on a Convex, take 2 Message-ID: <1991May13.131029.2242@convex.com> Date: 13 May 91 13:10:29 GMT References: Sender: usenet@convex.com (news access account) Reply-To: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) Organization: CONVEX Software Development, Richardson, TX Lines: 17 Nntp-Posting-Host: pixel.convex.com From the keyboard of weg@convx1.ccit.arizona.edu (Eythan Weg): :In article tchrist@convex.com (Tom Christiansen) writes: : : Perl will compile cleanly without modifications on a Convex if you : simply use -pcc mode. : :I tried that. It compiled but failed the groups test. Any ideas? Yup: you declared getgroups() as returning gid_t instead of int. In pcc mode, they are ints, in ext mode, they are gid_t's. Crazy, eh? [I'll go back and check my version to make sure.] --tom -- Tom Christiansen tchrist@convex.com convex!tchrist "So much mail, so little time."