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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Need help: Motorola 3640 Unix R3V6 Install of Perl
Message-ID: <1991Jun6.165044.15642@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov>
Date: 6 Jun 91 16:50:44 GMT
References: <1991Jun6.153753.1620@netcom.COM>
Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
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In article <1991Jun6.153753.1620@netcom.COM> sanders@netcom.COM (Robert Sanders) writes:
: New to PERL, I'm trying to get it going on a Motorola 3640 system running
: R3V6.1.  It builds OK, but hangs on the test (make test) for comp/cmdopt.

I'd make a copy of comp/cmdopt.t and start trying to whittle it down to
a minimal example.

Actually, before I did that, I'd try fiddling with the optimizer flags.  It
doesn't look like any of the usual difficulties--there aren't any loops in
that file, so it won't be longjmp() clobbering registers.  Nor is it asking
for input anywhere, so it's probably loooping (nice typo there).  Check to
see if it's actually chewing CPU time.  If you can, force a core dump and
get a stack trace.  Run your minimal example with -D14.

Larry