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From: silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: What happened to the configuration hints (SGI)?
Message-ID: <1991Jun10.173225.9395@cs.dal.ca>
Date: 10 Jun 91 17:32:25 GMT
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Organization: Habitat Ecology Div., Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
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I'm in the process of upgrading from perl 4.003 to 4.010 and just ran
Configure.  When I installed 4.003 I was pleased to see that the use of
the "hints" file warned me that although I had vfork() on my system, I
might prefer not to use it (SGI's vfork is notoriously flaky).  This
time through it asked my why I had left vfork undefined even though I
had it.  Any idea what happened?

By the way, the #undef f_next is still needed after #include <sys/file.h>
in toke.c, but I suspect that it takes time for fixes to make their way
down the pipeline.

Anyway, perl 4.010 compiles fine with one minor glitch, at the end of
the make the final load fails because malloc.o is missing from x2p --
I just linked it there and all went OK, and it passed all tests (this is
on a PI 4D/25).
-- 
William Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division, Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
P. O. Box 1006, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, CANADA B2Y 4A2.  Tel. (902)426-1577
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