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From: jv@mh.nl (Johan Vromans)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Perl 4.0 pl 9 on Ultrix 4.0
Message-ID: <1991Jun10.140504.4424@pronto.mh.nl>
Date: 10 Jun 91 14:05:04 GMT
Sender: jv@pronto.mh.nl (Johan Vromans)
Reply-To: Johan Vromans <jv@mh.nl>
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DecSystem5000 (Ultrix/RISC 4.0) with GCC 1.39 (OSF #3).

 1. Strange things happens when the 'new' Configure tries to digest
    the 'old' config.sh file. The 'old' config.sh (pl3) file contained
    a value for the variable 'tmp', that conflicts (see the processing
    of config.sh in Configure).
    The newly generated config.sh and friends seem ok, although the
    setting for tmp is propagated in the new config.sh.

 2. A subsequent run of Configure -d refuses to process config.sh
    since it has decided that it was not produced on the same system.

 3. In perl.h, '#undef HAS_MEMCMP' needs to be commented out at line
    105. Otherwise 'util.c' won't compile due to prototype mismatch.

 4. Tests io/dup and io/pipe fail. For some reason, io/dup needs $^F >= 5 
    and io/pipe needs $^F >= 4. 

 5. The Configure question "Are your system (especially dbm) libraries
    compiled with gcc" is misleading. Better is: "Does gcc has to
    use '-fpcc-struct-return' to avoid conflicts with system
    libraries, especially dbm (Confirm if in doubt)" or something like
    that.

	Johan
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