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From: sherman@unx.sas.com (Chris Sherman)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: compiling perl patch 10 on HPUX
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Date: 19 Jun 91 03:07:11 GMT
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For those who have HPUX on their HP 9000/3xx or 9000/7xx, here is what I did
to get perl to pass its tests:

HP 9000/700:

  o  Use perl's malloc.  Otherwise, op/pat will fail test 44-47.

  (Personal note:  The 700's compile all of perl in about 8 minutes.)

HP 9000/300:

  o  Use perl's malloc.  Otherwise you get dbm 'Out of Memory' errors.
  o  Don't test perl over nfs mounts, otherwise op/read will fail test 3. 


I also had one other problem:
When I used perl's malloc, x2p would not compile because it couldn't find
the malloc.o file.  I did a simple ln -s ../malloc.o malloc in the x2p 
directory, and that took care of it.
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