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From: jtc@tessera.UUCP (J.T. Conklin)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Re: v16i034: Larry Wall's Configure - (nf)
Message-ID: <194@tessera.UUCP>
Date: 31 Oct 88 06:07:14 GMT
References: <0@andrew.UUCP> <3100001@nixpbe.UUCP>
Reply-To: jtc@tessera.UUCP (J.T. Conklin)
Organization: Tesseract Software Laboratories, Burnaby B.C.
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In article <3100001@nixpbe.UUCP> kebsch@nixpbe writes:
>Jay Libove wrote:
>
>> Well, Larry (for the first time I've ever seen) made a number of very
>> very bad assumptions in his configure distribution.
>>
>> 1) that you have Perl. Perl doesn't run on 80286 machines. Not at all.
>			 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>That's wrong! I yacc'ed perl.y on a 32 bit machine and compiled
>Perl-2.0, Patchlevel-14 on a 80286 machine. It runs pretty good and
>I have no problems! My Operatingsystem is UNIX Sytem V Rel-2 (Microport).
>So don't flame on Larry Wall, flame on SCO Xenix SysV/286 v2.2.1.

Agreed, I run perl 2.0 on my SCO Xenix/286 machine without a hitch,
but I did have to cross compile it on a '386.  It compiles all right on
the '286 but it fails some of the regression tests.

With a little work on the compiler, a working perl executable could
be generated solely on a '286.  Perhaps bug fixes/updates are being
held up in favor of ansification?  In the mean time, I do have a working
binary that I'm willing to share -- send me mail if you want it.

	--jtc

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J.T. Conklin
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