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From: clark@randvax.UUCP (John Clark)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: LARRY WALL'S "PERL" ON A/UX
Message-ID: <1773@randvax.UUCP>
Date: 3 Nov 88 03:57:33 GMT
Organization: Rand Corp., Santa Monica, Ca.
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I've been trying unsuccessfully to get Larry Wall's "perl" program
to run on A/UX (I need it to run his Configure generator).

Perl 2.0 compiles without incident.  However, when you run it on a
script--ANY script--it crashes with a Memory Fault error (-117) and
a core dump.  Changing various compile flags and/or kernel parameters
doesn't help, nor does using the "BIG" compiler option.  (In fact,
perl compiled under the -B /usr/lib/big/ option *REALLY* crashes
the machine;  it panics with an interrupt stack overflow!)
Btw, the machine is a 8-meg Mac II running nfs & yp;  vanilla, generally.

Any ideas would be appreciated.  Thx.

John Clark
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