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From: peirce@gumby.cc.wmich.edu (Leonard Peirce)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: perl 3.0PL12 on ULTRIX 3.1 -- anyone got it compiled?
Message-ID: <1990Mar5.195945.28899@gumby.cc.wmich.edu>
Date: 5 Mar 90 19:59:45 GMT
References: <1990Mar5.162315.25784@gumby.cc.wmich.edu> <1990Mar5.182642.23419@iwarp.intel.com>
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In article <1990Mar5.182642.23419@iwarp.intel.com> merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz) writes:
>I just posted a fix for Ultrix2.0 that might also work on 3.1 (don't
>have any 3.1 machines around here to try in on).
> [...]
>	/ndbm/s/define/undef/              <<<--- this may not be necessary
>	/volatile/s/define/undef/          <<<--- this is probably the problem

The problem is indeed VOLATILE.  #undef it in config.h and it builds just fine
on ULTRIX 3.1.  Thanks to Craig Counterman (ccount@athena.mit.edu) for filling
me in, too.

I already sent a message to Larry Wall about the fix.