terry@saxon.HAC.COM (Robert Terry) (12/13/89)
Dear Perl 3.0 patchlevel 4 experts: No problem getting the patch files patched up to level 4. It worked just fine on Sun3/260 OS 3.4. It doesn't work on Sun3/260 OS 4.0.3. I noted that when executing the Configure file on Sun3/260 OS 4.0.3. I get the following messages: ====================== begin ===================== 69 saxon% Configure Beginning of configuration questions for perl kit. First let's make sure your kit is complete. Checking... Looks good... Checking your sh to see if it knows about # comments... Your sh handles # comments correctly. Okay, let's see if #! works on this system... It does. Checking out how to guarantee sh startup... Let's see if '#! /bin/sh' works... stdout 1 <<<<<<<<<<<<< See this??? <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Yup, it does. Checking echo to see how to suppress newlines... ...using -n. Type carriage return to continue. Your cursor should be here--> ========================= end ========================= "stdout 1" does not even appear when executing Configure on Sun3/260 OS 3.4. With "stdout 1" as the default, then I get errors such as: ============================== begin ======================== Run make depend now? [n] y test -f perly.h || cp /dev/null perly.h ./makedepend echo array.c cmd.c cons.c consarg.c doarg.c doio.c dolist.c dump.c eval.c form.c hash.c malloc.c perly.c regcomp.c regexec.c stab.c str.c toke.c util.c | tr ' ' '\012' >.clist Finding dependencies for array.o. ./perl.h: 38: Illegal number stdout ./perl.h: 38: syntax error (in preprocessor if) ./perl.h: 123: syntax error (in preprocessor if) ./perl.h: 269: Illegal number stdout ./perl.h: 269: syntax error (in preprocessor if) Finding dependencies for cmd.o. ./perl.h: 38: Illegal number stdout ./perl.h: 38: syntax error (in preprocessor if) ./perl.h: 123: syntax error (in preprocessor if) ./perl.h: 269: Illegal number stdout ./perl.h: 269: syntax error (in preprocessor if) ... and the list goes on ... ====================== end =============================== Then I tried to replace default "stdout 1" with some values and I get: ===================== begin ====================== Run make depend now? [n] y test -f perly.h || cp /dev/null perly.h ./makedepend echo array.c cmd.c cons.c consarg.c doarg.c doio.c dolist.c dump.c eval.c form.c hash.c malloc.c perly.c regcomp.c regexec.c stab.c str.c toke.c util.c | tr ' ' '\012' >.clist Finding dependencies for array.o. ./perl.h: 269: Illegal octal number 87654321 Finding dependencies for cmd.o. ./perl.h: 269: Illegal octal number 87654321 Finding dependencies for cons.o. ./perl.h: 269: Illegal octal number 87654321 Finding dependencies for consarg.o. ./perl.h: 269: Illegal octal number 87654321 ... and it goes on .... ===================== end ========================== What have I done wrong here? I could use some hints, suggestions, etc! Please either reply here or email directly to me. Thanks in advance. email: terry@tcville.hac.com Sincerely, Robert Terry Hughes Aircraft Co. email:terry@tcville.hac.com Signal Processing Lab PO Box 902, E53/E250 El Segundo, CA 90245
lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall) (12/14/89)
In article <317@tcville.HAC.COM> terry@tcville.hac.com.UUCP (Robert Terry) writes:
: Checking out how to guarantee sh startup...
: Let's see if '#! /bin/sh' works...
: stdout 1 <<<<<<<<<<<<< See this??? <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
: Yup, it does.
: Checking echo to see how to suppress newlines...
: ...using -n.
: Type carriage return to continue. Your cursor should be here-->
Either your Configure is corrupt, or someone has modified one of cat, test,
chmod, echo or sh (ksh or bash replacement, maybe?). Or your #! mechanism
is broken. The word "stdout" doesn't even occur in Configure.
Larry Wall
lwall@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov