wehr@fmeed1.UUCP (Bruce Wehr) (11/18/89)
I had one last problem trying to get HP-UX 6.5 and Perl 3.0 Patch 4 to
play nice together. Actually, Perl itself compiled fine - it was [as]2p
that broke.
It seems that HP-UX 6.5 doesn't support the bcopy() and bzero() calls
(at least - not in libc, nor is it documented anywhere). Someone,
however, decided to slip bcopy() into the [n]dbm libraries. They chose
(for some reason) *not* to include bzero().
Well, need I go further? Yes? OK.
Larry Wall's Configure script detects bcopy() in one of the libraries
(he doesn't know which one - nor does he care) and says - HA! This
machine has bcopy()! It must have bzero(), too!
Sorry, Larry. There are still twit operating systems out there. HP-UX
is getting better. Patience. And until then, check for both (or
something).
Oh, BTW - my fix was to change d_bcopy from define to undef in
config.sh, re-run all the *.SH files (including x2p/*.SH), and re-do all
the make steps. Hope someone finds this info helpful.
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Bruce Wehr (wehr%dptc.decnet@srlvx0.srl.ford.com)
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