[comp.sys.sgi] Perl 4.0 on the Iris

meuer@quasifuchs.cs.umn.edu (meuer) (03/22/91)

I'm having trouble compiling perl 4.0 on the Iris and was wondering if
anyone else has run into this.

After changing a couple of the settings in the config.sh file created
by Configure, perl compiles without error.  But when I do a "make
test" the following happens:

		 cd t && chmod +x TEST */*.t
		 cd t && (rm -f perl; ln -s ../perl .) && ./perl TEST </dev/tty
	FAILED--no tests were run for some reason.
	*** Error code 9 (ignored)

I can not figure out what the problem is, and would sure appreciate
any help you could send my way.

Thanks.

-mark

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paul@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu (Paul Pomes - UofIllinois CSO) (03/22/91)

meuer@quasifuchs.cs.umn.edu (meuer) writes:

>I'm having trouble compiling perl 4.0 on the Iris and was wondering if
>anyone else has run into this.

This help me get 3.44 going a while back, it may help you now.

/pbp
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: has anyone gotten Perl3pl41 to work under Irix 3.3.1
Date: 4 Dec 90 20:53:23 GMT
Reply-To: chk%alias@csri.toronto.edu (C. Harald Koch)
Organization: Alias Research, Inc. Toronto ON Canadaa
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In <1990Dec1.161952.19468@csrd.uiuc.edu> pat@kai.com (Patrick Wolfe) writes:

>Has anyone been able to get Perl version 3 patchlevel 41 to work properly unde
r
>Irix 3.3.1?

After running Configure, edit the config.sh file and disable vfork, memcmp,
and volatile, and add -D_BSD_COMPAT to the cflags define. This works for me.

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operator@IRIS.KTH.DK (Martin Liversage) (03/25/91)

> I'm having trouble compiling perl 4.0 on the Iris and was wondering if
> anyone else has run into this.

I have a 4D/20 with 3.2 and I have succesfully compiled perl 4.0
patchlevel 44.

BUT DON'T USE GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION. I had to use the -O1 flag instead
of the default -O flag (the same as -O2) while compiling. Maybe the
perl source code needs some volatile statements here and there 8) .


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