clark@randvax.UUCP (John Clark) (11/03/88)
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 ARPA: clark@rand-unix.arpa UUCP: !...!randvax!clark PHONE: 303-556-8396
cander@unisoft.UUCP (Charles Anderson) (11/05/88)
From article <1773@randvax.UUCP>, by clark@randvax.UUCP (John Clark): > 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. What patch level are you at? I remember some of the earlier patch levels had some big problems, but it seems O.K. to me now at level 15. I haven't used it much, but it does pass all but one of the tests in the test suite. I'm running with 5 Meg, nfs, and some non-standard modules, so I don't think memory is a problem. If any one is interested, I have the sources patched at level 15 and all orignal sources and patches, including some scripts I wrote to apply the patches and check them into SCCS. -- Charles. {sun, amdahl, ucbvax, pyramid, uunet}!unisoft!cander