[comp.lang.perl] Tests fail on AIX for perl 4.0 patchlevel 10

pack@acd.acd.ucar.edu (Daniel Packman) (06/11/91)

On an IBM RS6000 at AIX 3.1.5, perl 4.0 patchlevel 10 fails on comp/cpp
and op/groups tests.  The latter test, if run alone, seems to run fine.
All tests ran fine under perl 4.0 patchlevel 3.  Perl was compiled with
the -D_NO_PROTO (as suggested) and no optimization.

The output from the comp/cpp test seems to indicate a dislike of # \ '
characters amongst other things:

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       22 | X#include "Comp.cpp.inc"
            .a......................
a - 1506-191: (E) Illegal character.
       23 | X#ifdef OK
            .a........
a - 1506-191: (E) Illegal character.
       25 | X#endif
            .a.....
a - 1506-191: (E) Illegal character.
       32 | print TRY '#define OK "ok 3\n"' . "\n";
            ..........a............................
a - 1506-076: (W) Character constant is larger than four characters.  Rightmost  four characters are used.
       35 | $pwd=`pwd`;
            .....a...b.
a - 1506-191: (E) Illegal character.
b - 1506-191: (E) Illegal character.
       36 | $pwd =~ s/\n//;
            ..........a....
a - 1506-191: (E) Illegal character.
       37 | $x = `./perl -P Comp.cpp.tmp`;
            .....a......................b.
a - 1506-191: (E) Illegal character.
b - 1506-191: (E) Illegal character.
1..3
ok 1
ok 2
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