[comp.lang.perl] Perl 4.0 on Irix 3.3.2

ktl@sgi1.wag.caltech.edu (Kian-Tat Lim) (03/22/91)

	I'm trying to get 4.0 up on our SGI boxen running Irix 3.3.2.
make test is still rather unhappy.  One problem I've definitely
identified is that toke.c and sys/file.h conflict over what f_next
should be; SGI's include file has

#define f_next		f_up.f_unext

which gives cc fits.  I'm not sure which is better style -- a name
change by Larry or a strategically placed #undef.
-- 
Kian-Tat Lim (ktl@wag.caltech.edu, KTL @ CITCHEM.BITNET, GEnie: K.LIM1)

ktl@sgi1.wag.caltech.edu (Kian-Tat Lim) (03/22/91)

	Perl 4.0.0 passes 'make test' on SGI machines running Irix
3.3.2 with the following settings:

d_vfork:	undef
d_volatile:	define
d_voidsig:	define
void flags:	7
libraries:	-lmalloc, no -lbsd
includes:	none
C flags:	-O -Olimit 3000 for all but cmd.c, perl.c
		-O1 -Olimit 3000 for cmd.c, perl.c

I'm still trying to track down what the optimizer trashes in cmd.c and
perl.c.  So far, it looks like it's related to return values in st[].
-- 
Kian-Tat Lim (ktl@wag.caltech.edu, KTL @ CITCHEM.BITNET, GEnie: K.LIM1)