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- From: cgf@ednor.bbc.com (Chris Faylor)
- Subject: Re: SCO Open Desktop
- Message-ID: <1993Jan10.230806.2340@ednor.bbc.com>
- Organization: Boston Business Computing, Ltd.
- References: <1993Jan10.050626.5603@ednor.bbc.com>
- Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 23:08:06 GMT
- Lines: 34
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- In article <1993Jan10.050626.5603@ednor.bbc.com> cgf@ednor.bbc.com (Chris Faylor) writes:
- >Ok. This is the first time I've ever had one of those "I compiled
- >perl under <insert system here> and now it fails a test" problems.
- >Perl compiles and links but the following command from the tests
- >loops forever:
- >
- > perl -e 'goto foo;'
- >
- >or at least for a very long time. Any ideas where I should start
- >looking? I tried compiling with no optimization whatever and still
- >got the same result.
- >
- >I'd appreciate any help anybody can provide.
-
- This is me again. The problem mentioned above is fixed. Apparently
- Configure was somehow confused by its inclusion of the shared library
- (libc_s.a) and was not finding all of the symbols it should have. So,
- perl tried to use its own version of vsprintf when it didn't have to.
-
- The next problem is that the new perl fails the lib/big test number 61.
- The problem is that in the included library bigint.pl there is a statement:
-
- local($sx, $sy) = (shift @x, shift @y); # get signs
-
- The x and y arrays contain what they should contain prior to the shift
- and $sx contains what it should contain after this operation. $sy
- is '0' when it should be '+' and both arrays are zero length. Where
- do I start looking for this one???
-
- Once again, any help is appreciated. I know I can't be the first person
- to build perl under Open Desktop (aka SCO UNIX).
- --
- Chris Faylor Boston Business Computing, Ltd.
- cgf@ednor.bbc.com "I am not here."
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