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- From: giles@promed.com.au (Giles Lean)
- Subject: Re: Perl on SCO Open Desktop, SCO Unix 3.2v4
- Organization: Pro Medicus, Melbourne, Australia
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 01:10:42 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.011042.21430@promed.com.au>
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- cgf@ednor.bbc.com (Chris Faylor) writes:
-
- [Discussion of test 61 of big.t failing deleted.]
-
- A progress report of my own experiences -- I asked for help a little while
- back. To those who said 'me too' you are not forgotten, at least yet!
-
- I too have big.t failing test 61, and isolated this to a shift
- of @x, where @x = ("+", "0") which returns "0" rather than "+".
- The problem seemed related to a local(*x) earlier.
-
- Given a tip by a guru of the internals, I'd take a look. Given
- my presently limited time this probably isn't worth it, and I'll
- go with (2) below.
-
- 1. SCO and Configure
-
- There appear to be a number of things that are in /lib/libc.a that
- are not in /lib/libc_s.a. I told Configure to link with -lc_s but that
- the standard C library is /lib/libc.a.
-
- Does anyone have a set of one-line descriptions for all the supplied
- libraries? There look still to be things for mixed memory models,
- which I think are only required for producing MS DOS binaries.
-
- 2. Perl and GNU CC is OK
-
- Other people have reported compiling perl with gcc. I havn't done this
- yet. (The example config.sh files I've seen were missing quite a few
- features, and I'd like to work on that.)
-
- 3. Binary for FTP
-
- There is a copy of a perl binary for SCO Unix available on ftp.wimsey.com
- under /pub/wimseypd -- I think this was made available by Stuart Lynne.
- I have no information on what this was compiled on, or whether it includes
- TCP/IP or crypt().
-
- There is often more discussion of GNU software on SCO Unix and OpenDesktop
- in biz.sco.general, for those of you who see the biz.* groups.
- --
- Giles Lean at Pro Medicus <giles@promed.com.au>
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