has anyone gotten Perl3pl41 to work under Irix 3.3.1

Chris Wagner jwag at moose.asd.sgi.com
Wed Dec 5 05:09:35 AEST 1990


In article <1990Dec1.161952.19468 at csrd.uiuc.edu>, pat at kai.com (Patrick
Wolfe) writes:
> Has anyone been able to get Perl version 3 patchlevel 41 to work
properly under
> Irix 3.3.1?  It compile fine, and I did disable the use of "vfork()", but it
> still fails it's self tests (base.term to be exact).  Something seems to be
> wrong with bcmp() and memcmp() (I've tried both, and I've tried
compiling with
> and without optimization enabled), because perl thinks:
> 
> 	"a" lt "b" is true
> 	"b" lt "a" is true
> 	"a" gt "b" is false
> 	"b" gt "a" is false
> 
> Help?
> 
> Patrick Wolfe   (pat at kai.com, uunet!kailand!pat)


Did you also turn off the Optimizer?? it needs to be off for 1 file
(I forget which one) but turning it off for all should fix the problem
(though I am running patch29)

Chris WAgner



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