LARRY WALL'S "PERL" ON A/UX
Charles Anderson
cander at unisoft.UUCP
Sat Nov 5 05:51:02 AEST 1988
>From article <1773 at randvax.UUCP>, by clark at randvax.UUCP (John Clark):
> I've been trying unsuccessfully to get Larry Wall's "perl" program
> to run on A/UX (I need it to run his Configure generator).
>
> Perl 2.0 compiles without incident. However, when you run it on a
> script--ANY script--it crashes with a Memory Fault error (-117) and
> a core dump. Changing various compile flags and/or kernel parameters
> doesn't help, nor does using the "BIG" compiler option. (In fact,
> perl compiled under the -B /usr/lib/big/ option *REALLY* crashes
> the machine; it panics with an interrupt stack overflow!)
> Btw, the machine is a 8-meg Mac II running nfs & yp; vanilla, generally.
What patch level are you at? I remember some of the earlier patch
levels had some big problems, but it seems O.K. to me now at level 15.
I haven't used it much, but it does pass all but one of the tests in
the test suite. I'm running with 5 Meg, nfs, and some non-standard
modules, so I don't think memory is a problem. If any one is
interested, I have the sources patched at level 15 and all orignal
sources and patches, including some scripts I wrote to apply the
patches and check them into SCCS.
--
Charles.
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