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Xref: sserve comp.lang.perl:17335 comp.os.386bsd.apps:364 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!network.ucsd.edu!ogicse!psgrain!ee.und.ac.za!hippo.ru.ac.za!ccml From: ccml@hippo.ru.ac.za (Mike Lawrie) Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl,comp.os.386bsd.apps Subject: Re: Perl 4.036 on NetBSD 0.8 (386, no 387) Message-ID: <CC0tH4.2Bo@hippo.ru.ac.za> Date: 19 Aug 93 19:15:02 GMT Article-I.D.: hippo.CC0tH4.2Bo References: <1993Aug18.204209.11560@ohare.Chicago.COM> Organization: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa Lines: 25 In <1993Aug18.204209.11560@ohare.Chicago.COM> kls@ohare.Chicago.COM (Karl Swartz) writes: >... bringing up Perl, 4.036.......[Netbsd 0.8] >Alas, several of the tests failed. The first was trivil: op/dbm tests >2 and 9 failed because no .pag file was created (nor is there a .dir >file, though the test didn't care that the unlink failed). Instead >there is a .db file. Fine. >The other was lib/big.t, which rather spectacularly failed 42 out of >its 246 tests. I looked at it a bit but the problem isn't immediately >obvious. Does anyone have an idea what the problem is, and how I >might go about fixing it? I've attached the output from this test in >case it's of any help. FWIW, these errors occur with 386bsd when I tried to install perl-4.036. There was no comment from the net, which is most unusual. Surely someone somewhere has managed to get this to work, and would be willing to share knowledge? Mike -- Mike Lawrie <ccml@hippo.ru.ac.za> Director, Computing Services ph +27 461 318279/80 Rhodes University, Drostdy Rd fx +27 461 25049 Grahamstown 6140, South Africa