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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!spool.mu.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!xlink.net!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!delos.stgt.sub.org!luva!migieger From: migieger@luva.stgt.sub.org (Michael Giegerich) Subject: Re: FreeBSD: perl-4.036 fails op/dbm.t test. Need help. References: <CIov9E.4o2@luva.stgt.sub.org> <2fohi9$42r@sparc10.entropic.com> Organization: private FreeBSD site Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1993 11:51:19 GMT Message-ID: <CIsoxx.7By@luva.stgt.sub.org> Lines: 38 In article <2fohi9$42r@sparc10.entropic.com> kenh@wrl.epi.com writes: >In article <CIov9E.4o2@luva.stgt.sub.org>, >Michael Giegerich <migieger@luva.stgt.sub.org> wrote: >> >>I recently compiled perl-4.036 (answered yes to all Configure >>questions after deciding for none when being asked for a pre- >>compiled configure file). >>BTW, I had to switch to bash (from tcsh) to avoid an error >>with the perl malloc.c. > >I don't really understand why changing your shell would help you to compile >a C module, but what do I know? :-) The compilation stopped at line 65 of malloc.c (if ALIGNBYTES > 4) complaining about the if structure. BTW, compilation of each module containing ALINGNBYTES warned about a redefinition of ALIGNBYTES; this was also true only when using tcsh. With bash neither the warnings nor the error were seen. > >>Anyway, when testing perl all tests passed - only the above >>mentioned op/dbm.t failed :-( > >If you run the test by hand, you'll see that the points where it fails is >where is checks for the existance of .dir and .pag files; the dbm routines >used in the *BSD systems create only one file ending .db. You can safely >ignore those test fail messages. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Thanks for this explanation (and the reassurance). Bye, Michael. -- ------------------------------+------------------------------ Michael Giegerich | migieger@luva.stgt.sub.org ------------------------------+------------------------------