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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!caen!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD: perl-4.036 fails op/dbm.t test. Need help. Date: 31 Dec 1993 20:16:14 GMT Organization: Montana State University - Bozeman MT Lines: 41 Message-ID: <2g21ae$jh4@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <CIov9E.4o2@luva.stgt.sub.org> <2fohi9$42r@sparc10.entropic.com> <CIsoxx.7By@luva.stgt.sub.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu In article <CIsoxx.7By@luva.stgt.sub.org>, Michael Giegerich <migieger@luva.stgt.sub.org> wrote: >>>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. I don't understand why using bash instead of tcsh fixed the problem, since the problem is because ALIGNBYTES is a macro defined by one of the BSD include files (can't remember which one), and using bash shouldn't make any difference on including the files. >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. Then bash has something screwed up, because the re-definition is still there. Grep through the includes files and you will see where it is defined. The thing to do is either undefine before re-defining it in the PERL sources, or to change the constant from ALIGNBYTES to something else. (I chose the latter and changed all occurances of ALIGNBYTES -> AALIGN_BYTES in the perl package on freefall) Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | Freely available *nix clones benefit everyone, nate@cs.montana.edu | so let's not compete with each other, let's work #: (406) 994-4836 | compete with folks who try to tie us down to home #: (406) 586-0579 | proprietary O.S.'s (Microsloth) - Me