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From: csgr@cs.ru.ac.za (Geoff Rehmet)
Subject: Re: Perl[45] for FreeBSD 1.1 [GR]...?
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Date: Mon, 30 May 1994 07:57:11 GMT
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In <2s8dum$hjt@ucthpx.uct.ac.za> gavan@oryx.mth.uct.ac.za (Gavan Tredoux) writes:

>Jordan Hubbard (jkh@morse.ilo.dec.com) wrote:
>: freebsd.cdrom.com:~ftp/pub/FreeBSD/packages/perl_bin.tgz	(binary pkg)

>Last time I looked, the perl that this builds fails one
>of the tests in the testsuite that comes with perl, something
>that tests dbm . has anyone fixed this?

That's the test that's broken, not perl.  The dbm test should fail.

Geoff.
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