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Xref: sserve comp.unix.bsd:6837 comp.lang.perl:12050 Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!goanna!escargot!minyos.xx.rmit.OZ.AU!s902113 From: s902113@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Luke Mewburn) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.lang.perl Subject: Re: Installing perl-4.035 in 386BSD Message-ID: <s902113.719658811@minyos.xx.rmit.OZ.AU> Date: 21 Oct 92 09:13:31 GMT References: <IKEDA.92Oct19202131@phenix.ntec.co.jp> <BwEwyp.DF1@ibmpcug.co.uk> Organization: RMIT Computer Centre Lines: 22 NNTP-Posting-Host: minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au adrian@rachel.ibmpcug.co.uk (Adrian Hall) writes: >In article <IKEDA.92Oct19202131@phenix.ntec.co.jp> ikeda@ntec.co.jp (shigeru IKEDA) writes: >>CAUTION: YOU MUST NOT MAIL ME. PLEASE FOLLOW UP. >> >>Has anyone succeeded in installing perl-4.035 on 386BSD >>with machine which has memory only 4M? >> >>I tried, but while compiling eval.c, my 386BSD hung. >To compile perl you need a lot of memory. Try adding loads of swap space. >I managed to get perl to compile, but not tperl - which required even >more memory (I did have 48Meg configured at the time). Well, I found that if I turned of optimisation for tperl.c ONLY, it works. (And, of course, who cares if one minor part isn't optimised if tperl actually works?? :) >Adrian