Steve Quint wrote:

> I'm running a installation of the June snapshot with July's base and comp
> files, and I'm having a problem trying to build Perl 5.004.
> 
> During the configuration, one of the tests core dumps when it's trying the
> extract C preprocessor symbols, and 'make' fails on the first line.  I at
> first thought this was a problem with Perl 5.004, but trying to build Perl
> 5.003 produces the same results.  I've built Perl with earlier snapshots
> without a single hitch.

What exactly core dumps???  Is it perl, make, the bourne shell?  If it's
the latter, maybe there's a problem (I keep getting random sh core's from
my ppp scripts )-:

> Any suggestions, hints?  I remember seeing a Perl thread here a while back.
> Did something break?  Have I gone off the deep end?

Unless it's sh causing trouble, I don't really know...

Later.

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Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
Component Design Engineer - MD6                 Intel Corporation
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