Subject: Re: PERL and NetBSD 1.3_ALPHA
To: Giles Lean <giles@nemeton.com.au>
From: Dave Burgess <burgess@cynjut.neonramp.com>
List: current-users
Date: 11/11/1997 01:59:04
> 
> 
> On Tue, 11 Nov 1997 03:07:43 +1100  Giles Lean wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 10 Nov 1997 16:27:50 +0100 (MET)  Erik Bertelsen wrote:
> 
> > > Have anyone tried to build perl on NetBSD-1.3_ALPHA ?
> 
> Working:
> 
> 	5.004_04 on NetBSD-1.1/i386 (486DX2/66 and non-MMX Pentium/100)
> 	5.004 ditto (testing against the 5.004_04 lib/complex.t test)
> 
> Not working (all with non-MMX Pentium/100)
> 
> 	5.004_04 on NetBSD-1.3_ALPHA/i386
> 	5.004_04 ditto, but compiled with gcc-2.7.2.1 (gcc built on 1.1)
> 	5.004 compiled on 1.1, running on NetBSD-1.3_ALPHA/i386
> 

I'm running 5.004_04 on a NetBSD1.3_ALPHA/i386 with a 1,2G userland.  It
works fine.

Libraries sound like the culprit to me.

> Since the older binary works or fails depending on the OS release,
> I'm betting for the moment on a shared library bug.
> 
> Any math library gurus out there?
> 
> Giles
> 


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