Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2004 15:38:45 -0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problems compiling perl 5.8.5 w/ fbsd 5.2.1 Message-ID: <200412071538.45627.peter@wemm.org> In-Reply-To: <20041207233101.GA29595@ack.Berkeley.EDU> References: <20041207222347.GA23656@ack.Berkeley.EDU> <60451.207.219.213.163.1102458724.squirrel@207.219.213.163> <20041207233101.GA29595@ack.Berkeley.EDU>
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On Tuesday 07 December 2004 03:31 pm, Mike Hunter wrote: > On Dec 07, "Mike Jakubik" wrote: > > Mike Hunter said: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I'm new to amd64 as of this nice new dual opteron box I've just > > > received...I may be seeing a lot of you guys in the coming weeks > > > :) > > > > Any reason why you installed 5.2.1 (Its an old pre-release > > version)? If this is a fresh box, then i highly recommend you > > install 5.3 instead. Perl 5.8.5 is packaged with 5.3 too. > > Actually I did 5.2.1 because that was the install media I had handy > :) I'm building a RELENG_5 world/kernel as we speak...I'll be back if > it doesn't work out :) There was some distinct brokenness with brk() and family in 5.2 for amd64, FYI. The known problems were fixed a while ago. -- Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5
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