Date: Thu, 6 Apr 95 10:15:21 -0700 From: harold barker <hbarker@tusk.dsms.sanmateo.ca.us> To: Brian Tao <taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: PERL4&5 broken in -current and 950322-SNAP! Message-ID: <9504061715.AA06372@tusk.dsms.sanmateo.ca.us> References: <Pine.BSI.3.91.950406160512.14589C-100000@aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw>
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When gcc 2.6.3 came out i tried to compile it on a number of our machines (rs6k, HPUX9.5, SUN 4.1.3, NeXT 3.3/3.2) not one compile made it through with out core dumping on libg++, so i stayed at 2.6.2.
> Guess I should forward this from ports to current... apologies to
> those who will be seeing this twice.
> --
> Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao
> taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Thu, 6 Apr 1995 15:58:54 +0800 (CST)
> From: Brian Tao <taob@aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw>
> To: FREEBSD-PORTS-L <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>
> Subject: Perl 5.001
>
> Just finished building and testing perl 5.001 with all extensions
> on my 950322-SNAP machine. I get the following errors running the
> testsuite:
>
> cmd/for........FAILED on test 1
> op/time........FAILED on test 5
> lib/bigint.....FAILED on test 61
> lib/bigintpm...FAILED on test 7
> Failed 4/90 tests, 95.56% okay.
>
> None of these were present when compiled with gcc 2.6.2 on a
> 950210 machine. The 2.6.2-compiled perl5 also fails now.
>
> I noticed this when running the cmd/for test:
>
> % /usr/local/bin/perl for.t
> 1..7
> #1 :10: eq :10:
> #1 :0. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10: eq :0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10:
> not ok 1
> ok 2
> ok 3
> ok 4
> ok 5
> ok 6
> ok 7
>
> The first loop prints out a "0." instead of a "0". This anomaly
> also caused gcc to fail when compiling the extension modules (because
> perl was generating array subscripts with 0. instead of 0). Anyone
> have a gcc 2.6.2/pre-950322 machine to test this?
> --
> Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao
> taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org
>
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