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On Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 09:12:05PM -0500, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 02:55:06PM +0200, Maurizio Loreti wrote:
> >
> > This is a bug report for perl from loreti@pd.infn.it,
> > generated with the help of perlbug 1.28 running under perl v5.6.0.
> >
> >
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------
> > [Please enter your report here]
> >
> > I am managing a mixed cluster of PC/Linux, Sparc/Solaris and
> > DEC/Digital Unix computers; I have on all of them installed gcc
> > 2.95.2, and I tried to install perl 5.6.0. I had no problems with
> > Linux and Solaris: but on DEC Alpha machines the "Configure" script
> > does not recognize the existence of gcc 2.95.2 (the _only_ gcc in the
> > PATH). I succeeded installing perl with the default DEC C compiler,
> > but that bug is annoying.
>
> Thanks for the report. I now fixed the hints file so that
> those three-part version numbers should be recognized okay.
Hrrrm. Whether that was worth it is debatable. op/regexp* seem to
compile and test okay (they used to be a pain with gcc) in Digital
UNIX 4.0E with gcc 2.95.2 but lib/sdbm core still dumps core :-/
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