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I am trying to install Perl 5.6.0 on an AIX 4.2.1 machine. I built with
the platform defaults and did not see any errors with the make. But, three
of the test scripts fail, lib/io_multihomed.t, lib/io_sock.t, and
lib/io_udp.t, with an error status of 6. Running them individually with
the -w flag yielded nothing new. I stepped through them with the perl
debugger and found that they never returned from the IO::Socket::INET
constructor. Specifically, they all died on the statement
IO::Socket::INET::_sock_info(../lib/IO/Socket/INET.pm:44):
44: if (@proto = ( $proto =~ m,\D,
45: ? getprotobyname($proto)
46: : getprotobynumber($proto))
47: ) {
DB<1>
I suspect a brain-dead compiler but would like to work around it since it
seems that I am so close. I am running xlC v4.4 and have already run into
a known problem with that version of the compiler and the Apache source. I
searched the list archive and saw some traffic about the compiler but not
my particular problem.
I am not sure where to go from here. I have ordered xlC v5.0 and will try
again when it gets here. I can not update the O/S now but could apply some
patches.
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