[ID 20010116.022] Upgraded to 5.6 and am getting errors with BRUBackup software

This is a bug report for perl from georgek@netwrx1.com,
generated with the help of perlbug 1.28 running under perl v5.6.0.


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[Please enter your report here]
Hello:

I just upgraded perl from 5.005_02 to 5.6.0 and I'm now seeing the 
following errors from the BRU baxkup software package from EST under linux 
2.4.0:

bru: [W013] "/mnt/scsi-1/Linux/perl-5.6.0/t/big": can't stat: errno = 75, 
Value too large for defined data type

Here attached is the outpuit of myconfig and perlbug script:

[root@eagle perl-5.6.0]# myconfig
bash: myconfig: command not found
[root@eagle perl-5.6.0]# ./myconfig
Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 6 subversion 0) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=linux, osvers=2.4.0-ac5, archname=i686-linux
    uname='linux eagle.netwrx1.com 2.4.0-ac5 #1 wed jan 10 15:14:36 cst 
2001 i68
6 unknown '
    config_args=''
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=undef usemultiplicity=undef
    useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define
    use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef usesocks=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='cc', optimize='-O2', gccversion=2.95.2 19991024 (release)
    cppflags='-fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include'
    ccflags ='-fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_F ILE_OFFSET_BITS=64'
    stdchar='char', d_stdstdio=define, usevfork=false
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
    ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize =8
    alignbytes=4, usemymalloc=n, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='cc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib'
    libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib
    libs=-lnsl -lndbm -lgdbm -ldb -ldl -lm -lc -lposix -lcrypt
    libc=/lib/libc-2.1.1.so, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-rdynamic'
    cccdlflags='-fpic', lddlflags='-shared -L/usr/local/lib'

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Flags:
    category=core
    severity=medium
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Site configuration information for perl v5.6.0:

Configured by georgek at Thu Jan 11 22:28:30 CST 2001.

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 6 subversion 0) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=linux, osvers=2.4.0-ac5, archname=i686-linux
    uname='linux eagle.netwrx1.com 2.4.0-ac5 #1 wed jan 10 15:14:36 cst 2001 i686 unknown '
    config_args=''
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=undef usemultiplicity=undef
    useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define 
    use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef usesocks=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='cc', optimize='-O2', gccversion=2.95.2 19991024 (release)
    cppflags='-fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include'
    ccflags ='-fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64'
    stdchar='char', d_stdstdio=define, usevfork=false
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
    ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8
    alignbytes=4, usemymalloc=n, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='cc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib'
    libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib
    libs=-lnsl -lndbm -lgdbm -ldb -ldl -lm -lc -lposix -lcrypt
    libc=/lib/libc-2.1.1.so, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-rdynamic'
    cccdlflags='-fpic', lddlflags='-shared -L/usr/local/lib'

Locally applied patches:
    

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@INC for perl v5.6.0:
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.0/i686-linux
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.0
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/i686-linux
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl
    .

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Environment for perl v5.6.0:
    HOME=/root
    LANG (unset)
    LANGUAGE (unset)
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib
    LOGDIR (unset)
    PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/opt/bin:/opt/teTeX/bin:/opt/kde/bin:/usr/java/bin
    PERL_BADLANG (unset)
    SHELL=/bin/bash

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