I hope this proves adequate for BS2000 folks (an OS I cannot test). This does the trick (at least for a static build) on OS/390. File affected: t/lib/b.t Enjoy. --- t/lib/b.t.orig Fri Jan 26 16:03:43 2001 +++ t/lib/b.t Fri Jan 26 16:30:06 2001 @@ -71,6 +71,8 @@ my $Is_VMS = $^O eq 'VMS'; $a = `$^X "-I../lib" "-MO=Deparse" -anle 1 2>&1`; $a =~ s/-e syntax OK\n//g; +$a =~ s{\\340\\242}{\\s} if (ord("\\") == 224); # EBCDIC, cp 1047 or 037 +$a =~ s{\\274\\242}{\\s} if (ord("\\") == 188); # $^O eq 'posix-bc' $b = <<'EOF'; LINE: while (defined($_ = <ARGV>)) { @@ -140,7 +142,12 @@ print "# use5005threads: test $test skipped\n"; } else { $a = `$^X "-I../lib" "-MO=Showlex" -e "my %one" 2>&1`; - print "# [$a]\nnot " unless $a =~ /sv_undef.*PVNV.*%one.*sv_undef.*HV/s; + if (ord('A') != 193) { # ASCIIish + print "# [$a]\nnot " unless $a =~ /sv_undef.*PVNV.*%one.*sv_undef.*HV/s; + } + else { # EBCDICish C<1: PVNV (0x1a7ede34) "%\226\225\205"> + print "# [$a]\nnot " unless $a =~ /sv_undef.*PVNV.*%\\[0-9].*sv_undef.*HV/s; + } } ok; End of Patch. Peter Prymmer