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On Sun Oct 05 11:16:52 2008, doughera wrote: > On Sat, 4 Oct 2008, Nicholas Clark wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 01:48:23PM -0700, Peterson, Bob D (MN14) > wrote: > > > > > We need a relatively new version of perl running on "SunOS cxh > 4.1.3_U1 > > > 3 sun4m". We can't upgrade the OS because of frozen vendor > software. I > > > > Gosh. That's rather frozen. > > Whilst Perl 5.000 was first developed on SunOS, I don't know if > anyone > > has tried to build it there recently. > > I don't think I've tried in many years. Probably not since 2001. > > > > I'm not experienced with large scale builds like this, but I > thought I > > > would try it anyways. The compiler used was "gcc". > > > > > > The build itself went okay (quite a few "implicit function > declaration" > > > warnings) but some of the tests are failing. To the inexperienced > eye, > > > it looks like the most troublesome problem is the "lib/sort" test. > I > > > expect that we'll be using sort extensively. > > > > Yes. That looks like a potential problem. > > I vaguely recall runing into some gcc-specific sparc optimization > issues > some years ago in the sort routines. I'd be strongly inclined to try > again without any optimization. > > > What is the value of $^O on SunOS 4? (And for that matter on SunOS 5 > - I don't > > have access to anything Solaris any more) > > I think both are 'sunos'. > I reviewed this ticket today. The original poster has not responded in more than four years. The version of Perl in question is out of support. I recommend the ticket be closed. I will do so in seven days unless someone wishes to take over the discussion and move it in a constructive direction. Thank you very much. Jim Keenan --- via perlbug: queue: perl5 status: open https://rt.perl.org:443/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=59456Thread Previous | Thread Next