Problems with perl

[Victor Gavin]

Can anyone fill me in on the current status of perl as we still haven't got it
working.

We are running an HP9000 model 840 with HPUX 1.2, perl is at patchlevel 29.

The test programs fail with the following messages:

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io.dup...FAILED on test 2

io.fs...FAILED on test 2
symlink() not supported on this machine at line 73.

op.pat...FAILED on test 27

op.split...FAILED on test 3

op.subst...FAILED on test 28
Substitution pattern not terminated at line 45.

Failed 6 tests. at line 86, <results> line 3.

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>From a cursive examination of one of the errors the problem appears to be in
the memory allocation/deallocation routines.

The failed tests which I checked out seem to work on their own but when placed
in the file with the rest of the tests refuse to work -- though one did start
working when I placed a few probe statements in.

Has anyone any ideas, fixes or suggestions ?

Thanx in advance,
		vic
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