make test failed (patch 41) on a SGI Irix 3.3.1

[Larry Wall]

In article <SCP.91Jan9201403 at grizzly.acl.lanl.gov> scp at acl.lanl.gov writes:
: 
: In article <1991Jan8.205912.3798 at ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz> russell at ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Russell J Fulton;ccc032u) writes:
: 
:    I have just applied patches 37-41 and recompiled without appearent problems.
:    But when I try and run the test it fails the last test:
: 
:    [stuff deleted]
: 
:    lib.big.........FAILED on test 0
:    *** Error code -1 (ignored)

That'll be fixed in 42.

: Well I having even more problems than that!
: 
: [on a 3.3.1 380VGX, using the Power C compiler, -O -D_BSD_SIGNALS,
: perl 3.0 pl41, usual defaults]
: 
: t/TEST wouldn't even run (problems with "``" evaluations) until I undef'ed
: vfork.
: 
: Then it FAILED op.eval test 0, and ran out of memory on op.s, and
: FAILED lib.big test 0.  As I was using perl's malloc, I reconfiged
: to use the system malloc.  Now op.s runs until it has consumed all
: the memory on may machine, and can't possibly be killed.  op.eval
: unpredictably fails or goes into never-never land.  It's tiresome
: using the reset button on the beast!
: 
: I'm still chasing after these, but if anyone's found the cure, I'd sure
: like to hear about it!

Try not using -O.

Larry