Perl 4.0 on the Iris

[Paul Pomes - UofIllinois CSO]

meuer at quasifuchs.cs.umn.edu (meuer) writes:

>I'm having trouble compiling perl 4.0 on the Iris and was wondering if
>anyone else has run into this.

This help me get 3.44 going a while back, it may help you now.

/pbp
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: has anyone gotten Perl3pl41 to work under Irix 3.3.1
Date: 4 Dec 90 20:53:23 GMT
Reply-To: chk%alias at csri.toronto.edu (C. Harald Koch)
Organization: Alias Research, Inc. Toronto ON Canadaa
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In <1990Dec1.161952.19468 at csrd.uiuc.edu> pat at kai.com (Patrick Wolfe) writes:

>Has anyone been able to get Perl version 3 patchlevel 41 to work properly unde
r
>Irix 3.3.1?

After running Configure, edit the config.sh file and disable vfork, memcmp,
and volatile, and add -D_BSD_COMPAT to the cflags define. This works for me.

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