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Subject:    SUMMARY: perl5 gobbles core - config error?
From:       Simon Greaves <censjg () caledonia ! hw ! ac ! uk>
Date:       1995-09-30 18:34:28
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Subject: SUMMARY: perl5 gobbles core - config error?
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From: Simon Greaves <censjg@caledonia.hw.ac.uk>
Subject: SUMMARY: perl5 gobbles core - config error?
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My original message:

> I'm having some problems with perl 5.001 on a 2100/DEC Unix V3.2A,  
> specifically intense memory use and just plain crashes.

> Problems so far have been experienced using ftplib.pl, a (perl4?) 
> library for  scripting ftp transactions, and option processing with 
> [new]getopt[s].pl.

> Ftp stuff gobbles core like there's no tomorrow then dies (out of 
> memory),  getopt stuff dies with alignment errors like:

> Unaligned access pid=25756 <ptest.pl> va=14002050b pc=120062afc 
> ra=12001937c  type=ldl Unaligned access pid=25756 <ptest.pl> 
> va=1400204ff pc=120062ba0 ra=12001937c  type=ldq Segmentation fault

> Perl4 works fine with all these, I built both perl4 & 5 using gcc 
> 2.6.3, maybe  I screwed my perl5 config (think I just accepted 
> defaults), any ideas? 

Big thanks to John Stoffel <john@wpi.edu> for the following:

  You first of all want to get the latest version of perl5, which is
  perl5.001m and can be found on ftp.wpi.edu/perl5/perl5.001m.tar.gz.
  This version has alot of bug fixes over the 5.001 version and is known
  to work pretty well on the Digital Unix.  

  Of course the problem could be with the ftplib.pl library itself.
  Does the program work at all, or does it just sit there and then die?
  You should probably try asking the author of the program if there is a
  perl5 version of that library.

and also:

  5.001m is the official unofficial version of perl.  It's got Larry's
  blessing, and hopefully 5.002 is going to be out real soon now, but
  don't hold your breath.


This confirmed my own suspicions, I 've been using perl 5.001m on a couple of 
Sun's without problem, just wasn't sure if this was an Alpha wierdness, guess 
I'll just have to compile it and see.

Simon Greaves
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