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Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1999 16:36:16 -0800
From: Nate Eldredge <nate AT cartsys DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Perl 5.004/5.005 compilation problems
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Laszlo Molnar wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Mar 03, 1999 at 08:23:20PM +0000, Richard Dawe wrote:
> > > Well, this can be a problem. Try to configure the stuff from plain dos.
> > > The win9x build is a little bit broken in perl < 5.005_03 (since I only
> > > tried it on dos :-)
> >       OK, I tried it on DOS, but it crashed my computer one time, spontaneous
> > rebooted another :(
> 
> Sounds bad :( I only saw problems like these when I started porting
> perl 2 years ago.

One thing you might check: that everything that's being run is really
the executable you think.  Some time ago I was compiling some GNU
software under DOS, and found out the hard way that VMS scripts are also
named *.com.  (Yes, someone included `make.com' to build under VMS...
DOS doesn't take kindly to executing text.)  I saw hard crashes and
reboots there too.
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Nate Eldredge
nate AT cartsys DOT com