Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 13:30:16 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: "Clement K. Lau" <clau AT eng DOT sun DOT com>
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: perl for v2 djgpp
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On 18 Jun 1996, Clement K. Lau wrote:

> tries to run a makefile that uses perl.  As soon as make attempts
> to execute perl, I got a segmentation violation and the machine
> sometimes even crashes and reboots after I type the next command.
> When I use the old gnu make compiled by v1 djgpp, I don't have
> this problem.  The perl I use is version 4.036 compiled with
> Watcom C. Does anyone know what's wrong?  Thanks. 

It might well be a conflict between whatever DOS extender is used by 
Watcom-compiled programs and the DPMI environment used by DJGPP.  Did you 
try to run a 16-bit port of Perl?