Date: Wed, 2 Jul 1997 16:40:18 +0200 (METDST)
From: Robert Hoehne <robert DOT hoehne AT mathematik DOT tu-chemnitz DOT de>
To: Molnar Laszlo <molnarl AT cdata DOT tvnet DOT hu>
Cc: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Memory leak in bash
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On Tue, 1 Jul 1997, Molnar Laszlo wrote:

> ps: I've found this problem in perl5.004's Configure script.

Ah!! I cannot say something about the reason(s), but I will
say only that I had a similar problem when I tried the
perl port (I gave up then). 

I was not able to run the configure script because of
low memory (but I had 20MB real and about 40MB swap).

I think this comes from the technique in the scripts
like

. included.sh

>     . ./test1.sh         # if you change this line to "sh ./test1.sh"

I think you should post this to the perl maintainer.

There are also other things I don't understand. For instance
why they are using such an exotic configuartion script
instead one produced by autoconf?


Robert
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