On 5 Oct 1998, Darren Stalder wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Matt McLean, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote: > >this is necessary since the semun union is no longer in the libc. its been > >awhile since your last perl upload, and newer versions have come out.. are > >you still alive? :-) > > I thought I'd be able to have access to a PPC Linux box today, but > that's not going to happen. The semun union patch didn't make it into > this version of Perl since doio.c has changed quite a bit. Can you > please check it to make sure it's still needed and get me a new patch if > it is?
It's no longer needed. 5.00502 now has a configure test for union semun. I just did an out-of-box compile and these were the test results: Failed Test Status Wstat Total Fail Failed List of failed ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- lib/anydbm.t 12 1 8.33% 12 lib/ipc_sysv.t 0 11 ?? ?? % ?? 2 tests skipped, plus 14 subtests skipped. Failed 2/186 test scripts, 98.92% okay. 1/6495 subtests failed, 99.98% okay. zsh: exit 29 ./perl harness I know what's going on with IPC, and I'm guessing the DBM test is failing because of a bug in the libc. m.
