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| author | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 1998-07-31 16:13:57 +0300 |
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| committer | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 1998-08-02 04:39:14 +0000 |
| commit | 6087ac4414f58a8f56f41d3b670cd75f7a5e6936 (patch) | |
| tree | 7462efad1880ee60b5108353620202d8ef691e4b /INSTALL | |
| parent | ed0d1bf7a96441c0ced673e08553f37b3d8b5613 (diff) | |
| download | perl-6087ac4414f58a8f56f41d3b670cd75f7a5e6936.tar.gz | |
better validation of SysV IPC availability
Message-Id: <199807311013.NAA28887@koah.research.nokia.com>
Subject: Re: lib/ipc_sysv.t fails under FreeBSD 2.2.1
p4raw-id: //depot/maint-5.005/perl@1692
Diffstat (limited to 'INSTALL')
| -rw-r--r-- | INSTALL | 10 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -1203,6 +1203,13 @@ Old versions of the DB library (including the DB library which comes with FreeBSD 2.1) had broken handling of recno databases with modified bval settings. Upgrade your DB library or OS. +=item Bad arg length for semctl, is XX, should be ZZZ + +If you get this error message from the lib/ipc_sysv test, your System +V IPC may be broken. The XX typically is 20, and that is what ZZZ +also should be. Consider upgrading your OS, or reconfiguring your OS +to include the System V semaphores. + =item Miscellaneous Some additional things that have been reported for either perl4 or perl5: @@ -1213,6 +1220,9 @@ NCR Tower 32 (OS 2.01.01) may need -W2,-Sl,2000 and #undef MKDIR. UTS may need one or more of -DCRIPPLED_CC, -K or -g, and undef LSTAT. +FreeBSD will fail the lib/ipc_sysv.t test if SysV IPC has not been +configured to the kernel. + If you get syntax errors on '(', try -DCRIPPLED_CC. Machines with half-implemented dbm routines will need to #undef I_ODBM |