[inseparable changes from match from perl-5.003_90 to perl-5.003_91]

 BUILD PROCESS

Subject: Sanity check linking with $libs
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 14:13:45 -0500 (EST)
From: Andy Dougherty <doughera@fractal.phys.lafayette.edu>
Files: Configure
Msg-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.95q.970225221634.2486A-100000@fractal.lafayette.edu>

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit 5c37e92e59bb92e49d5a21017cd6dc066a28ddea)

Subject: Flush stdout when printing $randbits guess
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: Configure

Subject: Configure changes for Irix nm
From: Helmut Jarausch <helmutjarausch@unknown>
Files: Configure

 CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES

Subject: Fix perl_call_*() when !G_EVAL
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 02:25:56 -0500
From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
Files: MANIFEST gv.c interp.sym perl.c perl.h pp_ctl.c pp_sys.c t/op/runlevel.t
Msg-ID: <199702250725.CAA09192@aatma.engin.umich.edu>, <199702251925.OAA15498@aatma.engin.umich.edu>, <199702252200.RAA16853@aatma.engin.umich.edu>

    (applied based on p5p patch as commits 40f788c454d994616342c409de5b5d181ad9b8af, and 907a881cde89c56bc61d3f314c0efb8754ca472a, 20efc0829f6564c44574762adb07e8865bc14026)

Subject: Fix taint tests for writeable dirs in $ENV{PATH}
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: mg.c mg.h pod/perlsec.pod taint.c

Subject: Forbid tainted parameters for truncate()
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: pp_sys.c

Subject: Don't taint magic hash keys unnecessarily
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 02:11:26 -0500 (EST)
From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
Files: hv.c

    private-msgid: <01IFXL9TY74Y00661G@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>

 CORE PORTABILITY

Subject: VMS patches post _90
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 15:26:33 -0500 (EST)
From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
Files: doio.c mg.c perl.h pp_hot.c t/op/rand.t t/op/taint.t taint.c vms/descrip.mms vms/vms.c

    private-msgid: <01IFYDE5ZT7O005A53@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>

Subject: Fix taint check in system() and exec() under VMS and OS/2
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: pp_sys.c

Subject: If _XOPEN_VERSION >= 4, socket length parameters are size_t
From: Michael H. Moran <mhm@austin.ibm.com>
Files: perl.h pp_sys.c

Subject: Make dooneliner() compile again
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: pp_sys.c

 DOCUMENTATION

Subject: Move ENVIRONMENT from perl.pod to perlrun.pod
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: pod/perl.pod pod/perlrun.pod

Subject: Describe PERL_DEBUG_MSTATS in perlrun.pod
From: Nat <gnat@frii.com>
Files: pod/perlrun.pod

Subject: Fix references to perlbug
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: pod/perl.pod pod/perldelta.pod pod/perllocale.pod pod/perltoc.pod

 OTHER CORE CHANGES

Subject: Short-circuit duplicate study() calls
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: pp.c

Subject: Call sv_set[iu]v() with [IU]V parameter, not [IU]32
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: perl.c pp.c pp_sys.c toke.c util.c

Subject: Clean up and document API for hashes
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 13:24:02 -0500
From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
Files: hv.c hv.h pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlguts.pod
Msg-ID: <199702251824.NAA14859@aatma.engin.umich.edu>

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit a61fe43df197fcc70e6f310c06ee17d52b606c45)

Subject: pp_undef was not always freeing memory
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 01:53:51 -0500 (EST)
From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
Files: pp.c
Msg-ID: <199702270653.BAA13949@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit 1da885048b65b5be1bd3077c6fc45f92c567e1b5)

Subject: Don't examine rx->exec_tainted if pregexec() fails
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: pp_hot.c

 TESTS

Subject: New test op/taint.t
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 11:36:53 -0800 (PST)
From: Tom Phoenix <rootbeer@teleport.com>
Files: MANIFEST t/op/taint.t

    private-msgid: <Pine.GSO.3.95q.970225101328.18288M-100000@kelly.teleport.com

Subject: Patch to t/op/rand.t
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 18:19:34 -0800 (PST)
From: Tom Phoenix <rootbeer@teleport.com>
Files: t/op/rand.t

    private-msgid: <Pine.GSO.3.95q.970225181321.13796Q-100000@kelly.teleport.com

 UTILITIES

Subject: Add --lax option to pod2man; use it in perldoc
From: Nat <gnat@frii.com>
Files: pod/pod2man.PL utils/perldoc.PL

Subject: Eliminate dead code in pod2man
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: pod/pod2man.PL

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/t/op/rand.t b/t/op/rand.t
index 9e4d69284e..4eeca6b10c 100755
--- a/t/op/rand.t
+++ b/t/op/rand.t
@@ -74,13 +74,13 @@ sub bits ($) {
     # reason that the diagnostic message might get the
     # wrong value is that Config.pm is incorrect.)
     #
-    if ($max <= 0) {	# Just in case...
+    if ($max <= 0 or $max >= (1 << $randbits)) {	# Just in case...
 	print "not ok 1\n";
 	print "# This perl was compiled with randbits=$randbits\n";
 	print "# which is _way_ off. Or maybe your system rand is broken,\n";
 	print "# or your C compiler can't multiply, or maybe Martians\n";
 	print "# have taken over your computer. For starters, see about\n";
-	print "# trying a better value for randbits.\n";
+	print "# trying a better value for randbits, probably smaller.\n";
 	# If that isn't the problem, we'll have
 	# to put d_martians into Config.pm 
 	print "# Skipping remaining tests until randbits is fixed.\n";
@@ -329,7 +329,12 @@ AUTOSRAND:
 
     my($pid, $first);
     for (1..5) {
-	$pid = open PERL, "./perl -e 'print rand'|";
+	if ($^O eq 'VMS') {
+	    $pid = open PERL, qq[MCR $^X -e "print rand"|];
+	}
+	else {
+	    $pid = open PERL, "./perl -e 'print rand'|";
+	}
 	die "Couldn't pipe from perl: $!" unless defined $pid;
 	if (defined $first) {
 	    if ($first ne <PERL>) {