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diff --git a/README.irix b/README.irix index 8ef9692d3d..ca6ec2c747 100644 --- a/README.irix +++ b/README.irix @@ -92,6 +92,24 @@ and later are okay. Thanks to Hannu Napari <Hannu.Napari@hut.fi> for the IRIX pthreads patches information. +=head2 Irix 5.3 + +In IRIX 5.3 and with Perl 5.8.1 (Perl 5.8.0 didn't compile in IRIX 5.3) +the following failures are known. + + Failed Test Stat Wstat Total Fail Failed List of Failed + -------------------------------------------------------------------------- + ../ext/List/Util/t/shuffle.t 0 139 ?? ?? % ?? + ../lib/sort.t 0 138 119 72 60.50% 48-119 + 54 tests and 430 subtests skipped. + Failed 2/767 test scripts, 99.74% okay. 72/70246 subtests failed, 99.90% okay. + +They are suspected to be compiler errors (at least the shuffle.t failure is +known from some IRIX 6 setups), but since IRIX 5 is long since end-of-lifed, +fixes for the IRIX compiler are unlikely. If you can get gcc for 5.3, +you could try that, too, since gcc in IRIX 6 is a known workaround for +these failures. + =head1 AUTHOR Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> |