Re: 5.002beta1 oddities
Andreas Koenig (k@anna.mind.de)
Mon, 27 Nov 1995 19:21:31 +0100
>>>>> "mike" == Mike Stok <stok@cybercom.net> writes:
mike> Trying to install libwww-perl I got an unaligned access error (I got the
mike> same error, but after the 'Looks good', when I tried 5b5 as well)
mike> Unaligned access pid=13536 <perl> va=726574726f707845 pc=12005f708 ra=120017758
mike> type=ldq
mike> Checking if your kit is complete...
mike> Looks good
mike> Writing Makefile for libwww-perl
It's exactly the bug that I reported to p5p a few days ago. The bug is
in perl, not in libwww.
Workaround is:
mv VERSION VERSION.5b6
touch VERSION
That is, the perl bug uccurs after the eval that is done within the
VERSION program.
andreas