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