From Chris.Beere@cwcom.co.uk

Hello,
  I have downloaded perl5.005_003, unpacked it, ran "sh Configure" and
then "make >make.log 2>&1". make.log is attached which contains a fair
number of warnings, and a floating point exception at the end. Any ideas why
I am getting the exception?
Also attached is the output from myconfig,

regards

Chris

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<<make.log>> <<myconfig.log>>

From Chris.Beere@cwcom.co.uk

make.log

From Chris.Beere@cwcom.co.uk

myconfig.log

From @doughera88

On Fri, 5 Nov 1999, Beere, Chris wrote​:

number of warnings, and a floating point exception at the end. Any ideas why
I am getting the exception?
Also attached is the output from myconfig,

I don't know specifically why you're getting the results you are, but
I'll note that​:

Summary of my perl5 (5.0 patchlevel 5 subversion 3) configuration​:
osname=sysv, osvers=r3v8, archname=M68040-sysv
uname='hilda hilda r3v8 991006 m68040 '

cc='/usr/bin/gnucc'\, optimize='\-O'\, gccversion=2\.4\.5

You have a *very* old gcc version there. Are you *sure* it's the appropriate
version for the operating system you're running? Or have you perchance
upgraded the OS in the past few years?

In any case, your best starting point may be to try a more recent
gcc. If that's not possible, perhaps you could try without optimization
enabled (see INSTALL).

If all of this is to no avail, please try building a debugging perl
(see INSTALL) and run 'make minitest'. That may help narrow things down
a bit. Or it may not.

But first try a newer gcc.

Hope this helps,

  Andy Dougherty doughera@​lafayette.edu
  Dept. of Physics
  Lafayette College, Easton PA 18042

From The RT System itself

  Yes I did eventually get Perl 5.005_03 built. After a
lot of effort I managed to upgrade gcc from 2.4.5 to egcs-2.91.66. Perl
works very well and I have enjoyed learning the language.

On this old version of Unix (Sys V R3) there is no dynamic linking, and
after adding in everything that I thought would be useful, the launch time
became very slow. Compared to the 1st build vith no extensions and a
reasonable launch time, this is a drawback.