From ted.x.wang@db.com

Hi, there​:

  I downloaded perl5.6.0 from cspan site and try to build and install on my AIX4.3.3. platform using gcc 2.95 compiler in my own home directory[not an SA].

It works fine for all the make, and run into 2 errors on the "make test" phase.

Here is the output from the "make test" ..

lib/filefind.........FAILED at test 3
lib/filefunc.........ok
lib/filehand.........ok
lib/filepath.........ok
lib/filespec.........ok
lib/findbin..........readdir(./../../..)​: A file descriptor does not refer to an
open file. at ../lib/FindBin.pm line 143
FAILED at test 1

Failed 2 test scripts out of 228, 99.12% okay.
  ### Since not all tests were successful, you may want to run some
  ### of them individually and examine any diagnostic messages they
  ### produce. See the INSTALL document's section on "make test".
  ### If you are testing the compiler, then ignore this message
  ### and run
  ### ./perl harness
  ### in the directory ./t.
  ###
  ### Since most tests were successful, you have a good chance to
  ### get information with better granularity by running
  ### ./perl harness
  ### in directory ./t.
u=2.39 s=4.37 cu=130.81 cs=117.71 scripts=228 tests=11477
make​: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 1.

Has anyone run into this kind of problem ? Where could it be wrong ?

Thanks.

Ted Wang

From @dmcbride

The symptoms remind me a bit of 19877 - NFS-related. You wouldn't
happen to have been trying this on an NFS-mounted filesystem (or other
non-local filesystem)?

That being said, we are talking about a bunch of no-longer-supported
products​: AIX 4.3, gcc 2.95, perl 5.6. All three need to be updated.

From @dcollinsn

With no contact from the originator in 16 years and insufficient information to reproduce, I'd like to close this. Evidence is that modern perl does successfully build on AIX systems, so if you believe this is still a bug, please open a new ticket.

From [Unknown Contact. See original ticket]

With no contact from the originator in 16 years and insufficient information to reproduce, I'd like to close this. Evidence is that modern perl does successfully build on AIX systems, so if you believe this is still a bug, please open a new ticket.

@dcollinsn - Status changed from 'open' to 'abandoned'