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Diffstat (limited to 'hints/machten.sh')
| -rw-r--r-- | hints/machten.sh | 26 |
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/hints/machten.sh b/hints/machten.sh index 25b7062ea5..2ae79f17e3 100644 --- a/hints/machten.sh +++ b/hints/machten.sh @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ # Martijn Koster <m.koster@webcrawler.com> # Richard Yeh <rcyeh@cco.caltech.edu> # +# Use of semctl() can crash system: disable -- Dominic Dunlop 980506 # Raise stack size further; slight tweaks to accomodate MT 4.1 # -- Dominic Dunlop <domo@computer.org> 980211 # Raise perl's stack size -- Dominic Dunlop <domo@tcp.ip.lu> 970922 @@ -53,6 +54,9 @@ alignbytes=8 # friends. Use setjmp and friends instead. expr "$osvers" \< "4.0.3" > /dev/null && d_sigsetjmp='undef' +# semctl(.., .., IPC_STATUS, ..) hangs system: say we don't have semctl() +d_semctl='undef' + # Get rid of some extra libs which it takes Configure a tediously # long time never to find on MachTen set `echo X "$libswanted "|sed -e 's/ net / /' -e 's/ socket / /' \ @@ -75,11 +79,14 @@ dont_use_nlink=define cat <<'EOM' >&4 -Tests - io/fs test 4 and - op/stat test 3 -may fail since MachTen may not return a useful nlinks field to stat -on directories. +During Configure, you may see the message + +*** WHOA THERE!!! *** + The recommended value for $d_semctl on this machine was "undef"! + Keep the recommended value? [y] + +Select the default answer: semctl() is buggy, and perl should be built +without it. At the end of Configure, you will see a harmless message @@ -88,5 +95,12 @@ Hmm...You had some extra variables I don't know about...I'll try to keep 'em. Propagating recommended variable nmopts Read the File::Find documentation for more information about dont_use_nlink +Tests + io/fs test 4 and + op/stat test 3 +may fail since MachTen may not return a useful nlinks field to stat +on directories. + EOM -expr "$osvers" \< "4.1" && test -r ./broken-db.msg && . ./broken-db.msg +expr "$osvers" \< "4.1" >/dev/null && test -r ./broken-db.msg && \ + . ./broken-db.msg |