Problems with perl

[Larry Wall]

In article <1220 at zen.UUCP> vic at zen.UUCP (Victor Gavin) writes:
: Can anyone fill me in on the current status of perl as we still haven't got it
: working.
: 
: We are running an HP9000 model 840 with HPUX 1.2, perl is at patchlevel 29.

The current status of perl is that version 2.0 beta 1 is available for
anyone with anonymous ftp to get and test.  Is there anyone out there that
could test on HPUX for me?  Get it from jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov (128.149.8.43).
Did my previous announcement of the new version get out?

: The test programs fail with the following messages:
: 
: io.dup...FAILED on test 2

Not sure if this is fixed in 2.0--probably not.

: io.fs...FAILED on test 2
: symlink() not supported on this machine at line 73.

This is fixed in 2.0.

: op.pat...FAILED on test 27
: 
: op.split...FAILED on test 3
: 
: op.subst...FAILED on test 28
: Substitution pattern not terminated at line 45.

These 3 tests may be fixed, but I'm not sure.  Did you try it with
both the supplied malloc and the system malloc?

If the problem is in the search routines (and op.pat, op.split & op.subst all
do searches) then the problem may go away simply because I've got entirely
new regular expression routines in 2.0, borrowed for the occasion from
Mr. Henry Spencer, whom I would trust to design a spacecraft, a bridge,
a computer program, or anything else I was going to process or be processed by,
or hopefully not processed by, whatever.

Larry Wall
lwall at jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov