Re: perl@10517 (Fail)

[Peter Prymmer]

On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:

> > I'm not getting the bus error others are seeing, just the above error.  
> 
> It would be nice to know why not, though.  Hmmm.  Maybe your locale
> configuration is somehow better (as in, you have some working locales
> installed) than the out-of-the-box one?  (If my theory about the
> combination of PerlIO and locales being the cause of the core dump is
> correct, the core dump should be avoidable by setting LC_ALL to C
> before starting to build Perl.)

FWIW (probably not much in this context) folks have reported difficulty
with perl's tr/// op using perl 5.005_03 on OS/390 with LC_ALL set to
some non-default thing like En_US.IBM-1047.  I may need to work around
the setlocale() calls in util.c (???)

Peter Prymmer