Hello Craig,
>>I have an Itanium rx2600 running VMS 8.1, so I thought I'd try and build
>>this release of Perl there. To summarise ...
>>
>> - I ran @CONFIGURE and answered all the questions. I said "Y" to the
>> questions on 64bit support, but the configure procedure crashed with
>> and RMS-F-EOF error shortly after displaying the message
>> "Checking whether your NVs can preserve your UVs...".
>
>Interesting test, one I haven't tried. Obviously there's some work
>to do in this area. Does this still work on Alpha? I haven't tried
>it there recently but it used to work fine.
I haven't tried building 8.5.3-RC1 on Alpha yet.
>> - I ran MMS TEST which (eventually) crashed the system :-(
>>
>>After the system rebooted I logged in again and ran MMS TEST again, with
>>exactly the same result ... system crashed at the same point in the MMS TEST
>>output.
>
>Ditto, again, in my work on the testdrive system. I should have
>mentioned something about this, but I didn't realize folks would
>already be chomping at the bit to run Perl on their I64 systems.
Those of us at the bleeding edge like to feel the pain :-)
Seriously, one thing IA64 is good for right now is web serving, especially
since there are so few other applications which have been ported. (Both
Apache and WASD have been ported; I don't know about OSU.) Perl is the
logical thing to get up and running ASAP.
>This was an OS bug that has been fixed. I reported the problem and
>handed reproducer details off to the system manager of the testdrive
>system, who passed it along to engineering, who fixed it within a few
>days.
Thanks for the details. I've passed them on to my OpenVMS Ambassador who
will (hopefully!) be able to get an update for my system.
Regards,
Jeremy Begg
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