Also, Configure might abort with
- Build a threading Perl? [n]
- Configure[2437]: Syntax error at line 1 : 'config.sh' is not expected.
+ Build a threading Perl? [n]
+ Configure[2437]: Syntax error at line 1 : 'config.sh' is not expected.
This indicates that Configure is being run with a broken Korn shell
(even though you think you are using a Bourne shell by using
When compiling Perl in Tru64 you may (depending on the compiler
release) see two warnings like this
- cc: Warning: numeric.c, line 104: In this statement, floating-point
- overflow occurs in evaluating the expression "1.8e308". (floatoverfl)
- return HUGE_VAL;
- -----------^
+ cc: Warning: numeric.c, line 104: In this statement, floating-point
+ overflow occurs in evaluating the expression "1.8e308". (floatoverfl)
+ return HUGE_VAL;
+ -----------^
and when compiling the POSIX extension
- cc: Warning: const-c.inc, line 2007: In this statement, floating-point
- overflow occurs in evaluating the expression "1.8e308". (floatoverfl)
- return HUGE_VAL;
- -------------------^
+ cc: Warning: const-c.inc, line 2007: In this statement, floating-point
+ overflow occurs in evaluating the expression "1.8e308". (floatoverfl)
+ return HUGE_VAL;
+ -------------------^
The exact line numbers may vary between Perl releases. The warnings
are benign and can be ignored: in later C compiler releases the warnings