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i am currently building it in /opt on lead1 with the basic defaults On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Robb Kambic wrote: > Sure, 5.004_5 will do. > > Thanks, > Robb... > > > > On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Doug Smith wrote: > > > > > I will try and do this today from home. had to dig to find a source tree > > for perl 5.004_5 will this do? > > > > > > On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Robb Kambic wrote: > > > > > Doug, > > > > > > perl installation needed. > > > > > > This is perl, version 5.004 > > > > > > Copyright 1987-1997, Larry Wall > > > > > > needs to be installed on lead1, current version 5.8.0 has a problem and I > > > need to have same version as motherlode for testing. > > > > > > Details: > > > > > > Some of the perl decoders have been acting strangly on lead1. ie Eating > > > up most of the CPU. After doing extensive checking, comparing motherlode > > > and lead1 code bases. Decoders run ok on motherlode. The version > > > of perl on lead1 5.8.0 has a problem with the select stmt. ie > > > > > > The four-argument form of select() did not preserve $! (errno) properly > > > when there were errors in the underlying call. This is now fixed. > > > version 5.8.1 > > > > > > This function is critical to the perl decoders. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Robb... > > > > > > > > > =============================================================================== > > > Robb Kambic Unidata Program Center > > > Software Engineer III Univ. Corp for Atmospheric > > > Research > > > address@hidden WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ > > > =============================================================================== > > > > > > > =============================================================================== > Robb Kambic Unidata Program Center > Software Engineer III Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research > address@hidden WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ > =============================================================================== >