Porting Perl 5.8.7 to CE 5.0

hi all,


I sent a patch to p5p to make 5.8.7 build ok, and its not currently commited, because of code freeze.

With my changes, when I try to run the test suite (after copying the
files 1 at a time, unfortunately), I run out of memory before a single
test runs. Even in Platform Builder's CE emulator with 256 megabytes
allocated to the emulator.

9 times out of 10, the stack trace when it prints the error message is:

PERL58!emergency_sbrk() line 1234
PERL58!getpages() line 1704 + 8 bytes
PERL58!morecore() line 1951 + 16 bytes
PERL58!Perl_malloc() line 1466
PERL58!Perl_realloc() line 2295 + 8 bytes
PERL58!Perl_push_scope() line 134 + 28 bytes
PERL58!Perl_pp_enter() line 1702
PERL58!Perl_runops_standard() line 37 + 24 bytes
PERL58!S_run_body() line 2003
PERL58!perl_run() line 1923
PERL58!RunPerl() line 231 + 8 bytes
PERL!main() line 36 + 28 bytes

I have no idea how to even start troubleshooting this problem. Any
suggestions?

hi all,

Well, the best solution I found to the problem I was having earlier
was to copy C:\perl\lib\auto to perl-5.8.7\lib\auto. Apparently if
you build miniperl, that process fills perl-5.8.7\lib\auto.

After solving that problem, I got "s perl hello.pl" to print 'Hello,
World!', so I've gotten things working at least somewhat. Is there a
way to copy files into Platform Builder's emulator conveniently? I
want to run Perl's test suite, and that's way too many files to copy 1
at a time.


John
(who will share his changes once he runs the test suite)