Re: autom4te and perl 5.8.0

[Patrick Welche]

On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 11:53:24PM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
> Hallo Patrick,
> 
> Am Mittwoch, 19. Juni 2002 um 17:07 schriebst du:
> 
> > On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 10:28:23AM +0200, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:
> >> 
> >> To make sure that it's not the fault of Autoconf, can you try
> >> this reduced test case?
> >> 
> >> use IO::File;
> >> my $out = new IO::File;
> >> $out->open("/dev/null", O_CREAT | O_WRONLY | O_TRUNC, 0666);
> 
> > Thank you for the test case! Sure enough, it crashes with just the
> > above..
> 
> We move the whole thread to perl5-porters at perl.org now, if someone
> is interested, it seems perl 5.8.0 is crashing on this few lines on
> several platforms (confirmed for Cygwin & Tru64).

Good news that it is reported - I tried "perlbug", but when I checked the
next day, I found no mention of the report in the bug database... That was
under NetBSD/i386.

Thanks,

Patrick