problems compiling perl 5.8.5 w/ fbsd 5.2.1

[Peter Wemm]

On Tuesday 07 December 2004 03:31 pm, Mike Hunter wrote:
> On Dec 07, "Mike Jakubik" wrote:
> > Mike Hunter said:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I'm new to amd64 as of this nice new dual opteron box I've just
> > > received...I may be seeing a lot of you guys in the coming weeks
> > > :)
> >
> > Any reason why you installed 5.2.1 (Its an old pre-release
> > version)? If this is a fresh box, then i highly recommend you
> > install 5.3 instead. Perl 5.8.5 is packaged with 5.3 too.
>
> Actually I did 5.2.1 because that was the install media I had handy
> :) I'm building a RELENG_5 world/kernel as we speak...I'll be back if
> it doesn't work out :)

There was some distinct brokenness with brk() and family in 5.2 for 
amd64, FYI.  The known problems were fixed a while ago.
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