Re: [MacPerl] Working perl 5 tool?

[Matthias Ulrich Neeracher <neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch>]

Vicki Brown <vlb@apple.com> writes:
>>From Guy Greenbaum and John W. Baxter:
>>>Is there a working Mac_Perl_506r1m MPW tool expected anytime soon?  Last tim
e
>>>I checked, Mac_Perl_506r1m_tool crashes on any invocation from MPW.
>>
>>506r1m tool works fine for me.  PPC version, on 8100/80, MPW shell 3.4
>
>I crashed with the PPC version 7100/80, MPW Shell 3.3.1.  
>I also crashed using the PPC version of 5.0.3r1m.
>I did not crash when I tried MacPerl 4.1.8.
>
>I can't do much about the computer (:-) but I can update MPW to 3.4.
>
>All 3 PPC versions (4.1.8, 5.0.31rm, and 5.0.6r1m) seem to work with MPW 
>3.4.

In fact, 5.0.6 crashed *68K only*. The reason MPW version makes a difference
is that 3.3 will only execute 68K while 3.4 is fat.

I had planned to fix this in 5.0.7, but that release is going to be delayed
a few days. Thus, I have put an interim version of the 68K MPW tool on

ftp://err.ethz.ch/pub/neeri/MacPerl/Mac_Perl_5061.sit.bin

Matthias

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