Re: [MacPerl] Working perl 5 tool?

[Bill Salivar <wsalivar@mv.us.adobe.com>]

I believe the installation README indicates that the PPC version of
MPW Perl should not be installed if you are using MPW 3.3.1.  You
should use the 68K version instead.

Vicki Brown wrote:
> 
> >From Guy Greenbaum and John W. Baxter:
> 
> >>Is there a working Mac_Perl_506r1m MPW tool expected anytime soon?  Last time
> >>I checked, Mac_Perl_506r1m_tool crashes on any invocation from MPW.
> >>Thanks,
> >
> >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.  I didn't do any exhaustive testing, just ran the TEST program in
> t:, but no crashing.
> 
> The culprit seems to be MPW 3.3.1 (at least for me)