Re: make-3.81rc1 results

[Martin Sebor]

Paul D. Smith wrote:
> %% Martin Sebor <address@hidden> writes:
>
>   ms> ...are attached. I don't know enough to say how serious the
>   ms> failures are but I'm hoping you'll find the results helpful.
>
> Thanks Martin.  Good stuff.
>
> I'll have to think about the best way to handle systems like AIX which
> use non-traditional error messages for things like non-existent
> directories, etc.
>
>   ms>              Running tests for GNU make on IRIX64 ozone 6.5 IP27
>
>   ms> features/targetvars ..................................... 
>   ms> *** Test died (features/targetvars): Not enough arguments for mkdir at scripts/features/targetvars line 275, near "'t1')"
>
> Hm.  This is strange.  What version of Perl are you using here?
> According to the Perl docs I have the second argument to mkdir() is
> optional.  Maybe that wasn't true for older versions of Perl?

Here's the version output. Seems pretty ancient:

$ perl -v

This is perl, version 5.004_04 built for irix-n32

Copyright 1987-1997, Larry Wall

Perl may be copied only under the terms of either the Artistic License 
or the
GNU General Public License, which may be found in the Perl 5.0 source kit.

Martin