Re: Validation errors

[John Heidemann <johnh@ISI.EDU>]

On Mon, 05 Oct 1998 10:48:32 +0200, "Philip F. Chimento" wrote: 
>Hello: 
>While running the validation tests for ns-2 (on a SUN 5/10 OS 5.5.1) 
>I am getting some problems with (it looks like) Perl parsing of 
>parameters. The following is typical of what happens. Does anyone have
>a clue about what is going wrong and how to fix it ? Thanks in advance. 
>Phil Chimento
>
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>../../ns test-suite-tcp.tcl timersA1 QUIET
>ns: _o3 cleanup file5 timersA1_(multiple_of_8_instead_of_4): syntax error in 
>file ../../bin/set_flow_id at line 48, next 2 tokens "use strict"
>syntax error in file ../../bin/set_flow_id at line 52, next 2 tokens "my("
>Spurious backslash ignored at ../../bin/set_flow_id line 53.
>syntax error in file ../../bin/set_flow_id at line 53, next 2 tokens "qw("
>syntax error in file ../../bin/set_flow_id at line 67, next 2 tokens "my("
>Execution of ../../bin/set_flow_id aborted due to compilation errors.
>Can't locate 5.00100000000000033 in @INC at ../../bin/getrc line 4.
>syntax error in file ../../bin/raw2xg at line 43, next 2 tokens "my("
>syntax error in file ../../bin/raw2xg at line 59, next 2 tokens 
>"translate_point("
>syntax error in file ../../bin/raw2xg at line 94, next 2 tokens 
>"translate_point("
>Execution of ../../bin/raw2xg aborted due to compilation errors.
>    while executing
>"exec ../../bin/set_flow_id -s all.tr |  ../../bin/getrc -s 2 -d 3 |  
>../../bin/raw2xg -s 0.01 -m 90 -t $file > temp.rands"
>    (procedure "_o3" line 3)
>    (TestSuite finish line 3)
>    invoked from within
>"$self finish $testname"
>    (procedure "_o3" line 11)
>    (TestSuite cleanup line 11)
>    invoked from within
>"_o3 cleanup file5 timersA1_(multiple_of_8_instead_of_4)"
>Test output differs from reference output
>Diagnose with: diff test-output-tcp/timersA1.test test-output-tcp/timersA1
>Differences due to floating-point formatting are not significant.
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>
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You're running perl4 and ns requires perl5.
(I thought this was detected by configure.)

   -John Heidemann