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Test fails on os390 (EBCDIC platform) #274

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So, I do have access to a z/os os390 in native ebcdic which comes with some additional drawbacks:

  • only basic POSIX sh, no bash (I failed building bash-4.4.18)
  • grep does not support -r or -w (I failed to build grep-3.3)
  • tcsh-6.08.02 (1998) is the recommended shell (tcsh-6.21.00 builds but crashes)
  • no rsync (I failed building rsync-3.1.3)
  • no compatible tar
  • no updatedb/locate (I failed building mlocate-0.26)
  • scattered disk space. df outpus is weird (I failed building di-4.47.1)
  • perl Makefile.PL hangs when creating a Makefile. Just Ctrl-C it and there is a fair chance the already created Makefile is correct (I failed to build make-4.2.1)
  • no gcc (though I don't think it is a drawback as is)
  • no gdb (because no gcc). dbx is a world on its own
  • untar an archive, and you have a good chance that the extracted files cannot be altered or even removed by you. Same for cp -p or scp -p

I managed to build a threaded dynaloading enabled bleadperl (5.31.5) that actually works, so to overcome the deficiencies of the available grep command, I really miss -w and -r, I wanted to install ack, but alas

I have attached the output of the make run.
test.out.gz

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