Re: validation problem

[John Heidemann <johnh@ISI.EDU>]

On Tue, 31 Mar 1998 14:12:22 EST, sjahn@cs.umd.edu wrote: 
>To those who can explain what went wrong:
>
>When I ran the 'validate' script, it gave me a lot of bad messages.
>FYI, I did not have any problem with 'install' script and I ran ns
>on Solaris2.5. 
>
>...
>
>*** ./test-all-tcp
>Tests: ecn timers timersA timers1 timers2 timers3 timers4 timers5 stats1
>Running test ecn
>ns: _o3 cleanup file5 ecn_(one_with_ecn,_one_without): 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.
>...

You're running set_flow_id with perl4, not perl5.

Configure should check for perl5,
and will hopefully someday update set_flow_id (and related scripts)
to run what it finds.

For now you should manually change the scripts in bin to invoke perl5.

   -John Heidemann