perl 5.8.5 on freebsd 4.10

[Chuck Swiger]

Ken Menzel wrote:
[ ... ]
> Looks like a bug in 4.10, but I am not expert especially on crypto!  I 
> just wanted to check this with the group as it may point to a larger 
> problem that this behaves differently on 4.10 from 4.9 and 5.3.

I can't reproduce the Perl test failure here:

3-sec# cd /usr/ports/lang/perl5.8
4-sec# make && make test
[ ... ]
t/pod/special_seqs........................ok
t/x2p/s2p.................................ok
All tests successful.
u=7.71094  s=3.0625  cu=437.68  cs=46.8281  scripts=826  tests=85559
741.59s real  449.26s user  51.72s system  67%
5-sec# uname -a
FreeBSD sec.pkix.net 4.10-STABLE FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE #4: Mon Aug 23 14:18:07 
EDT 2004     chuck at sec.pkix.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/NORMAL  i386

...so I'd guess it's something different with your system or environment.  Do 
you have an old version of OpenSSL floating around in /usr/local, maybe?

-- 
-Chuck