(the exact pattern of failures depending on the GCC release and
optimization flags).
-gcc 3.2.1 is known to work okay with Perl 5.8.0. However, when
-optimizing the toke.c gcc likes to have a lot of memory, 256 megabytes
-seems to be enough. The default setting of the process data section
-in Tru64 should be one gigabyte, but some sites/setups might have
-lowered that. The configuration process of Perl checks for too low
-process limits, and lowers the optimization for the toke.c if
-necessary, and also gives advice on how to raise the process limits.
+Both the native cc and gcc seem to consume lots of memory when
+building Perl. toke.c is a known trouble spot when optimizing:
+256 megabytes of data section seems to be enough. Another known
+trouble spot is the mktables script which builds the Unicode support
+tables. The default setting of the process data section in Tru64
+should be one gigabyte, but some sites/setups might have lowered that.
+The configuration process of Perl checks for too low process limits,
+and lowers the optimization for the toke.c if necessary, and also
+gives advice on how to raise the process limits
+(for example: C<ulimit -d 262144>)
Also, Configure might abort with
- Build a threading Perl? [n]
- Configure[2437]: Syntax error at line 1 : 'config.sh' is not expected.
+ Build a threading Perl? [n]
+ Configure[2437]: Syntax error at line 1 : 'config.sh' is not expected.
This indicates that Configure is being run with a broken Korn shell
(even though you think you are using a Bourne shell by using
When compiling Perl in Tru64 you may (depending on the compiler
release) see two warnings like this
- cc: Warning: numeric.c, line 104: In this statement, floating-point overflow occurs in evaluating the expression "1.8e308". (floatoverfl)
- return HUGE_VAL;
- -----------^
+ cc: Warning: numeric.c, line 104: In this statement, floating-point
+ overflow occurs in evaluating the expression "1.8e308". (floatoverfl)
+ return HUGE_VAL;
+ -----------^
and when compiling the POSIX extension
- cc: Warning: const-c.inc, line 2007: In this statement, floating-point overflow occurs in evaluating the expression "1.8e308". (floatoverfl)
- return HUGE_VAL;
- -------------------^
+ cc: Warning: const-c.inc, line 2007: In this statement, floating-point
+ overflow occurs in evaluating the expression "1.8e308". (floatoverfl)
+ return HUGE_VAL;
+ -------------------^
The exact line numbers may vary between Perl releases. The warnings
are benign and can be ignored: in later C compiler releases the warnings
=head1 Testing Perl on Tru64
-During "make test" the C<comp/cpp> will be skipped because on Tru64 it
+During "make test" the C<comp>/C<cpp> will be skipped because on Tru64 it
cannot be tested before Perl has been installed. The test refers to
the use of the C<-P> option of Perl.
Tru64 4.0D to at least 4.0F: the sockatmark() system call was
added in Tru64 4.0F, and the IO extension refers that symbol.
+=head1 read_cur_obj_info: bad file magic number
+
+You may be mixing the Tru64 cc/ar/ld with the GNU gcc/ar/ld.
+That may work, but sometimes it doesn't (your gcc or GNU utils
+may have been compiled for an incompatible OS release).
+
+Try 'which ld' and 'which ld' (or try 'ar --version' and 'ld --version',
+which work only for the GNU tools, and will announce themselves to be such),
+and adjust your PATH so that you are consistently using either
+the native tools or the GNU tools. After fixing your PATH, you should
+do 'make distclean' and start all the way from running the Configure
+since you may have quite a confused situation.
+
=head1 AUTHOR
Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
https://perl5.git.perl.org / perl5.git / blobdiff