----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruce Dubbs" <bruce.du...@gmail.com> To: "LFS Developers Mailinglist" <lfs-dev@linuxfromscratch.org> Sent: Friday, April 16, 2010 1:05 AM Subject: perl-5.12.0
> Trying perl-5.12.0 with the current LFS Chapter 5 instructions, I get > the errors below. I tried with gcc-4.5.0 and then backed off to LFS-6.5 > and got exactly the same errors. > > I used the commands: > > cd perl-5.12.0 > sh Configure -des -Dprefix=/tools \ > -Dstatic_ext='Data/Dumper Fcntl IO POSIX' > make perl utilities ext/Errno/pm_to_blib > > The problem seems to be using the -Dstatic_ext='Data/Dumper Fcntl IO > POSIX' option. If I omit POSIX, the build completes. I don't recall > the background of that switch. Does anyone remember the issues here? > That's described on the lines after, no? -Dstatic_ext='Data/Dumper Fcntl IO POSIX' This tells Perl to build the minimum set of static extensions needed for installing and testing the Coreutils and Glibc packages in the next chapter. Gilles -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page