On Saturday 03 November 2007 07:32:21 James Keenan via RT wrote:
> The more I look at this, the more I wonder whether the test failure in
> 111-auto_gcc-01.t (reported below) has anything to do with the presence
> or absence of gdbm on one's OS or whether one's Perl was build with gdbm
> or not.
> There's nothing in this error message that makes any reference to gdbm.
> I looked at the code in config/init/defaults.pm and
> lib/Parrot/Configure/Step.pm that is relevant here, and I find no
> reference to gdbm there. In particular, I can't figure out why the
> presence of gdbm when your Perl 5 was built should cause a failure in a
> test for gcc.
>
> Is it possible that this test failure could be due to causes that have
> nothing whatsoever to do with gdbm?
I bet that Cosimo's test.ldo file says "couldn't link with -lgdbm" or
something similar. I see the same failure; here's what's in my test.ldo:
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgdbm
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
For whatever reason, this test file is trying to link against libgdbm, and
that bird just isn't going to fly.
-- c
