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Today I tried for the first time to build Perl 6 from source -- specifically
Rakudo Star 2015.11 -- on my older Darwin/PPC. (I first tried to do so with
'rakudobrew', but that utility apparently has dependencies on more recent
versions of 'git' than I can install on this machine.) Configuration failed --
but at a point so early in the process that I was surprised.
Here is what I called and got:
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[rakudo] 545 $ cd rakudo-star-2015.11
[rakudo-star-2015.11] 546 $ perl Configure.pl --backend=moar --gen-moar
ATTENTION: no --prefix supplied, building and installing to
/Users/jimk/rakudo/rakudo-star-2015.11/install
Configuring and building MoarVM ...
perl Configure.pl --optimize
--prefix=/Users/jimk/rakudo/rakudo-star-2015.11/install --make-install
Welcome to MoarVM!
Configuring native build environment ................... OK
probing whether your compiler thinks that it is gcc Can't compile simple
gcc probe, so something is badly wrong at build/probe.pm line 92.
Command failed (status 32512): perl Configure.pl --optimize
--prefix=/Users/jimk/rakudo/rakudo-star-2015.11/install --make-install
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Well, my compiler is definitely gcc. It's still capable of building
perl-5.22.1 from source. I examined ./MoarVM/build/probe.pm and just above
that point I saw C code to detect a C compiler. I extracted it, compiled it
and ran it.
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$ cat try.c
#include <stdlib.h>
int main(int argc, char **argv) {
#ifdef __GNUC__
return EXIT_SUCCESS;
#else
return EXIT_FAILURE;
#endif
}
$ gcc -o try try.c
$ perl -e '$rv = system(qq{./try}); print "<$rv>\n";'
<0>
##########
So the C probe works by itself, but the program in which it is embedded fails.
Any ideas?
Thank you very much.
Jim Keenan
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James E Keenan (jkee...@cpan.org)Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 22 subversion 1) configuration:
Platform:
osname=darwin, osvers=8.11.0, archname=darwin-2level
uname='darwin macintosh-9.local 8.11.0 darwin kernel version 8.11.0: wed
oct 10 18:26:00 pdt 2007; root:xnu-792.24.17~1release_ppc power macintosh
powerpc '
config_args='-des'
hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
useithreads=undef, usemultiplicity=undef
use64bitint=undef, use64bitall=undef, uselongdouble=undef
usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
Compiler:
cc='cc', ccflags ='-fno-common -DPERL_DARWIN -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe
-I/usr/local/include -I/opt/local/include -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2',
optimize='-O3',
cppflags='-fno-common -DPERL_DARWIN -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe
-I/usr/local/include -I/opt/local/include'
ccversion='', gccversion='4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5250)',
gccosandvers=''
intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=4321, doublekind=4
d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=16,
longdblkind=6
ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t',
lseeksize=8
alignbytes=8, prototype=define
Linker and Libraries:
ld='env MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.3 cc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib
-L/opt/local/lib'
libpth=/usr/local/lib /usr/lib /opt/local/lib
libs=-lpthread -ldbm -ldl -lm -lc
perllibs=-lpthread -ldl -lm -lc
libc=, so=dylib, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
gnulibc_version=''
Dynamic Linking:
dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=bundle, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' '
cccdlflags=' ', lddlflags=' -bundle -undefined dynamic_lookup
-L/usr/local/lib -L/opt/local/lib'
Characteristics of this binary (from libperl):
Compile-time options: HAS_TIMES PERLIO_LAYERS PERL_DONT_CREATE_GVSV
PERL_HASH_FUNC_ONE_AT_A_TIME_HARD PERL_MALLOC_WRAP
PERL_NEW_COPY_ON_WRITE PERL_PRESERVE_IVUV
USE_LARGE_FILES USE_LOCALE USE_LOCALE_COLLATE
USE_LOCALE_CTYPE USE_LOCALE_NUMERIC USE_LOCALE_TIME
USE_PERLIO USE_PERL_ATOF
Built under darwin
Compiled at Dec 13 2015 21:51:07
%ENV:
PERLBREW_BASHRC_VERSION="0.59"
PERLBREW_HOME="/Users/jimk/.perlbrew"
PERLBREW_ROOT="/Users/jimk/perl5/perlbrew"
PERL_WORKDIR="gitwork/perl"
@INC:
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.22.1/darwin-2level
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.22.1
/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.22.1/darwin-2level
/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.22.1
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.20.1
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.20.0
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.18.0
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.16.0
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.14.2
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.14.0
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.12.0
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.1
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl
.
