topic Re: Need help getting Bit-Vector compiled in Operating System - HP-UX

Need help getting Bit-Vector compiled

Tim Goodman — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 16:29:14 GMT

I am running HP-UX 11.11 and I'm trying to compile the Bit-Vector 6.4 module for Perl. I have Perl v5.8.3. I do not have gcc installed. When I do make I get the following errors -

cp lib/Bit/Vector/Overload.pm blib/lib/Bit/Vector/Overload.pm
cp Vector.pm blib/lib/Bit/Vector.pm
cp Vector.pod blib/lib/Bit/Vector.pod
cp lib/Bit/Vector/String.pod blib/lib/Bit/Vector/String.pod
cp lib/Bit/Vector/Overload.pod blib/lib/Bit/Vector/Overload.pod
cp lib/Bit/Vector/String.pm blib/lib/Bit/Vector/String.pm
cc -c -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L -D_REENTRANT -Ae -D_HPUX_SOURCE -Wl,+vnocompatwarnings -DNO_HASH_SEED -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -fast +Onolimit +Opromote_indirect_calls +DAportable +DS2.0 -DVERSION=\"6.4\" -DXS_VERSION=\"6.4\" +Z "-I/opt/perl/lib/5.8.3/PA-RISC1.1-thread-multi/CORE" BitVector.c
(Bundled) cc: warning 480: The -A option is available only with the C/ANSI C product; ignored.
(Bundled) cc: warning 422: Unknown option "f" ignored.
(Bundled) cc: warning 480: The +Onolimit option is available only with the C/ANSI C product; ignored.
(Bundled) cc: warning 480: The +Opromote_indirect_calls option is available only with the C/ANSI C product; ignored.
(Bundled) cc: warning 480: The +Z option is available only with the C/ANSI C product; ignored.
(Bundled) cc: "ToolBox.h", line 40: warning 5: "signed" will become a keyword.
(Bundled) cc: "ToolBox.h", line 40: error 1000: Unexpected symbol: "char".
(Bundled) cc: "ToolBox.h", line 41: warning 5: "signed" will become a keyword.
(Bundled) cc: "ToolBox.h", line 41: error 1000: Unexpected symbol: "char".
(Bundled) cc: "ToolBox.h", line 42: warning 5: "signed" will become a keyword.
(Bundled) cc: "ToolBox.h", line 41: warning 525: Redeclaration of identifier "signed".
(Bundled) cc: "ToolBox.h", line 42: error 1000: Unexpected symbol: "short".
(Bundled) cc: "ToolBox.h", line 43: warning 5: "signed" will become a keyword.
(Bundled) cc: "ToolBox.h", line 43: error 1000: Unexpected symbol: "short".
(Bundled) cc: "ToolBox.h", line 44: warning 5: "signed" will become a keyword.
(Bundled) cc: "ToolBox.h", line 44: error 1000: Unexpected symbol: "int".
(Bundled) cc: "ToolBox.h", line 45: warning 5: "signed" will become a keyword.
(Bundled) cc: "ToolBox.h", line 45: error 1000: Unexpected symbol: "int".
(Bundled) cc: "ToolBox.h", line 46: warning 5: "signed" will become a keyword.
(Bundled) cc: "ToolBox.h", line 46: error 1000: Unexpected symbol: "long".
(Bundled) cc: "ToolBox.h", line 47: warning 5: "signed" will become a keyword.
(Bundled) cc: "ToolBox.h", line 47: error 1000: Unexpected symbol: "long".
(Bundled) cc: "ToolBox.h", line 71: error 1000: Unexpected symbol: "*".
(Bundled) cc: error 2017: Cannot recover from earlier errors, terminating.
*** Error exit code 1

Stop.

Any ideas on how to get this to work?

Re: Need help getting Bit-Vector compiled

Duncan Edmonstone — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 16:39:49 GMT

you really won't get anywhere using the bundled C compiler included with HP-UX - its only there for the kernel and a couple of other bits & pieces - you certainly can't build software like this with it.

Get gcc installed and try again:

http://www.hp.com/go/gcc

HTH

Duncan

Re: Need help getting Bit-Vector compiled

James R. Ferguson — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 16:48:03 GMT

Hi:

You lack the ANSI C compiler and have only the free, bundled, C compiler which isn't good for much.

Your best/easist option would be to fetch a version of Perl that has been compiled with the GNU C compiler. Adding modules that require compilation is effectively only done by using the compiler (either GNU C or HP ANSIC C) that was used to compile the core installation.

Too, the version of Perl that you have is rather old. You can get a current version, compiled with the GNU C compiler from Merijn's web. In this case, Merijn's distribution has already added 'Bit::Victor' for you!

In addition, if you like, Merijn as binary distributions of GNU C that you can download should you need the compiler at a later time.

See:

http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: Need help getting Bit-Vector compiled

Tim Goodman — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 17:23:40 GMT

I had seen Merijn's site but I wasn't sure about what to install from there.

Should I get "perl 5.8.9 + defined-or + DBI 1.607 + Tk 804.028_501 built with gcc-3.4.6" and "gcc 3.4.6 + binutils 2.16.1 + gdb-6.6" or can I get a newer version of gcc than what perl was compiled with?

Re: Need help getting Bit-Vector compiled

James R. Ferguson — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 17:38:54 GMT

Hi Tim:

Merijn discusses his choice of the GNU C version on his web site. You should be able to download a newer version than what he used to build Perl if you need the compiler in the first place to add modules that require compilation.

Perl 5.8.9 is stable and is a good choice. Perl 5.10 introduces some nice features.

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: Need help getting Bit-Vector compiled

Tim Goodman — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:49:19 GMT

Downloading the Perl from merijn's site and installing it allowed me to get my app working. Thanks for the help.