Perl compilation woes!

[Barry O Flanagan]

Hi all,

Having trouble compiling Perl 5.6.1 on 11.11 with gcc 3.0.1 (and DBI, but its the same problem). I keep getting an error in relation to /usr/lib/include/symbol.h as shown below. Anyone got any "pearls" of wisdom?!

Heres the error:
Checking to see on how many bits at a time your select() operates...
In file included from try.c:23:
/usr/include/sys/socket.h:439: parse error before "sendfile"
/usr/include/sys/socket.h:439: parse error before "bsize_t"
/usr/include/sys/socket.h:441: parse error before "sendpath"
/usr/include/sys/socket.h:441: parse error before "bsize_t"

[Andre Da Silva Dias]

Hi!

Does this error prevents you from compiling/linking perl?
Could you attach the complete listing of you compilation?

Andre

[Barry O Flanagan]

Hi Andre,

This is actually happening at configure time rather than compile time plus I'm getting the same problem when doing the compile for DBI. Any ideas?

[harry d brown jr]

Why are you compiling perl 5.6.1 for 11i? It comes on the application CD's.


live free or die
harry

[Barry O Flanagan]

Because we are trying to compile DBD-Oracle for PERL.
Any documentation we have come across suggests this is the only way to compile the ORACLE DBD for perl on HP-UX 11.XX

We are also getting the Error when trying to make DBI with no changes in its configuration.

This seems to be a compiler problem although I'm loath to conclude that there is a problem with the socket.h header file. This does not seem logical!

We have tried both gcc 3.0, 3.01 and the bundled non-ANSI compliant CC compilers and all produce the same error.

Regards,

Barry

[Andre Da Silva Dias]

Hi, sometime ago I had to do the attach instruction procedure for Perl+DBI+DBD Oracle.

Hope it helps.

Andre

[Barry O Flanagan]

Hi Andre,

That is pretty much out software setup but we are getting a parse error in socket.h

We have tried both GCC and the HP Ansi C compiler.

We get the following output when trying to do a make on DBI after a successful perl Makefile.PL


gcc -c -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L -D_HPUX_SOURCE -L/lib/pa1.1 -DUINT32_MAX_BROKEN -mpa-risc-1-1 -fPIC -fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/lo
cal/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -O -DVERSION=\"1.20\" -DXS_VERSION=\"1.20\" -fPIC -I/opt/perl/lib/5.6.1/PA-
RISC1.1-thread-multi/CORE -Wall -Wno-comment Perl.c

the Error produced is:

In file included from /opt/perl/lib/5.6.1/PA-RISC1.1-thread-multi/CORE/perl.h:713,
from DBIXS.h:19,
from Perl.xs:1:
/usr/include/sys/socket.h:439: parse error before "sendfile"
/usr/include/sys/socket.h:439: parse error before "bsize_t"
/usr/include/sys/socket.h:441: parse error before "sendpath"
/usr/include/sys/socket.h:441: parse error before "bsize_t"
/usr/include/sys/socket.h:456: parse error before "__sendfile64"
/usr/include/sys/socket.h:456: parse error before "bsize_t"
/usr/include/sys/socket.h:457: parse error before "__sendpath64"
/usr/include/sys/socket.h:457: parse error before "bsize_t"
/usr/include/sys/socket.h:459: parse error before "sendfile"
/usr/include/sys/socket.h: In function `sendfile':
/usr/include/sys/socket.h:459: parse error before "bsize_t"
/usr/include/sys/socket.h: At top level:
/usr/include/sys/socket.h:460: parse error before "sendpath"
/usr/include/sys/socket.h: In function `sendpath':
/usr/include/sys/socket.h:460: parse error before "bsize_t"
make: *** [Perl.o] Error 1

At this stage, we have tried several versions of GCC and the HP Ansi C Compiler.

When building Perl itself, we encounter similar parse errors in other standard C header files such as time.h

The following is a sample from trying to build Perl after a successful Configure:


# pwd
/tmp/Compilers/perl-5.6.1
# make
`sh cflags libperl.a miniperlmain.o` miniperlmain.c
CCCMD = /opt/gcc/bin/gcc -DPERL_CORE -c -fpic -O
In file included from perl.h:713,
from miniperlmain.c:12:
/usr/include/sys/socket.h:439: parse error before "sendfile"
/usr/include/sys/socket.h:439: parse error before "bsize_t"
/usr/include/sys/socket.h:441: parse error before "sendpath"
/usr/include/sys/socket.h:441: parse error before "bsize_t"
make: *** [miniperlmain.o] Error 1

Regards,
Barry

[Andre Da Silva Dias]

Do you have the lastest libc and libc header patches?

[Barry O Flanagan]

Hi Andre,

We finally got it sorted by installing the HP Ansi C Compiler. Everything compiled relatively smoothly after that.

Thanks again for all the help, much appreciated.

Regards,

Barry