@Procura alias Merijn (or others); still gcc-3.1 problems

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

Ralph, yes, holiday to France (Annecy near Geneve) for two weeks. Forum was quit as I browsed back.

Perl-5.8.0 is planned this Thursday if no disasters happen. Will make it available probably on Steven's machine.

Good to hear you're going strong!

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

Photo was taken at O'Reilly's OSCON (TPC) Monteray

[Ralph Grothe]

Merijn,

further assistance needed with the perl-build.

I downloaded and untared the Perl 5.8.0 that you promoted in this thread:

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0xcb1036e69499d611abdb0090277a778c,00.html

Unfortunately, my Configure run crashes.
Please, have a look at attched output from script.


Regards
Ralph

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

--8<---
s a good thing. DO NOT give a wrong version or a wrong OS.

Which of these apply, if any? [hpux]
Archname is PA-RISC2.0
(Bundled) cc: warning 480: The -A option is available only with the C/ANSI C product; ignored.

Configure uses the operating system name and version to set some defaults.
The default value is probably right if the name rings a bell. Otherwise,
since spelling matters for me, either accept the default or answer "none"
to leave it blank.
-->8---

As you can see it found the braindead bundled C compiler to use.

Configure -Dcc=gcc ...

should help

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

Is https://www.beepz.com/personal/merijn still inaccessible for you? wasn't Steven able to help you there? Was it a firewall issue or was it your Virus Gateway^W^WIE?

I've already put 5.8.0 Oracle-prepared gcc-3.1 built there the day 5.8.0 was released.

[Ralph Grothe]

Marijn,

it still crashes.
I downloaded your 32bit compilation of gcc-3.1 from your beepz site.
Then I downloaded the gcc 3.1.1 sources to build gcc with your gcc.
I adapted the sample scriplet to build gcc from your beepz site (so that my paths fit).
Therby I realized I hadn't imake installed (is this necessary?), and I couldn't find any langtools (you include them in your path).
Nevertheless I ran your script.
All worked fine for some ten minutes while it was constructing the Makefile.
Then when make executed it finally exited with a syntax error in line 1260 :-(

I then kicked building my own gcc, and tried to use yours for making Perl 5.8.0-RC3 from sources.
I prepended /usr/local/pa20-32/bin to my PATH to invoke your gcc.
And then Configure clashed again with
"YOU HAVE A BIG PROBLEM!"

This all sucks ...
:-((

[Phil Lobbes]

This response may be a bit late but...

It seems at least with gcc 3.2 the problem is a '-Ae' switch that gets passed causing the missing '(' after predicate error.

If you can get rid of that compile time argument things may compile for you.

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

FWIW Ralph was already rockin'
We helped him off-list