Help building 5.8 on Solaris

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Re: Help building 5.8 on Solaris by sunadmn (Curate) on Nov 04, 2003 at 18:09 UTC
This is pretty easy as I had the same issue on my sun boxen, when you attempt to build perl it will look for a C compiler and often fails without having GCC installed. There seems to be some sort of bug in solaris 8 on the sparc platform (64 bit Full OEM install), I have also ran across this in 9. What system are you building on SunOS or Sun4u? Also on a side note go out to cpan and grab perl again and check the MD5 checksum. I had another issue like this and it was a bad binary get of perl.	[reply]
Re: Help building 5.8 on Solaris by ptkdb (Monk) on Nov 04, 2003 at 18:18 UTC
Alot more background is needed here. What configuration settings did you apply here? You say 'unless I use gcc', but does that imply that if you use, presumably, Sun's native compiler, or some other vendors compiler you get the error? The error is 'Illegal Instruction' which is sort of a catastrophic error in a build. I presume that this non-gcc compiler was in use? What are you using for CFLAGS? Does your compiler have all of its patches up to date? If you haven't checked for patches since installing it, do so NOW, before you try again. <gripe> Does anyone find that some people when asking for help have the annoying habit of giving the absolute minimum ammount of information that they can get away with?</gripe done=fornow>	[reply]
Re: Help building 5.8 on Solaris by Anonymous Monk on Nov 05, 2003 at 14:26 UTC
I found the same problem when I tried to build Perl 5.8.1 with gcc-3.3.2 (full 64 bit binary). Putting the core into gdb it shows the break whithin the first 3 steps My setup was: Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 8 subversion 1) configuratio +n: Platform: osname=solaris, osvers=2.8, archname=sun4-solaris-64 uname='sunos daddel 5.8 generic_108528-16 sun4u sparc sunw,ultra-8 +0 ' config_args='-Dcc=gcc -m64 -Dprefix=/test/tools/sparcv9/perl -des' hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=undef usemultipl +icity=undef useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef use64bitint=define use64bitall=define uselongdouble=undef usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef Compiler: cc='gcc -m64', ccflags ='-fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include + -mcpu=v9 -m64 -Wa,-xarch=v9 -D_LAR GEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64', optimize='-O', cppflags='-fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include' ccversion='', gccversion='3.3.2', gccosandvers='solaris2' intsize=4, longsize=8, ptrsize=8, doublesize=8, byteorder=87654321 d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=1 +6 ivtype='long', ivsize=8, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', + lseeksize=8 alignbytes=8, prototype=define Linker and Libraries: ld='gcc -m64', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib ' libpth=/usr/local/lib /usr/lib /usr/ccs/lib libs=-lsocket -lnsl -ldl -lm -lc perllibs=-lsocket -lnsl -ldl -lm -lc libc=/usr/lib/sparcv9/libc.so, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=li +bperl.a gnulibc_version='' Dynamic Linking: dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' -z ign +ore -z lazyload -z combreloc' cccdlflags='-fPIC', lddlflags=' -G -z ignore -z lazyload -z combr +eloc -L/usr/local/lib' [download] I altert a lot during several compiles (other Libpathes an options) -- no relief at all But exactly the same setup works with Perl-5.8.0; no illegal instruction during test! Another hint: The miniperl of 5.8.1 works, the final perl not and it was also impossible to build a shared library. In that try even the miniperl died by SIGSEGV. --------------------- Then I tried 5.8.1 with SUN's Compiler and that works fine, Here my setup that works: Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 8 subversion 1) configuration: Platform: osname=solaris, osvers=2.8, archname=sun4-solaris-64-ld uname='sunos daddel2 5.8 generic_108528-14 sun4u sparc sunw,ultra- +5_10 ' config_args='-Dcc=cc -xarch=v9 -Doptimize=-xO4 -Duse64bitall -Duse +morebits -Dprefix=/software/tools/sparcv9/perl -des ' hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=undef usemultipl +icity=undef useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef use64bitint=define use64bitall=define uselongdouble=define usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef Compiler: cc='cc -xarch=v9', ccflags ='-xarch=v9 -I/usr/local/include -D_LAR +GEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64', optimize='-xO4', cppflags='-xarch=v9 -I/usr/local/include' ccversion='Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 C 5.3 Patch 111679-05 2002/02/0 +7', gccversion='', gccosandvers='' intsize=4, longsize=8, ptrsize=8, doublesize=8, byteorder=87654321 d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=1 +6 ivtype='long', ivsize=8, nvtype='long double', nvsize=16, Off_t='o +ff_t', lseeksize=8 alignbytes=16, prototype=define Linker and Libraries: ld='cc -xarch=v9', ldflags =' -xarch=v9 -L/usr/lib/sparcv9 -L/usr/ +ccs/lib/sparcv9 -L/opt/SUNWspro/WS6U2/lib/v9 -L/usr /local/lib ' libpth=/usr/lib/sparcv9 /usr/ccs/lib/sparcv9 /opt/SUNWspro/WS6U2/l +ib/v9 /usr/local/lib /usr/lib /usr/ccs/lib libs=-lsocket -lnsl -ldl -lm -lc -lsunmath perllibs=-lsocket -lnsl -ldl -lm -lc -lsunmath libc=/usr/lib/sparcv9/libc.so, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=li +bperl.a gnulibc_version='' Dynamic Linking: dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' -z ign +ore -z lazyload -z combreloc' cccdlflags='-KPIC', lddlflags=' -G -xarch=v9 -G -z ignore -z lazy +load -z combreloc -L/usr/lib/sparcv9 -L/usr/ccs/lib /sparcv9 -L/opt/SUNWspro/WS6U2/lib/v9 -L/usr/local/lib' [download] I've no idea, what the reason is but I suspect an problem with gcc and perl 5.8.1, because even a 32 bit compiled version of perl by using gcc didn't do. My comment: Try gcc and 5.8.0 or take SUN's Compiler and 5.8.1 We might have a bug in 5.8.1 Regards Knut	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Re: Help building 5.8 on Solaris by mhearse (Chaplain) on Nov 05, 2003 at 16:27 UTC
I used 5.8.0 like you suggested. Worked great on my Solaris 9 box. I never tried Sun's compiler, as I think they want money for that. Thanks again.	[reply]


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