I have some experience using perl, but I'm having a hard time finding or
building a sane perl interpreter on my particular machine. For example,
perl -e "print 1.1" yields something like 1.108333333. This was true both
of the 5.8.0 that came with my Red Hat 8.0 distro, and the 5.8.2 that I
built from source using defaults. The two builds give different results for
the "print 1.1" test, but they are both wrong.
I imagine it's quite possible that something is deeply broken in Red Hat
8.0, and I'm investigating other more recent distros. In particular I
wonder if something about my gcc or my glibc is screwy. But if anyone has
encountered this problem, and has ideas on how I might work around it, I'd
greatly appreciate the help!
Here is the output of myconfig for the 5.8.2 that I built (which did compile
successfully):
Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 8 subversion 2) configuration:
Platform:
osname=linux, osvers=2.4.18-14, archname=i686-linux
uname='linux swami 2.4.18-14 #1 wed sep 4 13:35:50 edt 2002 i686 i686
i386 gnulinux '
config_args='-de'
hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=undef
usemultiplicity=undef
useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef
use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef
usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
Compiler:
cc='cc', ccflags
='-fno-strict-aliasing -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64',
optimize='-O3',
cppflags='-fno-strict-aliasing'
ccversion='', gccversion='3.2 20020903 (Red Hat Linux 8.0 3.2-7)',
gccosandvers=''
intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234
d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t',
lseeksize=8
alignbytes=4, prototype=define
Linker and Libraries:
ld='cc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib'
libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib
libs=-lnsl -ldb -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lc
perllibs=-lnsl -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lc
libc=/lib/libc-2.2.93.so, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
gnulibc_version='2.2.93'
Dynamic Linking:
dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-rdynamic'
cccdlflags='-fpic', lddlflags='-shared -L/usr/local/lib'
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