On Mon 06 Jan 2003 16:12, Jarkko Hietaniemi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm going to have to disable my single AIX smoke since it just keeps > failing in Configure and I have no time to debug it now for a few > weeks at least. This is the very frustrating failure I get: > > Could not load program ./try: > Dependent module libc.a(shr.o) could not be loaded. > Could not load module libc.a(shr.o). > Error was: No such file or directory > Unable to configure perl in this configuration > > The "cool" thing? If I add the option "-x" to this exec...
Maybe Test::Smoke is the module that has yielded the most end-user frustration after all :) [ well, except for DBD::Oracle maybe, which mostly indicates that the pooor user /has to/ work with Oracle ] > ... > + echo (Feeding myself to /usr/bin/bsh to avoid AIX 4's /bin/sh.) > + exec /usr/bin/bsh ./Configure -Dusedevel -Duse64bitint -des > > to trace what's going on, the whole following Configure run *FREEZES* > AND *KILLS* the underlying shell, not in the same spot, but in some > random spot. (I'm thankful to be using the screen utility so that I > can always kill a hang up shell...) My interactive shell under which > I was running the Configure really seems to go bye-bye, according to ps. > All in all, too "cool" for me to debug now. (Smells like a broken /bin/bsh, > but I simply don't have the time to play with it now.) > > The final insult to the injury is that *with* threads Configure > finishes just fine, it's the non-threads, and use64bitint builds > that hang as described above. -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http://amsterdam.pm.org/) using perl-5.6.1, 5.8.0 & 633 on HP-UX 10.20 & 11.00, AIX 4.2, AIX 4.3, WinNT 4, Win2K pro & WinCE 2.11. Smoking perl CORE: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] send smoke reports to: [EMAIL PROTECTED], QA: http://qa.perl.org
