How about showing us the diff? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Varner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2003 11:49 PM Subject: [gentoo-user] Perl Guru's? Having isssues recompiling perl
> [Also sent to the gentoo-dev mailing list] > > Are there any perl guru's on this list? > > I having problems recompiling perl on my Gentoo box and I'm trying to > determine what the problem is and how to fix it. > > Basically, I decided to recompile the software on my box to use the -O2 > optimization flag instead of -O3. However, whenever I do an 'emerge > =dev-lang/perl-5.8.0-r12', the compiling process ends up crashing my system. > > I have narrowed it down to the 'make test' portion of the process and the > test that is crashing the box is lib/Config. When perl runs that test it > appears to go into an infinite loop allocating memory, eventually the box > runs out of swap space and the kernel starts killing off processes and I end > up having to reboot the box. As as test I temporarily created a 2 gig swap > file and the emerge still ran out of memory. I tried changing my cflags > back > to the original setiing and I still get the same results. > > By running the test manually from the /var/tmp/portage/perl*/work directory, > I have determined that the test doesn't like the Config.pm file that was > configured. If I copy over my existing Config.pm and run the test manually > it works, but if I use the one created during the configure and compile > process, I get the problem listed above. A diff of the two Config.pm files > doesn't show anything that jumps out at me. > > I have google'd high and low and I can't find anything with somebody having > a similar issue > > I'm hesitant to create a bug in bugzilla at this time as I don't have any > other information to determine problem. So if there is anyone that has any > pointers on where to start debugging further, I would highly appreciate it. > I can supply copies of the Config.pm files on request. This one is really > bugging me as there should be no reason for perl to compile successfully at > install and then fail to compile properly on the same box. > > Regards, > Paul > > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
