This question is fairly off-topic for this list. It would help debugging
your problem if you give the exact method with which you ran Configure.
Regards,
Christian
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dhananjay Naniwadekar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2000 3:16 PM
> To: modperl
> Subject: perl installation on hpux : cc vs gcc
>
>
>
> I am trying to install perl-5.6.0 on hpux.
> It is choosing cc as the c compiler. I don't know why. If I install an
> earlier version
> of perl, it chooses gcc.
> I have an env-variable named CC which is set to gcc .
> My $PATH first lists the dir which contains "gcc" executable,
> and then the
> dir which contains "cc" executable. e.g; my gcc is in
> /opt/gcc/bin ; my cc
> is in /usr/bin,
> my $PATH is "........:/opt/gcc/bin:....:/usr/bin:......."
>
> Any idea why perl installation chooses cc as the c compiler?
>
> Another Q is if I override the default of cc and set gcc as compiler
> instead, I am getting errors.
> My setting are :
> cc flags : -D_HPUX_SOURCE -Aa -fno-strict-aliasing
> -I/usr/local/include
> ld flags : -Wl,+vnocompatwarnings -L/usr/local/lib
>
> The error I get is :
> *Initialization*:1: missing token-sequence in `#assert'
> I can't compile the test program.
> (The supplied flags or libraries might be incorrect.)
>
> You have a BIG problem. Shall I abort Configure [y]
>
> Please advise.
>
> - nani (Dhananjay Naniwadekar)
>
>
>
