> [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Wed Nov 20 08:26:56 2002]:
>
> I am following the steps in the README.os390 file and I have applied
> the
> fix to makedepend.SH (provided by Peter Prymmer) with regard to the
> unwanted removal of the last #endif statement in perly.c as below:
>
> --- makedepend.SH.orig Mon Nov 29 18:05:08 1999
> +++ makedepend.SH Mon Nov 29 18:10:43 1999
> @@ -130,6 +130,9 @@
> -e 's|\\$||' \
> -e p \
> -e '}' ) >UU/$file.c
> + if [ "$osname" = os390 -a "$file" = perly.c ]; then
> + $echo '#endif' >>UU/$file.c
> + fi
> $cppstdin $finc -I. $cppflags $cppminus <UU/$file.c |
> $sed \
> -e '/^#.*<stdin>/d' \
> End of Patch.
>
> and having made this fix the Configure and the make depend steps
> complete
> cleanly with no warnings or errors.
This patch appears to have made it into makedepend.SH.
> However, when performing the actual make step I am encountering the
> following error when compiling perly.c
>
> ERROR CCN3276 ./perly.c:128 Syntax error: possible missing ')'?
>
> I decided to turn on the -V flag of the c89 compiler and this
> identified
> the error as follows:
>
> 125 |#define POSTINC 315
> | 48923
> 126 |#define POSTDEC 316
> | 48924
> 127 |#define ARROW 317
> | 48925
> 128 |extern int yychar, yyerrflag;
> | 48926
> 128 +extern int (my_perl->Iyychar), (my_perl->Iyyerrflag);
> + 48926
> ===========>
>
......................a..............................................................................
> *=ERROR===========> a - CCN3276 Syntax error: possible missing ')'?
> 129 |#if YYDEBUG
> | 48927
> 130 |yyTypedRules yyRules[] = {
> | 48928
> 131 | { "&00: %01 &00", 0},
> | 48929
> 132 | { "%01: %07 %12", 1},
> | 48930
>
> This appears to be a problem with the actual C code itself.
>
> I have tried compiling perl with exactly the same options but without
> enabling thread support and it compiles and installs with no problems.
Are you able to compile recent stable perls in os390 with thread support
enabled?
