My guess is that the PPC version of OS X probably still has the real GCC as its compiler rather than clang as on more modern systems.
You could try looking for the config line which contains the definiton of clang for OS X/darwin and changing it to gcc or if you are using rakudobrew maybe something like rakudobrew build moar --configure-opts=--moar-option=--cc=gcc might work? On 18 January 2016 at 17:26, James E Keenan <perl6-bugs-follo...@perl.org> wrote: > # New Ticket Created by James E Keenan > # Please include the string: [perl #127308] > # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. > # <URL: https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127308 > > > > Today I tried for the first time to build Perl 6 from source -- specifically > Rakudo Star 2015.11 -- on my older Darwin/PPC. (I first tried to do so with > 'rakudobrew', but that utility apparently has dependencies on more recent > versions of 'git' than I can install on this machine.) Configuration failed > -- but at a point so early in the process that I was surprised. > > Here is what I called and got: > > ########## > [rakudo] 545 $ cd rakudo-star-2015.11 > [rakudo-star-2015.11] 546 $ perl Configure.pl --backend=moar --gen-moar > ATTENTION: no --prefix supplied, building and installing to > /Users/jimk/rakudo/rakudo-star-2015.11/install > > Configuring and building MoarVM ... > perl Configure.pl --optimize > --prefix=/Users/jimk/rakudo/rakudo-star-2015.11/install --make-install > Welcome to MoarVM! > > Configuring native build environment ................... OK > probing whether your compiler thinks that it is gcc Can't compile simple > gcc probe, so something is badly wrong at build/probe.pm line 92. > Command failed (status 32512): perl Configure.pl --optimize > --prefix=/Users/jimk/rakudo/rakudo-star-2015.11/install --make-install > ########## > > Well, my compiler is definitely gcc. It's still capable of building > perl-5.22.1 from source. I examined ./MoarVM/build/probe.pm and just above > that point I saw C code to detect a C compiler. I extracted it, compiled it > and ran it. > > ########## > > $ cat try.c > #include <stdlib.h> > > int main(int argc, char **argv) { > #ifdef __GNUC__ > return EXIT_SUCCESS; > #else > return EXIT_FAILURE; > #endif > } > > > $ gcc -o try try.c > > $ perl -e '$rv = system(qq{./try}); print "<$rv>\n";' > <0> > ########## > > So the C probe works by itself, but the program in which it is embedded > fails. Any ideas? > > Thank you very much. > Jim Keenan > -- > James E Keenan (jkee...@cpan.org) > Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 22 subversion 1) configuration: > > Platform: > osname=darwin, osvers=8.11.0, archname=darwin-2level > uname='darwin macintosh-9.local 8.11.0 darwin kernel version 8.11.0: wed > oct 10 18:26:00 pdt 2007; root:xnu-792.24.17~1release_ppc power macintosh > powerpc ' > config_args='-des' > hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define > useithreads=undef, usemultiplicity=undef > use64bitint=undef, use64bitall=undef, uselongdouble=undef > usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef > Compiler: > cc='cc', ccflags ='-fno-common -DPERL_DARWIN -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe > -I/usr/local/include -I/opt/local/include -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2', > optimize='-O3', > cppflags='-fno-common -DPERL_DARWIN -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe > -I/usr/local/include -I/opt/local/include' > ccversion='', gccversion='4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5250)', > gccosandvers='' > intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=4321, > doublekind=4 > d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=16, > longdblkind=6 > ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', > lseeksize=8 > alignbytes=8, prototype=define > Linker and Libraries: > ld='env MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.3 cc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib > -L/opt/local/lib' > libpth=/usr/local/lib /usr/lib /opt/local/lib > libs=-lpthread -ldbm -ldl -lm -lc > perllibs=-lpthread -ldl -lm -lc > libc=, so=dylib, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a > gnulibc_version='' > Dynamic Linking: > dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=bundle, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' ' > cccdlflags=' ', lddlflags=' -bundle -undefined dynamic_lookup > -L/usr/local/lib -L/opt/local/lib' > > > Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): > Compile-time options: HAS_TIMES PERLIO_LAYERS PERL_DONT_CREATE_GVSV > PERL_HASH_FUNC_ONE_AT_A_TIME_HARD PERL_MALLOC_WRAP > PERL_NEW_COPY_ON_WRITE PERL_PRESERVE_IVUV > USE_LARGE_FILES USE_LOCALE USE_LOCALE_COLLATE > USE_LOCALE_CTYPE USE_LOCALE_NUMERIC USE_LOCALE_TIME > USE_PERLIO USE_PERL_ATOF > Built under darwin > Compiled at Dec 13 2015 21:51:07 > %ENV: > PERLBREW_BASHRC_VERSION="0.59" > PERLBREW_HOME="/Users/jimk/.perlbrew" > PERLBREW_ROOT="/Users/jimk/perl5/perlbrew" > PERL_WORKDIR="gitwork/perl" > @INC: > /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.22.1/darwin-2level > /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.22.1 > /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.22.1/darwin-2level > /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.22.1 > /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.20.1 > /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.20.0 > /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.18.0 > /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.16.0 > /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.14.2 > /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.14.0 > /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.12.0 > /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.1 > /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0 > /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6 > /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl > . > -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott <steve.myn...@gmail.com>
