Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Neil Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > As of current CVS, PL/Perl doesn't seem to compile against Perl 5.8. > > Builds fine on HPUX 10.20 with Perl 5.8.0 and gcc 2.95.3.
It may also depend on the way Perl is configured. I've attached the output of 'perl -V' on my system (using Debian's default Perl packages). > > The thread suggests a trivial fix: adding -D_GNU_SOURCE to the CFLAGS > > for the affected files. I checked, and this gets PL/Perl to compile > > correctly. That doesn't seem like the right fix, though. > > In view of opposing comments like > http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2002-03/msg01452.html > I think we should stay out of this. Well, I'd read that thread as saying that "Apache breaks when compiled with -D_GNU_SOURCE", not claiming that there is something inherently wrong with defining _GNU_SOURCE as a fix for the Perl problem. > It is not our business to get random Perl code to compile on random > OS installations, and certainly not our business to interject random > symbol definitions that might well break whatever solution the Perl > guys themselves decide on. Well, I'm not happy with defining _GNU_SOURCE, but I don't agree that just saying "it's a Perl problem" is a good answer. That may well be the case, but it doesn't change the fact that a lot of people are running 5.8.0, and will probably continue to do so during the 7.3 lifecycle[1]. We work around braindamage on other systems -- strictely speaking, we could say "the snprintf() bug with 64-bit Solaris is a Sun libc problem", for example. Perhaps we can include a test for this in configure? (i.e. if --with-perl is specified, try compiling a simple XS file that exhibits the problem; if it fails, try it with -D_GNU_SOURCE). Cheers, Neil [1] Note that I'm assuming that PL/Perl is broken with 5.8.0 on systems other than mine, and another person's on IRC who reported the problem to begin with. Can other people confirm the problem? -- Neil Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> || PGP Key ID: DB3C29FC Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 8 subversion 0) configuration: Platform: osname=linux, osvers=2.4.19, archname=i386-linux-thread-multi uname='linux cyberhq 2.4.19 #1 smp sun aug 4 11:30:45 pdt 2002 i686 unknown unknown gnulinux ' config_args='-Dusethreads -Duselargefiles -Dccflags=-DDEBIAN -Dcccdlflags=-f PIC -Darchname=i386-linux -Dprefix=/usr -Dprivlib=/usr/share/perl/5.8.0 -Darchli b=/usr/lib/perl/5.8.0 -Dvendorprefix=/usr -Dvendorlib=/usr/share/perl5 -Dvendora rch=/usr/lib/perl5 -Dsiteprefix=/usr/local -Dsitelib=/usr/local/share/perl/5.8.0 -Dsitearch=/usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.0 -Dman1dir=/usr/share/man/man1 -Dman3dir=/u sr/share/man/man3 -Dman1ext=1 -Dman3ext=3perl -Dpager=/usr/bin/sensible-pager -U afs -Ud_csh -Uusesfio -Uusenm -Duseshrplib -Dlibperl=libperl.so.5.8.0 -Dd_dosuid -des' hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define usethreads=define use5005threads=undef useithreads=define usemultiplicity=de fine useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef Compiler: cc='cc', ccflags ='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DDEBIAN -fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64', optimize='-O3', cppflags='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DDEBIAN -fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/lo cal/include' ccversion='', gccversion='2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease)', gccosandvers ='' intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234 d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12 ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize =8 alignbytes=4, prototype=define Linker and Libraries: ld='cc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib' libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib libs=-lgdbm -ldb -ldl -lm -lpthread -lc -lcrypt perllibs=-ldl -lm -lpthread -lc -lcrypt libc=/lib/libc-2.2.5.so, so=so, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.so.5.8.0 gnulibc_version='2.2.5' Dynamic Linking: dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-rdynamic' cccdlflags='-fPIC', lddlflags='-shared -L/usr/local/lib' Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): Compile-time options: MULTIPLICITY USE_ITHREADS USE_LARGE_FILES PERL_IMPLICIT_ CONTEXT Built under linux Compiled at Sep 14 2002 17:36:21 @INC: /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.0 /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.8.0 /usr/share/perl/5.8.0 /usr/local/lib/site_perl ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
