The following has cleared up most module problems for me-
Build Perl 5.6 like so:
Configure -Dbincompat5005 -Accflags=-DPERL_POLLUTE
And then for modules:
perl Makefile.PL POLLUTE=1
On Linux, IPC::ShareLite passes all tests using the above.
-=j
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul G. Weiss [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2000 4:18 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: IPC::ShareLite with 5.6
>
>
> I have been unsuccessful in building IPC::ShareLite,
> which is used by HTML::Template under 5.6. Two problems:
>
> (1) It won't build at all w/o adding
> #define PERL_POLLUTE
>
> before the
>
> #include "EXTERN.h"
> #include "perl.h"
> #include "XSUB.h"
>
> in ShareLite.xs.
>
> (2) After building it, test fails:
>
> 1..8
> ok 1
> ok 2
> ok 3
> Bad realloc() ignored at
> /usrl1/home/pweiss/perl-56/lib/site_perl/5.6.0/sun4-solari
s/IPC/ShareLite.pm
> line 111.
> Segmentation Fault (core dumped)
>
>
> This also occurs if I build the extension under 5.00503
> and run in under
> 5.6.
>
> Can anyone confirm this problem and suggest a workaround?
>
> -Paul
>
