I downloaded Craig Barry’s PERLBUILD584.ZIP file onto an HP Itanium at OpenVMS release 8.2 and am now trying to build Perl with ithread support.
I’ve never had the, um, “pleasure” of building Perl before and was quite hopeful that if I followed the commands that were described in the readme file, that it would just work. I contacted Craig to find out what had to be done to build with thread support, and adjusted the “@configure” command accordingly. A handful of C files compiled fine, then it failed on PP_SYS.C as shown:
CC /Include=[]/Standard=Relaxed_ANSI/Prefix=All/Obj=.obj/NoList/float=ieee/ieee=
denorm_results/Define=PERL_CORE PP_SYS.C
Sock_size_t bufsize;
....^
%CC-E-BADPARSEDECL, In this declaration, "undef" must specify a type.
at line number 1544 in file PERLKIT:[SOURCE]PP_SYS.C;1
bufsize = SvCUR(bufsv);
....^
%CC-E-UNDECLARED, In this statement, "bufsize" is not declared.
at line number 1662 in file PERLKIT:[SOURCE]PP_SYS.C;1
while ((childpid = wait4pid(-1, &argflags, 0)) == -1 &&
...............^
%CC-I-QUESTCOMPARE1, In this statement, the unsigned _expression_ "(childpid=Perl_
wait4pid(...))" is being compared with an equality operator to a constant whose
value is negative. This might not be what you intended.
at line number 4022 in file PERLKIT:[SOURCE]PP_SYS.C;1
while ((result = wait4pid(pid, &argflags, optype)) == -1 &&
...............^
%CC-I-QUESTCOMPARE1, In this statement, the unsigned _expression_ "(result=Perl_wa
it4pid(...))" is being compared with an equality operator to a constant whose va
lue is negative. This might not be what you intended.
at line number 4054 in file PERLKIT:[SOURCE]PP_SYS.C;1
I’m not a C programmer, but I was able to conclude that PP_SYS.C includes “perl.h”, which includes either “uconfig.h” or “config.h” depending on the PERL_MICRO ifdef test. “uconfig.h” defines “Sock_size_t” as an “int”, while “config.h” defines “Sock_size_t” as “undef”, so presumably it is “config.h” that is being included.
I’m not sure how to solve this. I see that uconfig.h and config.h are build by the configuration process. Is there something that I should have done differently during the configuration?
Thanks for any help you can provide.
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