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Re: [ID 20000421.006] Perl 5.6.0 on AIX 4.2.1 install problem

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Michael Doran
Date:
April 22, 2000 07:57
Subject:
Re: [ID 20000421.006] Perl 5.6.0 on AIX 4.2.1 install problem
Message ID:
956415228.webexpressdV2.2.0@library.uta.edu
Hi Steven,

>It almost looks as if you built with use64bitall.  Can you check your
>configure.sh file and see?

From my config.sh file: "use64bitall='undef'"

>Can you E-Mail me a copy of your configure.sh?

See attachment (or http://rocky.uta.edu/doran/perl/configsh.txt).

-- Michael

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>Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 23:11:46 -0400 (EDT)
>From: "Steven N. Hirsch" <shirsch@adelphia.net>
..
>On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, Michael Doran wrote:
>
>> I am having problems installing Perl 5.6.0 on AIX 4.2.1 using AIX's 
>> XL C Compiler 1.03.044.  Everything seems to work OK up until  
>> "make test."
>> 
>> 45 out of the 188 tests failed during make test.
>> 
>> 42 of the failed tests had a common denominator in their error 
>> messages: "Can't load `whatever.so` for module `whatever:` 
>> readExports: bad magic at ../lib/XSLoader.pm line 73."
>> 
>> 2 of the failed tests had similar error messages but referenced 
>> DynaLoader.pm rather than XSLoader.pm.
>> 
>
>Michael,
>
>It almost looks as if you built with use64bitall.  Can you check your
>configure.sh file and see?  That message will be emitted when the
>dynaloader code thinks the *.so file is for a different architecture.
>
>Very strange.  Also, I think you have an extremely back-level 
compiler,
>though I'm not sure that is causing the problem.
>
>Can you E-Mail me a copy of your configure.sh?
>
>Steve
>
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