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On Sunday, August 31, 2003, at 03:28 PM, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote: > Jos Boumans wrote: >> This is a vanilla FreeBSD 5.1 install, and i tried to install 5.8.0 on >> it, but got the following error: > > I'm guessing that your perl is configured with usemymalloc > (verify in config.sh to be sure) and that -Dusemymalloc=n would cure > it. i'm afraid not: [kane@serf ~/perl-5.8.0]$ grep malloc config.sh d_mymalloc='undef' i_malloc='define' mallocobj='' mallocsrc='' malloctype='char *' usemymalloc='n' this was configured with a './Configure -Uprefix=/opt -des' since i modified some files, i threw away the perl dir and extracted freshly, and added the -Dusemymalloc=n explicilty, but predictably, the same error occurred. > The offending #defines are in ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/sdbm.h -- there's > probably > something missing here. yeah, i noticed that that was where the actual include was happning, so i commented out the 'include stdlib.h', but the same error occurred. > Any other failures ? not up until that point... FYI, i tried to build perl5.8.0 on my other freebsd system (which is 5.0), and exactly the same error occurred: [kane@fs ~/perl-5.8.0]$ uname -a FreeBSD fs.domaintje.com 5.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE #0: Thu Jan 16 22:16:53 GMT 2003 root@hollin.btc.adaptec.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 -- Jos Boumans "Never ask a man what computer he uses. If it's a Mac, he'll tell you. If it's not, why embarrass him?" - Tom Clancy CPANPLUS http://cpanplus.sf.netThread Previous | Thread Next