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From:
Bradley M. Kuhn
Date:
October 25, 1999 23:55
Subject:
[ID 19991025.010] perl -MO=BACKEND file.pl appears to notfunction in 5.005_62
Message ID:
199910260654.CAA24510@atheist.ebb.org

This is a bug report for perl from bkuhn@ebb.org,
generated with the help of perlbug 1.27 running under perl 5.00562.


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My humblest apologies if I am reporting something that is already known.  I
didn't see anything go by on p5p about this, but I must admit that I do not
read some threads very closely.


I have been having a problem using Backends via the O module in 5.005_62.  I
have reconfigured the source and attempted to get everything working from
the build directory.  However, right after compiling, and making all tests
(successfully), the following occurs:

$ ./perl -I lib -MO=Bytecode t/base/cond.t > x
t/base/cond.t syntax OK
$ ls -l x
-rw-------   1 bkuhn    bkuhn           0 Oct 26 02:39 x
$ cat x
$ ./perl -I lib -MO=Terse t/base/cond.t 
t/base/cond.t syntax OK
$


On 5.005_61, configured the same way on the same system, both perl commands
produce copious output.

I discovered the problem while working on my own backend (which works fine
with 5.005_61, but fails in 5.005_62).

I have confirmed that the O module is calling compile() from the appropriate
Backend module; however, it appears that the anonymous sub returned by said
Backend module *never* gets called.

This simple example exhibits it:

place this file in foo/B/TestProblem.pm
###############################################################################
package B::TestProblem;

sub compile {
   print "Got here\n";

   return sub { print "Never gets here\n"; }
}
1;
###############################################################################


Then try:

$ perl5.00562 -Ifoo -MO=TestProblem some_script.pl
Got here
some_script.pl syntax OK
$ perl5.00561 -Ifoo -MO=TestProblem some_script.pl
Got here
some_script.pl syntax OK
Never gets here
$


I am sorry that I cannot give any more information on the specifics of the
problem, but I am still a bit unclear on the details of how the O module
interfaces back the B modules.

Thanks, and again, sorry if this is already a known bug.


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Site configuration information for perl 5.00562:

Configured by bkuhn at Tue Oct 26 02:09:53 EDT 1999.

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 5 subversion 62) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=linux, osvers=2.2.2, archname=i586-linux
    uname='linux atheist 2.2.2 #5 thu feb 25 00:45:59 est 1999 i586 unknown '
    config_args='-Dcc=/usr/local/bin/gcc -Dprefix=/usr/experimental -Doptimize=-DDEBUGGING -g -Dinstallprefix=/usr/experimental/Stow/perl-5.005_62 -Dldflags=-L/usr/lib -L/lib -L/usr/experimental/lib -L/usr/local/lib -Dlibperl=libperl.so -Duseshrplib=true -Dperladmin=bkuhn@ebb.org -Dcf_email=bkuhn@ebb.org -Ods'
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    usethreads=undef useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef
    use64bits=undef usemultiplicity=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='/usr/local/bin/gcc', optimize='-DDEBUGGING -g', gccversion=egcs-2.91.60 19981201 (egcs-1.1.1 release)
    cppflags='-Dbool=char -DHAS_BOOL -DDEBUGGING -fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include'
    ccflags ='-Dbool=char -DHAS_BOOL -DDEBUGGING -fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include'
    stdchar='char', d_stdstdio=define, usevfork=false
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
    alignbytes=4, usemymalloc=n, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='/usr/local/bin/gcc', ldflags ='-L/usr/lib -L/lib -L/usr/experimental/lib -L/usr/local/lib'
    libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib
    libs=-lnsl -lndbm -lgdbm -ldb -ldl -lm -lc -lposix -lcrypt
    libc=/lib/libc-2.0.7.so, so=so, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.so
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-rdynamic -Wl,-rpath,/usr/experimental/lib/perl5/5.00562/i586-linux/CORE'
    cccdlflags='-fpic', lddlflags='-shared -L/usr/lib -L/lib -L/usr/experimental/lib -L/usr/local/lib'

Locally applied patches:
    

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@INC for perl 5.00562:
    lib
    /usr/experimental/lib/perl5/5.00562/i586-linux
    /usr/experimental/lib/perl5/5.00562
    /usr/experimental/lib/site_perl/5.00562/i586-linux
    /usr/experimental/lib/site_perl
    .

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Environment for perl 5.00562:
    HOME=/home/bkuhn
    LANG (unset)
    LANGUAGE (unset)
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/bkuhn/Files/Graduate/University-of-Cincinnati/Thesis/Perl-Source/perl5.005_62
    LOGDIR (unset)
    PATH=/usr/experimental/bin:/home/bkuhn/bin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/TeX/bin:/usr/games:/usr/openwin/bin:.
    PERL_BADLANG (unset)
    SHELL=/bin/tcsh

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