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# New Ticket Created by Petter Reinholdtsen
# Please include the string: [perl #22189]
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I ran into a compile error when trying to compile perl 5.8.0 on ia64
HP/UX 11.22. I got this error message when trying to compile
miniperlmain.c:
Error 172: "perlio.h", line 209 # Undeclared variable '__printf__'.
The problem was the following code:
__attribute__ ((__format__(__printf__, 1, 2)));
Tracking the problem further, I discovered the test for __attribute__
in Configure, where it is testing if the following construct is
compilable:
#include <stdio.h>
void croak (char* pat,...) __attribute__((format(printf,1,2),noreturn));
I also discovered that the result from this test isn't printed to
stdout, making it hard to find out what the result from this test was.
I belive the test in Configure should test for the same feature that
is used in the perl code, and rewrote 'format' to '__format__' and
'printf' to '__printf__' to match perlio.h. I also printed the result
of the test to stdout, making it easy see that this test now fails as
it should on HP/UX.
With the following patch, I got past the previous problem area.
Please include this patch in the next version of perl.
diff -ur src-5.8.0/Configure src-5.8.0-local/Configure
--- src-5.8.0/Configure 2002-07-19 00:55:15.000000000 +0200
+++ src-5.8.0-local/Configure 2003-05-13 20:23:30.000000000 +0200
@@ -9382,18 +9382,18 @@
echo "Checking whether your compiler can handle __attribute__ ..." >&4
$cat >attrib.c <<'EOCP'
#include <stdio.h>
-void croak (char* pat,...) __attribute__((format(printf,1,2),noreturn));
+void croak (char* pat,...) __attribute__((__format__(__printf__,1,2),noreturn));
EOCP
if $cc $ccflags -c attrib.c >attrib.out 2>&1 ; then
if $contains 'warning' attrib.out >/dev/null 2>&1; then
- echo "Your C compiler doesn't fully support __attribute__."
+ echo "Your C compiler doesn't fully support __attribute__." >&4
val="$undef"
else
- echo "Your C compiler supports __attribute__."
+ echo "Your C compiler supports __attribute__." >&4
val="$define"
fi
else
- echo "Your C compiler doesn't seem to understand __attribute__ at all."
+ echo "Your C compiler doesn't seem to understand __attribute__ at all." >&4
val="$undef"
fi
set d_attribut