[perl #43023] Failure in perl 5.8.5 installation in linux7.2 - Please help

On Tue May 22 01:54:51 2007, Pooja <!-- x --> at edu.sg wrote:
> Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 8 subversion 8) configuration:
> Platform:
>     osname=linux, osvers=2.4.17-r1, archname=ia64-linux
> uname='linux localhost 2.4.17-r1 #2 smp tue mar 26 12:08:48 sgt 2002
> ia64 unknown '
>     config_args='-de'
>     hint=recommended,
> useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
>     usethreads=undef
> use5005threads=undef useithreads=undef usemultiplicity=undef
> useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef
> use64bitint=define use64bitall=define uselongdouble=undef
> usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
>   Compiler:
>     cc='cc', ccflags
> ='-fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
> -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -I/usr/include/gdbm',
>     optimize='-O2',
> cppflags='-fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include
> -I/usr/include/gdbm'
>     ccversion='', gccversion='2.96 20000731 (Red
> Hat Linux 7.1 2.96-101)', gccosandvers=''
>     intsize=4, longsize=8,
> ptrsize=8, doublesize=8, byteorder=12345678
>     d_longlong=define,
> longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=16
>     ivtype='long',
> ivsize=8, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8
> alignbytes=8, prototype=define
>   Linker and Libraries:
>     ld='cc',
> ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib'
>     libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib
> libs=-lnsl -lndbm -lgdbm -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lc
>     perllibs=-
> lnsl -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lc
>     libc=, so=so, useshrplib=false,
> libperl=libperl.a
>     gnulibc_version='2.2.4'
>   Dynamic Linking:
> dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-Wl,-E'
> cccdlflags='-fpic', lddlflags='-shared -L/usr/local/lib'


There were some problems with gcc optimizers on 64-bit platforms for a
time.  Can you please let us know if the problems go away when you
configure with the following command?

  ./Configure -des -Doptimize="-O1"

Thanks,

Steve Peters
steve@fisharerojo.org

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