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Quoting "H.Merijn Brand" <h.m.brand@xs4all.nl>: > On Sat, 24 May 2008 20:48:30 +0200, David Landgren <david@landgren.net> > wrote: > >> Compiling perl (5.10.x) with gcc <= 3.2.3 >> >> After sparring with the RT bug database, Bram began to install as many >> versions of "gcc" as he could lay his hands on, to see how they fared >> compiling perl. >> >> When he got as far back as version 3.2.3, the "Configure" and "make" >> succeeded, but the test suite spat out numerous "libgcc_s.so.1: cannot >> open shared object file" errors. >> >> Andy Dougherty suggested a riff on the "-fstack-protector" problems >> seen elsewhere this week, but that didn't do any better. Since the >> compiler in question was released five years ago, Andy suggested just >> adding a note in the INSTALL file. >> >> H.Merijn Brand committed change #33841 to note the fact in >> README.linux, but wasn't really happy with the idea, since gcc runs on >> other platforms as well. But that's ok, because he will have to revert >> the change, since Bram figured out a simple recipe that allows 3.2.3 >> to work. >> >> http://xrl.us/bkyta > > Well, does it need to be reverted? Or does it need some more generic > comment somewhere else? > I'll send a patch for it. The patch might also contain work arounds for other problems, that is if it can not be resolved in another way. (Expect a patch when I'm done playing and testing, which might not be until next week, a machine on which I was testing stopped responding on ssh which means a trip to the datacenter :( ) Kind regards, BramThread Previous