From eric@wuphys.wustl.edu

I'm trying to build the latest (stable) release of Perl
on an SGI box running IRIX 4.0.1. When I run make I get
the following​:

******************** BEGIN *********************************

what? make
  AutoSplitting perl library
  ./miniperl -Ilib -e
'use AutoSplit; \
  autosplit_lib_modules(@​ARGV)' lib/*.pm
lib/*/*.pm

  Making DynaLoader (static)

  Making B (static)

  Making Data​::Dumper (static)

  Making Fcntl (static)

Making IO (static)

  Making IPC​::SysV (static)

  Making
NDBM_File (static)

  Making ODBM_File (static)

  Making
Opcode (static)

  Making POSIX (static)

  Making SDBM_File
(static)
  /bin/sh -c true

  Making Socket (static)

Making attrs (static)

  Making re (static)
  cc
-L/usr/local/lib -o perl perlmain.o lib/auto/DynaLoader/DynaLoader.a
lib/auto/B/B.a lib/auto/Data/Dumper/Dumper.a lib/auto/Fcntl/Fcntl.a
lib/auto/IO/IO.a lib/auto/IPC/SysV/SysV.a lib/auto/NDBM_File/NDBM_File.a
lib/auto/ODBM_File/ODBM_File.a lib/auto/Opcode/Opcode.a
lib/auto/POSIX/POSIX.a lib/auto/SDBM_File/SDBM_File.a
lib/auto/Socket/Socket.a lib/auto/attrs/attrs.a lib/auto/re/re.a libperl.a
`cat ext.libs` -lmalloc -lsun -lm -lc -lcrypt -lbsd -lPW

/usr/bin/ld​:
Undefined​:
stob
*** Error code 1

****************************** END *****************************

Here's the output of 'myconfig'​:

Summary of my perl5 (5.0 patchlevel 5 subversion 3) configuration​:

Platform​:
  osname=irix, osvers=4, archname=IP12-irix
  uname='irix
ionprobe 4.0.1 11150233 ip12 '
  hint=recommended, useposix=true,
d_sigaction=define
  usethreads=undef useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef

Compiler​:
  cc='cc', optimize='-O1', gccversion=
  cppflags='-ansiposix
-signed -I/usr/local/include -DLANGUAGE_C'
  ccflags ='-ansiposix -signed
-I/usr/local/include -DLANGUAGE_C'
  stdchar='unsigned char',
d_stdstdio=define, usevfork=false
  intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4,
doublesize=8
  d_longlong=undef, longlongsize=, d_longdbl=define,
longdblsize=8
  alignbytes=8, usemymalloc=n, prototype=define
  Linker
and Libraries​:
  ld='ld', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib'

libpth=/usr/local/lib /usr/lib /lib
  libs=-lmalloc -lsun -lm -lc -lcrypt
-lbsd -lPW
  libc=/usr/lib/libc.a, so=none, useshrplib=false,
libperl=libperl.a
  Dynamic Linking​:
  dlsrc=dl_none.xs, dlext=none,
d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=''
  cccdlflags='', lddlflags=''

Do you have any idea as to the cause of my linker error?

Thanks,
eric

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