From rmb1@cise.npl.co.uk

I narrowed the problem down a bit

It builds OK with

../Configure -des -Dcc=gcc -Doptimize=-g && make
../Configure -des -Dcc=gcc -Duseperlio && make

but

../Configure -des -Dcc=gcc -Doptimize=-g -Duseperlio && make

stops with

rm -f libperl.a
/usr/ccs/bin/ar rcu libperl.a perl.o malloc.o gv.o toke.o perly.o op.o regcomp.o dump.o util.o mg.o hv.o av.o run.o pp_hot.o sv.o pp.o scope.o pp_ctl.o pp_sys.o doop.o doio.o regexec.o utf8.o taint.o deb.o universal.o globals.o perlio.o
gcc -L/usr/local/lib -L/opt/gnu/lib -o miniperl miniperlmain.o libperl.a -lsocket -lnsl -ldl -lm -lrt -lc -lcrypt -lsec
Undefined first referenced
symbol in file
ckWARN_s libperl.a(perlio.o)
ld​: fatal​: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to miniperl
collect2​: ld returned 1 exit status
make​: *** [miniperl] Error 1

Robin

Output of ./myconfig

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 5 subversion 60) configuration​:
  Platform​:
  osname=solaris, osvers=2.7, archname=sun4-solaris
  uname='sunos tempest 5.7 generic_106541-04 sun4u sparc sunw,ultra-5_10 '
  config_args='-des -Dcc=gcc -Doptimize=-g -Duseperlio'
  hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
  usethreads=undef useperlio=define d_sfio=undef
  use64bits=undef usemultiplicity=undef
  Compiler​:
  cc='gcc', optimize='-g', gccversion=2.95.1 19990816 (release)
  cppflags='-DDEBUGGING -I/usr/local/include -I/opt/gnu/include'
  ccflags ='-DDEBUGGING -I/usr/local/include -I/opt/gnu/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=16
  alignbytes=8, usemymalloc=y, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries​:
  ld='gcc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib -L/opt/gnu/lib'
  libpth=/usr/local/lib /opt/gnu/lib /lib /usr/lib /usr/ccs/lib
  libs=-lsocket -lnsl -ldl -lm -lrt -lc -lcrypt -lsec
  libc=/lib/libc.so, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
  Dynamic Linking​:
  dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' '
  cccdlflags='-fPIC', lddlflags='-G -L/usr/local/lib -L/opt/gnu/lib'

From [Unknown Contact. See original ticket]

-Doptimize=-g -Duseperlio
X-Sun-Charset​: US-ASCII

This problem is fixed in perl5.005_61

Robin