Not OK: perl 5.00563 on IP26-irix 6.5 #925

p5pRT · 1999-12-09T06:16:24Z

Migrated from rt.perl.org#1868 (status was 'resolved')

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p5pRT · 1999-12-09T06:16:24Z

From jarausch@numa1.igpm.rwth-aachen.de

Tiny BUILD problem
I have Berkeley db-3.0.55 install und the Configure process does NOT
install DB_File by default. When forcing it to do, it passes all tests
except test 12 as is currently normal

It SEEMS to fail lib/io_xs and lib/trig
but doing (in the t directory)

./perl TEST lib/io_xs.t
./perl TEST lib/trig.t

then all tests are passed.
Doing
./perl -I../lib harness
lib/io_xs.t passes without problems
while
lib/trig.t
gives lib/trig............dubious
Test returned status 0 (wstat 11, 0xb)

and there is a 'core' file in t
but again running it separately causes no problems

What am I missing?

Perl Info



Site configuration information for perl 5.00563:

Configured by jarausch at Thu Dec  9 14:01:18 CST 1999.

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 5 subversion 63) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=irix, osvers=6.5, archname=IP26-irix
    uname='irix64 numa1 6.5 07151439 ip26 '
    config_args='-Dcc=cc -Dprefix=/usr/LOCAL -Dlocincpth=/usr/LOCAL/include -Dloclibpth=/usr/LOCAL/lib'
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    usethreads=undef useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef
    use64bits=undef usemultiplicity=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='cc', optimize='-O3 -mips4  -OPT:Olimit=0', gccversion=
    cppflags='-D_BSD_TYPES -D_BSD_TIME -I/usr/LOCAL/include -DLANGUAGE_C'
    ccflags ='-D_BSD_TYPES -D_BSD_TIME -I/usr/LOCAL/include -DLANGUAGE_C'
    stdchar='unsigned 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='cc', ldflags =' -Wl,-woff,84 -L/usr/LOCAL/lib'
    libpth=/usr/LOCAL/lib /usr/lib32 /lib32
    libs=-lgdbm -lm -lc
    libc=/usr/lib32/libc.so, so=so, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.so
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='  -Wl,-rpath,/usr/LOCAL/lib/perl5/5.00563/IP26-irix/CORE'
    cccdlflags='-Wl,-rpath,/usr/LOCAL/lib/perl5/5.00563/IP26-irix/CORE', lddlflags='-shared -L/usr/LOCAL/lib'

Locally applied patches:
    


@INC for perl 5.00563:
    /usr/LOCAL/lib/perl5/5.00563/IP26-irix
    /usr/LOCAL/lib/perl5/5.00563
    /usr/LOCAL/lib/site_perl/5.00563/IP26-irix
    /usr/LOCAL/lib/site_perl
    .


Environment for perl 5.00563:
    HOME=/usr/people/jarausch
    LANG=C
    LANGUAGE (unset)
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/people/jarausch/ZIP/Netscape/package
    LOGDIR (unset)
    PATH=.:/usr/people/jarausch/bin:/usr/PRIVATE/bin:/usr/LOCAL/bin:/usr/LOCAL/teTeX/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/java/bin:/usr/bsd:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/bin/X11:/usr/sbin:/usr/demos/bin
    PERL_BADLANG (unset)
    SHELL=/bin/zsh

p5pRT · 1999-12-09T06:30:06Z

From @doughera88

On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Helmut Jarausch wrote:

This is a build failure report for perl from jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de,
generated with the help of perlbug 1.27 running under perl 5.00563.

-----------------------------------------------------------------
[Please enter your report here]

Tiny BUILD problem
I have Berkeley db-3.0.55 install und the Configure process does NOT
install DB_File by default. When forcing it to do, it passes all tests
except test 12 as is currently normal

Hmm. I've never seen db-3, but the Configure tests are designed to
allow any db version < 2 or >= 2.3.4. It's possible the version
detection logic has changed in 3.0.55 or that Configure is finding
a mixture of old and new versions.

Try running Configure without the -s switch, i.e.

rm -f config.sh
sh Configure [your usual args] -dE > config.log 2>&1

The db tests ought to print out more information. Edit down the
config.log and send along the relevant db parts and I'll see what sense
I can make of it.

Thanks,

Andy Dougherty doughera@lafayette.edu
Dept. of Physics
Lafayette College, Easton PA 18042

p5pRT · 1999-12-09T11:52:45Z

From @pmqs

From: Andy Dougherty [mailto:doughera@lafayette.edu]

On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Helmut Jarausch wrote:

This is a build failure report for perl from
jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de,
generated with the help of perlbug 1.27 running under perl 5.00563.

-----------------------------------------------------------------
[Please enter your report here]

Tiny BUILD problem
I have Berkeley db-3.0.55 install und the Configure process does NOT
install DB_File by default. When forcing it to do, it
passes all tests
except test 12 as is currently normal

Hmm. I've never seen db-3, but the Configure tests are designed to
allow any db version < 2 or >= 2.3.4. It's possible the version
detection logic has changed in 3.0.55 or that Configure is finding
a mixture of old and new versions.

The version logic is unchanged with Berkeley DB 3.x

Paul

p5pRT · 1999-12-10T06:46:44Z

From @doughera88

On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Andy Dougherty wrote:

On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Helmut Jarausch wrote:

I have Berkeley db-3.0.55 install und the Configure process does NOT
install DB_File by default.

Thanks to Helmut's patient experimenting, we have found the problem:

Helmut> I had forgotten that db-3.0.55 needs to be linked to libpthread.so

My question is -- is this generic? On platforms other than Irix, does
db-3.0.xx need to be linked to libpthread (or equivalent)?

On Irix, what's the downside of *always* including -lpthread in the
list of libraries to use? Specifically, I'm imagining modifying Configure
to magically add -lpthread on Irix if db >=3 and if -lpthread is not
already there. I'm concerned this might break something else, however.

Anybody have any good ideas?

Andy Dougherty doughera@lafayette.edu
Dept. of Physics
Lafayette College, Easton PA 18042

p5pRT · 1999-12-10T07:47:53Z

From @pmqs

From: Andy Dougherty [mailto:doughera@lafayette.edu]

On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Andy Dougherty wrote:

On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Helmut Jarausch wrote:

I have Berkeley db-3.0.55 install und the Configure
process does NOT
install DB_File by default.

Thanks to Helmut's patient experimenting, we have found the problem:

Helmut> I had forgotten that db-3.0.55 needs to be linked to
libpthread.so

That's a new one on me. Is there something in the Berkeley DB documentation
that mentions that?

My question is -- is this generic?

Nope.

On platforms other than Irix, does
db-3.0.xx need to be linked to libpthread (or equivalent)?

Nope, it isn't needed on Linux or SunOS.

Paul

p5pRT · 1999-12-10T13:44:14Z

From [Unknown Contact. See original ticket]

"A" == Andy Dougherty <doughera@lafayette.edu> writes:

A> On Irix, what's the downside of *always* including -lpthread in the
A> list of libraries to use? Specifically, I'm imagining modifying Configure
A> to magically add -lpthread on Irix if db >=3 and if -lpthread is not
A> already there. I'm concerned this might break something else, however.

If you include -lpthread, I haven't figured out how to use perl's
malloc. Probably need to define the missing entrypoints that are
used by libpthread (which also replaces libcmalloc with a
thread-safe one).

--
Scott Henry <scotth@sgi.com> / Help! My disclaimer is missing!
IRIX MTS, / GIGO *really* means: Garbage in, Gospel Out
Silicon Graphics, Inc / http://reality.sgi.com/scotth/

p5pRT · 1999-12-10T13:51:20Z

From @doughera88

On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Scott Henry wrote:

"A" == Andy Dougherty <doughera@lafayette.edu> writes:

A> On Irix, what's the downside of *always* including -lpthread in the
A> list of libraries to use? Specifically, I'm imagining modifying Configure
A> to magically add -lpthread on Irix if db >=3 and if -lpthread is not
A> already there. I'm concerned this might break something else, however.

If you include -lpthread, I haven't figured out how to use perl's
malloc. Probably need to define the missing entrypoints that are
used by libpthread (which also replaces libcmalloc with a
thread-safe one).

Hmm. Messier and messier. Maybe it's back to figuring out
why this installation of db-3.0.55 wandted -lpthread on Irix but
doesn't seem to care on Solaris or Linux.

Thanks for the info.

Hmm further -- I think that this may no longer be true in 5.005_63 -- I
vaguely recall perl's malloc is normally no longer supposed to try to
replace the system malloc, but always be called perl_malloc or some such.

Still, I think it's time to go back to db-3.0.55 and see what's up at that
end.

Thanks,

Andy Dougherty doughera@lafayette.edu
Dept. of Physics
Lafayette College, Easton PA 18042

p5pRT · 1999-12-22T11:30:21Z

From @doughera88

On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Andy Dougherty wrote:

On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Helmut Jarausch wrote:

Tiny BUILD problem
I have Berkeley db-3.0.55 install und the Configure process does NOT
install DB_File by default. When forcing it to do, it passes all tests
except test 12 as is currently normal

The ultimate difficulty here was that db-3.0.55 was linked against
-lpthread, while the perl being built was not. I don't have a generic
solution to that problem yet.

In the meantime, this tiny Configure patch at least exposes the problem
earlier and gives some information about what might be needed:

Andy Dougherty doughera@lafayette.edu
Dept. of Physics
Lafayette College, Easton PA 18042

Inline Patch

--- perl/Configure	Fri Dec 10 14:43:44 1999
+++ andy/Configure	Wed Dec 22 14:19:29 1999
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 
 # $Id: Head.U,v 3.0.1.9 1997/02/28 15:02:09 ram Exp $
 #
-# Generated on Tue Nov 16 23:04:27 EET 1999 [metaconfig 3.0 PL70]
+# Generated on Wed Dec 22 14:18:58 EST 1999 [metaconfig 3.0 PL70]
 # (with additional metaconfig patches by perlbug@perl.com)
 
 cat >/tmp/c1$$ <<EOF
@@ -11262,7 +11267,7 @@
 }
 EOCP
 	set try
-	if eval $compile && ./try; then
+	if eval $compile_ok && ./try; then
 		echo 'Looks OK.' >&4
 	else
 		echo "I can't use Berkeley DB with your <db.h>.  I'll disable Berkeley DB." >&4

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Not OK: perl 5.00563 on IP26-irix 6.5 #925

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