From walsh@eies.njit.edu

Given simple script like this "hello.pl"​:

#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
print "Hello, world!\n";

Then "perlcc hello.pl" emits repeating lines similar to​:

Use of uninitialized value at /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.00502/sun4-solaris/B.pm lin
e 194.

Interesting points are​:
- Compile and executable apparently otherwise okay;
- Still has -w functionality
- Doesn't happen if $^W=1 is used
- Doesn't happen with other options like "-a"
- Still happens if combined with other options like "-aw"
- Exactly repeatable w/ same version of Perl on SunOS 5.5.1 (Solaris 2.5.1)

Pleasant regards,
Kevin J. Walsh
NJ Inst of Tech, Computing Services

PS--PERL IS THE BEST THING TO HAPPEN TO THE INDUSTRY SINCE TURING MET LOVELACE.
HOPE YOU ARE ALL VERY PROUD OF YOUR CONTINUING CONTRIBUTION TO MANKIND!
Umm, but not so proud as to not work on my minor nitpickin' bug!

Site configuration information for perl 5.00502​:

Configured by root at Thu Oct 22 11​:29​:16 EDT 1998.

Summary of my perl5 (5.0 patchlevel 5 subversion 2) configuration​:
  Platform​:
  osname=solaris, osvers=2.6, archname=sun4-solaris
  uname='sunos mule 5.6 generic_105181-05 sun4u sparc sunw,ultra-4 '
  hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
  usethreads=undef useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef
  Compiler​:
  cc='gcc', optimize='-O2', gccversion=2.8.1
  cppflags='-I/usr/local/include'
  ccflags ='-I/usr/local/include'
  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='gcc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib'
  libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib /usr/ccs/lib
  libs=-lsocket -lnsl -lgdbm -ldl -lm -lc -lcrypt
  libc=, 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'

Locally applied patches​:
 

@​INC for perl 5.00502​:
  /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.00502/sun4-solaris
  /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.00502
  /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/sun4-solaris
  /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005
  .

Environment for perl 5.00502​:
  HOME=/home/w/walsh
  LANG (unset)
  LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/share/basispls/dm/lib​:
  LOGDIR (unset)
  PATH=/home/w/walsh/work​:/share/basispls/dmk/bin​:/share/basispls/dm/bin​:/usr/local/bin​:/usr/bin​:/usr/ucb​:/usr/ccs/bin​:/usr/openwin/bin​:/home/w/walsh/bin​:/share/papyrus/dev/bin​:/eiestest/dbusr1/bin​:/eiestest/eies/bin​:/share/bin
  PERL_BADLANG (unset)
  SHELL=/usr/bin/ksh