From scott.roberts@isinet.com

Im trying to install perl5.004 under aix 4.2.1 and I got the following error
during the "make". During the "Configure" I took all of the defaults except
on my last attempt I turned off the Dynamic Loader. I hope hope the
following is enough documentation. If there is someone else I should contact
to resolve this, pplease let me know.

OUTPUT FROM THE MAKE​:
The Unsupported function umask function is unimplemented at
../../lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm line 247.
make​: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 2.

Stop.
make​: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 2.

LINE 247 of Install.pm
  my $umask = umask 0022 unless $Is_VMS; <=== line 247
  mkpath($autodir,0,0755);

OUTPUT FROM myconfig​:

Summary of my perl5 (5.0 patchlevel 4 subversion 4) configuration​:
  Platform​:
  osname=aix, osvers=4.2.1.0, archname=aix
  uname='aix watchin 2 4 000014768200 '
  hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=undef
  bincompat3=n useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef
  Compiler​:
  cc='cc', optimize='-O', gccversion=
  cppflags='-qmaxmem=8192 -D_ALL_SOURCE -D_ANSI_C_SOURCE -D_POSIX_SOURCE
-I/usr/local/include'
  ccflags ='-qmaxmem=8192 -D_ALL_SOURCE -D_ANSI_C_SOURCE -D_POSIX_SOURCE
-I/usr/local/include'
  stdchar='unsigned char', d_stdstdio=define, usevfork=false
  voidflags=15, castflags=1, d_casti32=define, d_castneg=undef
  intsize=4, alignbytes=8, usemymalloc=n, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries​:
  ld='ld', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib'
  libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib /usr/ccs/lib
  libs=-lnsl -lgdbm -ldbm -ldl -lld -lm -lc -lbsd -lPW
  libc=/lib/libc.a, so=a
  useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
  Dynamic Linking​:
  dlsrc=dl_none.xs, dlext=none, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=''
  cccdlflags='', lddlflags=''

Scott Roberts

From @doughera88

On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Roberts, Scott wrote​:

Im trying to install perl5.004 under aix 4.2.1 and I got the following error

The Unsupported function umask function is unimplemented at
../../lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm line 247.

perl5.004_04 is quite old. However, your problem probably is that you
don't have the AIX file /lib/syscalls.exp installed. Newer perl
Configures try to work around this. The problem is described in the
current INSTALL file as​:

  =item umask not found

  If the build processes encounters errors relating to umask(), the
  problem is probably that Configure couldn't find your umask()
  system call. Check your config.sh. You should have d_umask='define'.
  If you don't, this is probably the L<"nm extraction"> problem
  discussed above. Also, try reading the hints file for your system for
  further information.

Your workaround is probably to do

  make distclean
  rm -f config.sh
  sh Configure -Uusenm

Hope this helps,

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