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I get the following make error when compiling perl 5.8.5 on a really
old RedHat (7.0, I believe). Any ideas?

Running Mkbootstrap for Encode​::TW ()
chmod 644 TW.bs
rm -f ../../../lib/auto/Encode/TW/TW.so
LD_RUN_PATH="" cc -shared -L/usr/local/lib TW.o bi_00_t.o bi_01_t.o
cp_02_t.o ma_03_t.o -o ../../../lib/auto/Encode/TW/TW.so
chmod 755 ../../../lib/auto/Encode/TW/TW.so
cp TW.bs ../../../lib/auto/Encode/TW/TW.bs
chmod 644 ../../../lib/auto/Encode/TW/TW.bs
make[2]​: Leaving directory
`/scratch2/mcampos/prereqs/ni/perl-5.8.5/ext/Encode/TW'
make[2]​: Entering directory
`/scratch2/OS_STASH/usr/local/src/ni/perl-5.8.5/ext/Encode/Unicode'
cp Unicode.pm ../../../lib/Encode/Unicode.pm
make[2]​: *** No rule to make target
`/scratch2/mcampos/prereqs/ni/perl-5.8.5/lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp', needed
by `Unicode.c'. Stop.
make[2]​: Leaving directory
`/scratch2/OS_STASH/usr/local/src/ni/perl-5.8.5/ext/Encode/Unicode'
make[1]​: *** [subdirs] Error 2
make[1]​: Leaving directory
`/scratch2/mcampos/prereqs/ni/perl-5.8.5/ext/Encode'
make​: *** [lib/auto/Encode/Encode.so] Error 2

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 8 subversion 5) configuration​:
  Platform​:
  osname=linux, osvers=2.2.16-22smp, archname=i686-linux
  uname='linux pevweb 2.2.16-22smp #1 smp tue aug 22 16​:39​:21 edt
2000 i686 unknown '
  config_args=''
  hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
  usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=undef
usemultiplicity=undef
  useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef
  use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef
  usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
  Compiler​:
  cc='cc', ccflags ='-fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
-D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -I/usr/include/gdbm',
  optimize='-O2',
  cppflags='-fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/include/gdbm'
  ccversion='', gccversion='2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.0)',
gccosandvers=''
  intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234
  d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
  ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t',
lseeksize=8
  alignbytes=4, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries​:
  ld='cc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib'
  libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib
  libs=-lnsl -lgdbm -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lc
  perllibs=-lnsl -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lc
  libc=/lib/libc-2.1.92.so, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
  gnulibc_version='2.1.92'
  Dynamic Linking​:
  dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-Wl,-E'
  cccdlflags='-fpic', lddlflags='-shared -L/usr/local/lib'

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Nevermind.

It looks like rm'ing the source and re-running Configure did the trick.

- Max

@iabyn - Status changed from 'new' to 'resolved'

From @nwc10

On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 11​:44​:35AM -0700, Max Campos wrote​:

Nevermind.

It looks like rm'ing the source and re-running Configure did the trick.

Thanks for the all clear.

Nicholas Clark