From @ops

This is a bug report for perl from ops@​iki.fi,
generated with the help of perlbug 1.35 running under perl v5.8.7.

Hi

I'm building perl 5.8.7-RC1 on LynxOS and I encountered
a compilation problem. It is a result of missing prototype
in LynxOS system header files. With the following
patch I'm able to compile perl successfully.

Could it be possible to get this change in main tree?

Regards,
Olli

diff -rc perl-5.8.7-RC1.orig/util.c perl-5.8.7-RC1/util.c
*** perl-5.8.7-RC1.orig/util.c Wed Apr 27 14​:19​:19 2005
--- perl-5.8.7-RC1/util.c Fri May 27 13​:14​:42 2005
***************
*** 30,35 ****
--- 30,40 ----
  #endif
  #endif

+ #ifdef __Lynx__
+ /* Missing protos on LynxOS */
+ int putenv (char *);
+ #endif
+
  #ifdef I_SYS_WAIT
  # include <sys/wait.h>
  #endif

Flags​:
  category=core
  severity=high

Site configuration information for perl v5.8.7​:

Configured by ops at Mon May 30 12​:52​:46 EET DST 2005.

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 8 subversion 7) configuration​:
  Platform​:
  osname=lynxos, osvers=, archname=PowerPC-lynxos
  uname='lynxos pfadev01 3.0.1 110298-g powerpc '
  config_args='-de'
  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='gcc', ccflags ='-DEXTRA_F_IN_SEMUN_BUF -D__NO_INCLUDE_WARN__ -pipe -I/usr/local/include',
  optimize='-O',
  cppflags='-DEXTRA_F_IN_SEMUN_BUF -D__NO_INCLUDE_WARN__ -pipe -I/usr/local/include'
  ccversion='', gccversion='2.7-97r1', gccosandvers=''
  intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=4321
  d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=8
  ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=4
  alignbytes=4, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries​:
  ld='ld', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib'
  libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib
  libs=-lnsl -lndbm -ldbm -lm -lcrypt -lc -lbsd
  perllibs=-lnsl -lndbm -ldbm -lm -lcrypt -lc -lbsd
  libc=/lib/libc.a, so=none, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
  gnulibc_version=''
  Dynamic Linking​:
  dlsrc=dl_none.xs, dlext=none, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=''
  cccdlflags='', lddlflags=''

Locally applied patches​:
  RC1

@​INC for perl v5.8.7​:
  lib
  /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.7/PowerPC-lynxos
  /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.7
  /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7/PowerPC-lynxos
  /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7
  /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/PowerPC-lynxos
  /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5
  /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl
  .

Environment for perl v5.8.7​:
  HOME=/users/ops
  LANG (unset)
  LANGUAGE (unset)
  LD_LIBRARY_PATH (unset)
  LOGDIR (unset)
  PATH=/users/ops/script​:/users/ops/bin​:/usr/local/bin​:/usr/local/xd/bin​:/usr/local/glg/bin​:/bin​:/usr/bin​:/usr/bin/X11​:/usr/X11R6/bin​:.
  PERL_BADLANG (unset)
  SHELL=/bin/bash

From @rgs

Olli Savia (via RT) wrote​:

I'm building perl 5.8.7-RC1 on LynxOS and I encountered
a compilation problem. It is a result of missing prototype
in LynxOS system header files. With the following
patch I'm able to compile perl successfully.

Could it be possible to get this change in main tree?

Thanks, I applied it to the development tree as change #24629.

The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

From @smpeters

[rgarciasuarez@​mandriva.com - Mon May 30 04​:34​:54 2005]​:

Olli Savia (via RT) wrote​:

I'm building perl 5.8.7-RC1 on LynxOS and I encountered
a compilation problem. It is a result of missing prototype
in LynxOS system header files. With the following
patch I'm able to compile perl successfully.

Could it be possible to get this change in main tree?

Thanks, I applied it to the development tree as change #24629.

...and integrated into 5.8.7 with change #24634

@smpeters - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'