No - all my problems went away when I started using the GCC fro everything :-).
The rarer problems I have now are with some non GCC compiled code, or code that isnt
compiled position independent. Lots of pointers to problems like this on the HP
compiler mailing lists.
Cheers.
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 08:31:47AM -0700, Brian Ingerson wrote:
> Piers Harding wrote:
> >
> > I have done this but I used the GCC on HP-UX - available from
>http://devresource.hp.com. I have had so much trouble with building other products
>such as Apache with mod_perl and openssl, and openldap, that I discarded the hp
>compiler ( you should see the comments about the hp compiler in the DBD::Oracle help!
>).
>
> Hmmm. Our tests also used a perl (5.005_03) built with gcc.
>
> $Config::Config{cc} eq 'gcc'
>
> Piers: Did you build perl yourself from the source? You're not mixing a
> perl built with HP's compiler, with Inline using gcc. Right?
>
> Clint: If you've got the time, try:
>
> - installing gcc
> - put gcc in your path (this will avoid my Makefile.PL bug :)
> - build a new perl with gcc
>
> I believe the easiest way to build perl is:
>
> % sh Configure -Dprefix=/base/install/path -ders
> % make && make test
> % make install
>
> , Brian
