I'll have to have a closer look at the compilers on our system. The gcc
compiler is version 2.7 and that may be the reason I had to compile perl
using cc. Thanks for your help.
Regards,
Stephen Barry
Land and Water Sciences Division
Bureau of Rural Sciences
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael A. Chase [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, 27 July 2000 21:25
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: COMPILING HTML::PARSER
>
>
> If you do change to gcc, you'll need to rebuild Perl too.
> You must build
> modules with the same compiler as Perl was built with.
>
> Did you build your Perl locally or download a binary distribution?
> --
> Mac :})
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ian Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Gisle Aas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2000 2:52 AM
> Subject: Re: COMPILING HTML::PARSER
>
>
> > On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 11:04:00AM +0200, Gisle Aas screeved:
> > >
> > > > > I'm on a sun running SunOS 5.6
> > > > > using perl 5.00405
> > > > > c compiler: WorkShop Compilers 4.2 30 Oct 1996 C 4.2
> > > > >
> > > > > Is there something I can do to get this to compile on
> my system?
> > > >
> > > > Yes, upgrade your Perl.
> > > >
> > > > > "./util.c", line 59: undefined symbol: PL_hexdigit
> > > >
> > > > IIRC, PL_hexdigit is one of the symbols that post date
> perl 5.004.
> > >
> > > I don't have problems compiling HTML-Parser with
> perl5.004_05 here.
> > > There must be something else that is the problem.
> >
> > It could well be your very old C compiler; I had no problems with
> > cc: WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/12/15 C 5.0
> >
> > You could try using the GNU compiler instead? IIRC,
> Workshop 4.2 was utter
> > rubbish, at least, from any modern C++ perspective. I dunno
> about the C
> though!
>
>
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