At 2:43 PM +0000 4/25/01, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Paul Schinder wrote:
>
>> >Any more suggestions on why it dies on making Errno.pm.PL ?
>>
>> Because, although the compiler advertises itself as gcc, it doesn't
>> work like gcc in all respects. In particular, "gcc -dM -E" does not
>> work right. You need to add a "-traditional-cpp" to get the compiler
>> to spit out what Perl expects.
>>
>> If you look in Errno_pm.PL, you'll find a "if ($^O eq "darwin")",
>> which fixes this for Mac OS X. Find out how the perl on Server
>> defines $^O (I assume "rhapsody"?) and get the same fix to work for
>> you.
>
>I did this, and to start with it didn't work any better (still died on
>Errno_pm.PL so I went into that directory, re-ran perl Makefile.PL,
>edited the Makefile manually to stick in -traditional-cpp as a flag
>and it seems to have worked fine.
Yeah, I forgot to mention that you have to get rid of the zero length
file (Errno.c or Errno.pm, I can't remember which) that gets created
during the first run of Errno_pm.PL.
>
>Doing a general make test has me failing 5 tests total. (Can't
>remember them all, but I do know that pwent and sprintf were two).
>
>Thanks for your help, at least I'm ~98% testing ok!
Good! IIRC I had four tests fail on Mac OS X for 5.6.1, and it's
down to 3 in bleadperl (the development version, 5,8-to-be).
>
>-James
>
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