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Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 8 subversion 8) configuration: Platform: osname=darwin, osvers=9.0, archname=darwin-thread-multi-2level uname='darwin b02.apple.com 9.0 darwin kernel version 9.3.0: tue aug 12 17:18:07 pdt 2008; root:xnu-1228.5.90~13release_i386 i386 ' config_args='-ds -e -Dprefix=/usr -Dccflags=-g -pipe -Dldflags= -Dman3ext=3pm -Duseithreads -Duseshrplib' hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define usethreads=define use5005threads=undef useithreads=define usemultiplicity=define useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef use64bitint=define use64bitall=define uselongdouble=undef usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef Compiler: cc='cc', ccflags ='-arch ppc -arch i386 -g -pipe -fno-common -DPERL_DARWIN -no-cpp-precomp -fno-strict-aliasing -Wdeclaration-after-statement -I/usr/local/include', optimize='-O3', cppflags='-no-cpp-precomp -arch ppc -g -pipe -fno-common -DPERL_DARWIN -no-cpp-precomp -fno-strict-aliasing -Wdeclaration-after-statement -I/usr/local/include' ccversion='', gccversion='4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5465)', gccosandvers='' intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234 d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=16 ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8 alignbytes=8, prototype=define Linker and Libraries: ld='cc -mmacosx-version-min=10.5.7', ldflags ='-arch ppc -arch i386 -L/usr/local/lib' libpth=/usr/local/lib /usr/lib libs=-ldbm -ldl -lm -lutil -lc perllibs=-ldl -lm -lutil -lc libc=/usr/lib/libc.dylib, so=dylib, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.dylib gnulibc_version='' Dynamic Linking: dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=bundle, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' ' cccdlflags=' ', lddlflags='-arch ppc -arch i386 -bundle -undefined dynamic_lookup -L/usr/local/lib' Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): Compile-time options: MULTIPLICITY PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT PERL_MALLOC_WRAP USE_ITHREADS USE_LARGE_FILES USE_PERLIO USE_REENTRANT_API Locally applied patches: fix for regcomp CVE-2007-5116 security vulnerability fix for double-free CVE-2008-1927 security vulnerability /Library/Perl/Updates/<version> comes before system perl directories installprivlib and installarchlib points to the Updates directory Built under darwin Compiled at Mar 11 2009 16:09:08 %ENV: PERL5LIB="/tectomt/share/installed_libs/lib/perl5:/tectomt/share/installed_libs/lib/perl5/darwin-thread-multi-2level:/tectomt/libs/core:/tectomt/libs/blocks:/tectomt/libs/other:/tectomt/share/tred/tredlib:/tectomt/share/tred/tredlib/libs/fslib:/tectomt/share/tred/tredlib/libs/pml-base:/tectomt/share/tred/tredlib/libs/backends:" PERLLIB="/tectomt/share/installed_libs/lib/perl5:/tectomt/share/installed_libs/lib/perl5/darwin-thread-multi-2level:/tectomt/libs/core:/tectomt/libs/blocks:/tectomt/libs/other:/tectomt/share/tred/tredlib:/tectomt/share/tred/tredlib/libs/fslib:/tectomt/share/tred/tredlib/libs/pml-base:/tectomt/share/tred/tredlib/libs/backends:" @INC: /tectomt/share/installed_libs/lib/perl5/darwin-thread-multi-2level /tectomt/share/installed_libs/lib/perl5 /tectomt/share/installed_libs/lib/perl5/darwin-thread-multi-2level /tectomt/libs/core /tectomt/libs/blocks /tectomt/libs/other /tectomt/share/tred/tredlib /tectomt/share/tred/tredlib/libs/fslib /tectomt/share/tred/tredlib/libs/pml-base /tectomt/share/tred/tredlib/libs/backends /Library/Perl/Updates/5.8.8/darwin-thread-multi-2level /Library/Perl/Updates/5.8.8 /System/Library/Perl/5.8.8/darwin-thread-multi-2level /System/Library/Perl/5.8.8 /Library/Perl/5.8.8/darwin-thread-multi-2level /Library/Perl/5.8.8 /Library/Perl /Network/Library/Perl/5.8.8/darwin-thread-multi-2level /Network/Library/Perl/5.8.8 /Network/Library/Perl /System/Library/Perl/Extras/5.8.8/darwin-thread-multi-2level /System/Library/Perl/Extras/5.8.8 /Library/Perl/5.8.6 /Library/Perl/5.8.1 . Karel On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Martin Becker<mha...@cpan.org> wrote: > Michael, > > apparently "hesco" running perl 5.8.8 on a linux box had the same problem > with ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.52, see CPAN testers report 4102883. > > http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/M/MS/MSCHWERN/ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.53_02.tar.gz > > Maybe this tester can provide more information on the exact circumstances > of the failure. At least we can see a complete perl -V output in > their report. > > Greetings, > -Martin >