Could someone tell me the right place to ask questions regarding problems faced during compillation of perl 5.6.1 on i686 using gcc 3.0 on a RedHat 7.2 installation.
For the curious folks these are the steps I followed ------------------------------ tar xzf stable.tar.gz cd perl-5.6.1/ rm -f config.sh Policy.sh sh Configure -de make ------------------------------ everything works fine till now - it even says go ahead and run make test. but thats where the fun stuff happens. Make test fails 52 of the 205 tests and a sample of the error message is as follows. ------------------------------ lib/syslfs...........Can't load '../lib/auto/Fcntl/Fcntl.o' for module Fcntl: ../lib/auto/Fcntl/Fcntl.o: ELF file's phentsize not the expected size at ../lib/XSLoader.pm line 75. at ../lib/Fcntl.pm line 220 Compilation failed in require at lib/syslfs.t line 14. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at lib/syslfs.t line 15. FAILED at test 0 lib/syslog...........Can't load '../lib/auto/Socket/Socket.o' for module Socket: ../lib/auto/Socket/Socket.o: ELF file's phentsize not the expected size at ../lib/XSLoader.pm line 75. ------------------------------ A google search tells me something very fundamental has gone wrong in the installation as in the system is trying to load a file as a shared library when it isnt - although that doesnt really help me isolate or debug the problem. Ofcourse a search of the perl-beginner list archive didnt help. Regards Mithun
