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Queue: PAR-Packer
Subject: AW: [rt.cpan.org #59224] make error with version 1.006 on aix 5.3
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Ticket <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=59224 >
Hello Roderich,
I've run in the same problem with PAR-Packer-1.018 again. But this time I found
another quick-fix for this problem:
http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.par/2008/06/msg3615.html
##### QUOTE BEGIN #####
On all AIX versions I tested (4.3 - 5.3) the following compiler error
will be seen when running a 'make' for PAR::Packer:
------------
./par: execution of ./par failed - aborting with -1.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at -e line 975.
make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 7.
Stop.
------------
A trace of the process showed E2BIG - which means the default AIX
setting of ncargs (ARG/ENV list size in 4K byte blocks) is not
sufficient for PAR::Packer to function.
A possible (quick)fix is to increase ncargs from its default value of 6
by running 'chdev -l sys0 -a ncargs=7', bearing in mind this can only be
done on AIX 5L and higher, not AIX 4.3.
Can this ncargs requirement really not be avoided by the distribution?
It was not a problem during earlier PAR::Packer distributions I built
(at least 0.970, possibly 0.976).
##### QUOTE END #####
Maybe you can append this quick-fix to the ticket.
Cheers, Emanuel
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Roderich Schupp via RT [mailto:bug-par-pac...@rt.cpan.org]
Gesendet: Freitag, 6. August 2010 12:33
An: Reisinger Emanuel
Betreff: [rt.cpan.org #59224] make error with version 1.006 on aix 5.3
<URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=59224 >
On 2010-08-05 09:28:05, ogv wrote:
> I hope this is what you need.
> the output: env - truss -f -a -e par
Yes, that confirms that the E2BIG for execve() is caused
by too large args+env passed to the program.
According to IBM docs, AIX 5 has a ridiculous, non-configurable
limit of 24K for args.
The main culprit here is PAR::Packer: it calls par with one
argument that is already 23K long (it's a "perl -e ..." type
command). Maybe I can eliminate that, but that's a bit of work
and I want to make sure beforehand that this the only reason
why PAR::Packer doesn't work on AIX 5.
Hence, are you ready for a little experiment?
(1) Run "make clean" to start with a clean slate
(2) Try to shrink your process enviroment by unsetting all
environment variables that are not absolutely necessary
(3) Strip non-functional whitespace from script/par.pl
(saves ~4K) by running
$ perl -i -p -e 's/^\s+// if /^=cut/../^1;/' script/par.pl
(4) Save some more environmental bytes by reducing the array
ld_path_keys in function par_setup_libpath in myldr/mktmpdir.c
like this
const char *ld_path_keys[3] = {
"LIBPATH", "PATH", ""
};
(note the empty string as last element)
(5) Now try a normal build
$ perl Makefile.PL
$ make
$ make test
Cheers, Roderich
