> Hi perl-mvs > Its been a while since anyone commented on installing perl 5.8 > using the Gnu Compiler Collection, GCC 3.2 for USS, provided by David > Pitts. > > I have been somewhat successful using the configure script and > get as far as a Make Depend. After a re-edit of the new makefile where > I remove 37 occurances of 'command line' and ' built-in', I tried > running the make script, and have some success building 4 .o files. > > gv.o miniperlmain.o perl.o toke.o > > When make tries to build the perly.o file, where I have followed the > directions in the hints/os390, and am using bison as my yacc, it cannot > assemble, and build the load module for perly.o. I scanned the perl mvs > news group and google, and found some discussion about this breaking the > perl build. > > My question is, > > > Is this about as far as one can go, to get perl 5.8.4 built on > OS/390 USS with GNU GCC 3.2 ???
Hi Gary. You may be interested to know that in the development branch of Perl (currently at 5.9.1), the perly.y side of things has been completely overhauled, in such a way that it no longer requires users on EBCDIC systems to install bison to build perl itself (I believe it's still needed to build the s2p binary). However, these changes haven't yet been integrated back into the 5.8.x branch, since they haven't yet been tested on an EBCDIC system! So if you are feeling keen, you might want to try downloading and installing 5.9.1 (http://www.cpan.org/pub/CPAN/src/perl-5.9.1.tar.gz) and let us know how you get on. Dave. -- The optimist believes that he lives in the best of all possible worlds. As does the pessimist.
