Re: Perl tests

[Michal 'hramrach' Suchanek]

On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 11:00:59PM +1000, Glenn McGrath wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Oct 2002 15:18:16 +0200
> "Michal 'hramrach' Suchanek" <hramrach_l@centrum.cz> wrote:
> 
> > I managed to compile enough of perl 5.8 (5.8.0-13 deb) to run the tests.
> > I got the source package, did
> > 
> > --- hints/gnu.sh~   Tue Oct  1 11:40:02 2002
> > +++ hints/gnu.sh    Tue Oct  1 11:40:57 2002
> > @@ -6,7 +6,8 @@
> >  # XXX remove this once SUNRPC is implemented.
> >  set `echo X "$libswanted "| sed -e 's/ nsl / /'`
> >  shift
> > -libswanted="$*"
> > +# XXX add required libs _before_ libc
> > +libswanted="pthread ihash ""$*"
> >  
> 
> hmm, i had to remove all refernce to -lc to get it miniperlmain to run
> without segfaulting, i tried adding -lc before -lpthreads but it didnt
> seem to work for me.
> 
> I edited the Makefile directly and changed the -lc to a -lpthreads in the
> libs = " line. (cant remember the exact libs i used).
> 
> If you dont tell the linker to link to libc it still does it, so there is
> no harm, i found that if you add -lc to the lpthread/tests/Makefile it
> fails those tests as well.
> 
Yes, it fails when linked statically. It takes quite long both to compile
and to run this way. But linked dynamically it works..

-- 
Michal Suchanek
hramrach@centrum.cz