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cant Compile PERL

'Make' during a Perl 5.14.2 installation keeps failing on a QNAP embedded linux (busybox) NAS device, whether its compiled with GCC, with or without threads. Have tried both the -O then -g flag. Have otherwise used all defaults.

I dont have enough knowledge to troubleshoot further.

Screen just before failure is:

Code:

chmod 755 ../../lib/auto/threads/shared/shared.so

cp shared.bs ../../lib/auto/threads/shared/shared.bs

chmod 644 ../../lib/auto/threads/shared/shared.bs

make[1]: Leaving directory `/share/MD0_DATA/misc/perl-5.14.2/dist/threads-shared'

./perl -f -Ilib pod/buildtoc --build-toc -q

make: *** [pod/perltoc.pod] Segmentation fault

Anyone can help?
Compfused

Could you provide more information about your system, i.e.
operating system, version & architecture (ex: Slackware, 13.37, x86_64)
gcc version (`gcc --version`)
Are you running it as root (or sudo) or just as the local user?

I'm not sure what the problem is either, but these should help someone who might.

I am running as root
[~] # gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 4.2.3

[~] # uname -a
Linux NASC2089B 2.6.33.2 #1 Tue Aug 16 00:31:52 CST 2011 armv5tel unknown

Also it is using an ipkg packet management system which results in “chroot” environment. However I am hoping to be able to install Perl independently of ipkg. The ipkg version of Perl is not compatible with other software I wish to install

Compused

It's bizarre that it's seg-faulting though. [s]I've never seen make seg-fault.[/s] My original guess was you were missing a dependency for perl 5.14.2 but it has approximately 5, all of which should be included even in an embedded device. And assuming ipkg does dependency resolving, that shouldn't be a problem either.

Actually, it looks like perl might be the culprit here.

Code:

./perl -f -Ilib pod/buildtoc --build-toc -q

It seems to actually be using perl to create something else (I want to say perl's documentation but that'd be perldoc, not perltoc).

Thanks for above...that *was* a clue. I have now finished 'make', somewhat unsuccessfully though as 'make test' is reporting test failures in many of the made modules eg

Code:

FAILED--expected 7 tests saw 1,

Code:

FAILED--no leader found.

The change I made that allowed 'make' to finish was as in the Makefile ie

Code:

/share/MD0_DATA/misc/perl-5.14.2/Makefile

as advised in:
http://old.nabble.com/Perl-Cross-bui...html#a31633497
ie (note that - means remove, + means replace)

Code:

- $(CC) -o generate_uudmap$(EXE_EXT) $(LDFLAGS) generate_uudmap$(OBJ_EXT) $(libs)

+ $(HOSTCC) -o generate_uudmap$(EXE_EXT) $(LDFLAGS) generate_uudmap$(OBJ_EXT) $(libs)

  

and

- $(RUN_PERL) -f -Ilib pod/buildtoc --build-toc -q

+ $(MINIPERL) -f -Ilib pod/buildtoc --build-toc -q

  

and

- -@test ! -s extras.lst || PATH="`pwd`:${PATH}" PERL5LIB="`pwd`/lib" $(RUN_PERL) -Ilib -MCPAN -e '@ARGV&&install(@ARGV)' `cat extras.lst`

+ -@test ! -s extras.lst || PATH="`pwd`:${PATH}" PERL5LIB="`pwd`/lib" $(MINIPERL) -Ilib -MCPAN -e '@ARGV&&install(@ARGV)' `cat extras.lst` 



and

- $(RUN_PERL) installperl --destdir=$(DESTDIR) $(INSTALLFLAGS) $(STRIPFLAGS)

+ $(MINIPERL) installperl --destdir=$(DESTDIR) $(INSTALLFLAGS) $(STRIPFLAGS) 

and finally:

- $(RUN_PERL) installman --destdir=$(DESTDIR) $(INSTALLFLAGS)

+ $(MINIPERL) installman --destdir=$(DESTDIR) $(INSTALLFLAGS)

'make test' kept hanging at:

Code:

lib/sigtrap

(the relev. test file is lib/sigtrap.t

so I ran 'make install' which stalled, with msg:

Code:

Can't load module Encode, dynamic loading not available in this perl.

  (You may need to build a new perl executable which either supports

  dynamic loading or has the Encode module statically linked into it.)

 at lib/Pod/Man.pm line 34

Compilation failed in require at lib/Pod/Man.pm line 34.

BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at lib/Pod/Man.pm line 34.

Compilation failed in require at installman line 15.

BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at installman line 15.

make[1]: *** [install.man] Error 255

make[1]: Leaving directory `/share/MD0_DATA/misc/perl-5.14.2'

make: *** [install] Error 2

I have no clue. This only adds to my dislike of the language, regardless of how powerful it is.