Re: Cannot compile Perl-5.8.6

[David Rhodus <sdrhodus@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 12:26:32 +0900, YONETANI Tomokazu
<qhwt+dfly@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 11:41:43PM +0000, Christopher Scofield wrote:
> >
> > Anybody know what's going on here? I'm having problems installing other
> > programs as well and think I just have something missing. I get this on the
> > first make command witn perl 5.8.6...
> >
> > # make
> > `sh  cflags "optimize='-O'" toke.o`  toke.c
> >           CCCMD =  cc -DPERL_CORE -c -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -
> > I/usr/local/include -O  -Wall
> > toke.c: In function `S_scan_formline':
> > toke.c:7625: invalid operands to binary +
> > toke.c:7625: invalid lvalue in unary `&'
> > toke.c:7625: invalid lvalue in unary `&'
> > *** Error code 1
> >
> > Stop in /usr/dist/perl-5.8.6.
>           ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Is there a reason you can't use the perl port (/usr/ports/lang/perl5.8)?
> The Configure script and a few other files don't know about us well, so
> you have to teach them if you really have to install perl from the tarball,
> with the patch like attached(only lightly tested).
> Also note that FreeBSD port version passes many options to the Configure
> script; try:
>   $ cd /usr/ports/lang/perl5.8 && make -V CONFIGURE_ARGS
> 

But, really...  Who wants to continue to use the fbsd ports system
since Dfly is not supported under it.  I recommend switching over to
pkgsrc, because DFly is a support platform under pkgsrc.

-- 
                                            -David
                                            Steven David Rhodus
                                            <drhodus@xxxxxxxxxxx>