First let's make sure your kit is complete. Checking... Would you like to see the instructions? [n] Locating common programs... Checking compatibility between /bin/echo and builtin echo (if any)... Symbolic links are supported. Checking how to test for symbolic links... You can test for symbolic links with 'test -h'. Good, your tr supports [:lower:] and [:upper:] to convert case. Using [:upper:] and [:lower:] to convert case. 3b1 dynix isc_2 opus super-ux aix dynixptx linux os2 svr4 altos486 epix lynxos os390 svr5 amigaos esix4 machten posix-bc ti1500 apollo fps machten_2 powerux titanos atheos freebsd mint qnx ultrix_4 aux_3 genix mips rhapsody umips beos gnu mpc sco unicos bsdos greenhills mpeix sco_2_3_0 unicosmk convexos hpux ncr_tower sco_2_3_1 unisysdynix cxux i386 netbsd sco_2_3_2 utekv cygwin irix_4 newsos4 sco_2_3_3 uts darwin irix_5 next_3 sco_2_3_4 uwin dcosx irix_6 next_3_0 solaris_2 vmesa dec_osf irix_6_0 next_4 stellar vos dgux irix_6_1 nonstopux sunos_4_0 dos_djgpp isc openbsd sunos_4_1 Which of these apply, if any? [linux] You appear to have ELF support. I'll try to use it for dynamic loading. If dynamic loading doesn't work, read hints/linux.sh for further information. Operating system name? [linux] Operating system version? [2.4.2-2] Build a threading Perl? [n] Build Perl for multiplicity? [n] Use which C compiler? [cc] Checking for GNU cc in disguise and/or its version number... Now, how can we feed standard input to your C preprocessor... Directories to use for library searches? [/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib] What is the file extension used for shared libraries? [so] Build Perl for SOCKS? [n] Checking for optional libraries... What libraries to use? [-lnsl -lndbm -lgdbm -ldb -ldl -lm -lc -lcrypt -lutil] What optimizer/debugger flag should be used? [-g] Any additional cc flags? [-DDEBUGGING -fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include] Let me guess what the preprocessor flags are... Any additional ld flags (NOT including libraries)? [ -L/usr/local/lib] Checking your choice of C compiler and flags for coherency... Checking to see how big your integers are... Checking to see how well your C compiler groks the void type... Good. It appears to support void to the level perl5 wants. Checking to see how big your pointers are... Checking to see if you have long long... Checking to see how big your long longs are... Computing filename position in cpp output for #include directives... found. Checking to see if you have int64_t... Checking which 64-bit integer type we could use... We could use 'long long' for 64-bit integers. Try to use 64-bit integers, if available? [n] Try to use maximal 64-bit support, if available? [n] Checking for GNU C Library... nm probably won't work on the GNU C Library. Shall I use /usr/bin/nm to extract C symbols from the libraries? [n] sqrtl() found. Checking to see how big your double precision numbers are... Checking to see if you have long double... Checking to see how big your long doubles are... Checking how to print long doubles... modfl() found. Your modfl() seems okay for large values. Try to use long doubles if available? [n] Use the PerlIO abstraction layer? [y] What is your architecture name [i586-linux] Perlio selected. Installation prefix to use? (~name ok) [/usr/local] AFS does not seem to be running... What installation prefix should I use for installing files? (~name ok) [/usr/local] Getting the current patchlevel... Pathname where the private library files will reside? (~name ok) [/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.7.3] Where do you want to put the public architecture-dependent libraries? (~name ok) [/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.7.3/i586-linux] Binary compatibility with Perl 5.005? [y] Other username to test security of setuid scripts with? [none] Well, the recommended value is *not* secure. Does your kernel have *secure* setuid scripts? [n] Do you want to do setuid/setgid emulation? [n] found. found. Do you wish to attempt to use the malloc that comes with perl5? [n] Your system wants malloc to return 'void *', it would seem. Your system uses void free(), it would seem. Installation prefix to use for add-on modules and utilities? (~name ok) [/usr/local] Pathname for the site-specific library files? (~name ok) [/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.7.3] Pathname for the site-specific architecture-dependent library files? (~name ok) [/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.7.3/i586-linux] Do you want to configure vendor-specific add-on directories? [n] Colon-separated list of additional directories for perl to search? [none] Checking out function prototypes... Pathname where the public executables will reside? (~name ok) [/usr/local/bin] Install any extra modules (y or n)? [n] List of earlier versions to include in @INC? [5.7.2/i586-linux 5.7.2 5.6.1/i586-linux 5.6.1 5.6.0/i586-linux 5.6.0] Do you want to install perl as /usr/bin/perl? [n] NOT found. dlopen() found. Do you wish to use dynamic loading? [y] Source file to use for dynamic loading [ext/DynaLoader/dl_dlopen.xs] Any special flags to pass to cc -c to compile shared library modules? [-fpic] What command should be used to create dynamic libraries? [cc] Any special flags to pass to cc to create a dynamically loaded library? [-shared -L/usr/local/lib] Any special flags to pass to cc to use dynamic linking? [-rdynamic] Build a shared libperl.so (y/n) [n] System manual is in /usr/share/man/man1. Where do the main Perl5 manual pages (source) go? (~name ok) [/usr/local/man/man1] What suffix should be used for the main Perl5 man pages? [1] You can have filenames longer than 14 characters. Where do the perl5 library man pages (source) go? (~name ok) [/usr/local/man/man3] What suffix should be used for the perl5 library man pages? [3] Figuring out host name... Your host name appears to be "plover.com". Right? [y] What is your domain name? [.com] What is your e-mail address? [mjd@plover.com] Perl administrator e-mail address [mjd@plover.com] Do you want to install only the version-specific parts of perl? [y] What shall I put after the #! to start up perl ("none" to not use #!)? [/usr/local/bin/perl5.7.3] Where do you keep publicly executable scripts? (~name ok) [/usr/local/bin] Pathname where the add-on public executables should be installed? (~name ok) [/usr/local/bin] off_t found. Checking to see how big your file offsets are... fpos_t found. Checking the size of fpos_t... Try to understand large files, if available? [y] Rechecking to see how big your file offsets are... Rechecking the size of fpos_t... 16 bytes. qgcvt() found. gconvert NOT found. gcvt() found. I'll use gcvt to convert floats into a string. fwalk() NOT found. access() found. defines the *_OK access constants. accessx() NOT found. alarm() found. found. found. Testing to see if we should include , or both. We'll include . We'll include . Checking to see if your struct tm has tm_zone field... Checking to see if your struct tm has tm_gmtoff field... asctime_r() found. atolf() NOT found. atoll() found. Checking whether your compiler can handle __attribute__ ... bcmp() found. bcopy() found. found. getpgrp() found. You have to use getpgrp() instead of getpgrp(pid). setpgrp() found. You have to use setpgrp() instead of setpgrp(pid,pgrp). bzero() found. You have void (*signal())(). Checking whether your C compiler can cast large floats to int32. Checking whether your C compiler can cast negative float to unsigned. vprintf() found. Your vsprintf() returns (int). chown() found. chroot() found. chsize() NOT found. class() NOT found. Hmm... Looks like you have Berkeley networking support. socketpair() found. Checking the availability of certain socket constants... found. Checking to see if your system supports struct cmsghdr... Checking to see if your C compiler knows about "const"... crypt() found. found. crypt_r() found. ctermid_r() NOT found. ctime_r() found. cuserid() found. found. found. DBL_DIG found. dbmclose() found. NOT found. NOT found. difftime() found. found. Your directory entries are struct dirent. Your directory entry does not know about the d_namlen field. found. NOT found. dirfd() found. dlerror() found. found. What is the extension of dynamically loaded modules [so] Checking whether your dlsym() needs a leading underscore ... dlsym doesn't need a leading underscore. drand48_r() found. dup2() found. eaccess() NOT found. endgrent() found. found. endgrent_r() NOT found. endhostent() found. found. endhostent_r() NOT found. endnetent() found. endnetent_r() NOT found. endprotoent() found. endprotoent_r() NOT found. endpwent() found. found. endpwent_r() NOT found. endservent() found. endservent_r() NOT found. defines the O_* constants... and you have the 3 argument form of open(). Using instead of . found. We'll be including . found. We don't need to include if we include . Figuring out the flag used by open() for non-blocking I/O... Let's see what value errno gets from read() on a O_NONBLOCK file... fchdir() found. fchmod() found. fchown() found. fcntl() found. Well, your system has some sort of fd_set available... and you have the normal fd_set macros. fgetpos() found. finite() found. finitel() found. flock() found. fork() found. fp_class() NOT found. pathconf() found. fpathconf() found. fpclass() NOT found. fpclassify() NOT found. fpclassl() NOT found. Checking to see if you have fpos64_t... frexpl() found. found. found. Checking to see if your system supports struct fs_data... fseeko() found. fsetpos() found. fstatfs() found. statvfs() found. fstatvfs() found. fsync() found. ftello() found. getcwd() found. getespwnam() NOT found. getfsstat() NOT found. getgrent() found. getgrent_r() found. getgrgid_r() found. getgrnam_r() found. gethostbyaddr() found. gethostbyname() found. gethostent() found. gethostname() found. uname() found. Shall I ignore gethostname() from now on? [n] gethostbyaddr_r() found. gethostbyname_r() found. gethostent_r() found. getitimer() found. getlogin() found. getlogin_r() found. getmnt() NOT found. getmntent() found. getnetbyaddr() found. getnetbyname() found. getnetent() found. getnetbyaddr_r() found. getnetbyname_r() found. getnetent_r() found. getpagesize() found. getprotobyname() found. getprotobynumber() found. getprotoent() found. getpgid() found. getpgrp2() NOT found. getppid() found. getpriority() found. getprotobyname_r() found. getprotobynumber_r() found. getprotoent_r() found. getprpwnam() NOT found. getpwent() found. getpwent_r() found. getpwnam_r() found. getpwuid_r() found. getservbyname() found. getservbyport() found. getservent() found. getservbyname_r() found. getservbyport_r() found. getservent_r() found. getspnam() found. found. getspnam_r() found. gettimeofday() found. gmtime_r() found. hasmntopt() found. found. found. htonl() found. strchr() found. inet_aton() found. isascii() found. isfinite() NOT found. isinf() found. isnan() found. isnanl() found. killpg() found. lchown() found. LDBL_DIG found. link() found. localtime_r() found. localeconv() found. lockf() found. lstat() found. madvise() found. mblen() found. mbstowcs() found. mbtowc() found. memchr() found. memcmp() found. memcpy() found. memmove() found. memset() found. mkdir() found. mkdtemp() found. mkfifo() found. mkstemp() found. mkstemps() NOT found. mktime() found. found. mmap() found. and it returns (void *). mprotect() found. msgctl() found. msgget() found. msgsnd() found. msgrcv() found. You have the full msg*(2) library. Checking to see if your system supports struct msghdr... msync() found. munmap() found. nice() found. found. nl_langinfo() found. Checking to see how big your characters are (hey, you never know)... What is the size of a character (in bytes)? [1] Checking to see if your C compiler knows about "volatile"... Choosing the C types to be used for Perl's internal types... Checking how many bits of your UVs your NVs can preserve... Checking to see if you have off64_t... found. pause() found. pipe() found. poll() found. readlink() found. random_r() found. readdir() found. seekdir() found. telldir() found. rewinddir() found. readdir64_r() found. readdir_r() found. readv() found. recvmsg() found. rename() found. rmdir() found. found. Checking if your memcmp() can compare relative magnitude... select() found. semctl() found. semget() found. semop() found. You have the full sem*(2) library. You do not have union semun in . You can use union semun for semctl IPC_STAT. You can also use struct semid_ds* for semctl IPC_STAT. sendmsg() found. setegid() found. seteuid() found. setgrent() found. setgrent_r() NOT found. sethostent() found. sethostent_r() NOT found. setitimer() found. setlinebuf() found. setlocale() found. found. setlocale_r() NOT found. setnetent() found. setnetent_r() NOT found. setprotoent() found. setpgid() found. setpgrp2() NOT found. setpriority() found. setproctitle() NOT found. setprotoent_r() NOT found. setpwent() found. setpwent_r() NOT found. setregid() found. setresgid() found. setreuid() found. setresuid() found. setrgid() NOT found. setruid() NOT found. setservent() found. setservent_r() NOT found. setsid() found. setvbuf() found. NOT found. shmctl() found. shmget() found. shmat() found. and it returns (void *). shmdt() found. You have the full shm*(2) library. sigaction() found. sigprocmask() found. POSIX sigsetjmp found. sockatmark() NOT found. socks5_init() NOT found. srand48_r() found. srandom_r() found. found. Checking to see if your struct stat has st_blocks field... found. found. Checking to see if your system supports struct statfs... Checking to see if your struct statfs has f_flags field... Checking how std your stdio is... Checking to see what happens if we set the stdio ptr... Increasing ptr in your stdio decreases cnt by the same amount. Good. Checking how to access stdio streams by file descriptor number... I can't figure out how to access stdio streams by file descriptor number. strcoll() found. Checking to see if your C compiler can copy structs... strerror() found. strerror_r() found. strftime() found. strtod() found. strtol() found. strtold() found. strtoll() found. strtoq() found. strtoul() found. strtoull() found. strtouq() found. strxfrm() found. symlink() found. syscall() found. sysconf() found. system() found. tcgetpgrp() found. tcsetpgrp() found. time() found. time_t found. found. times() found. clock_t found. tmpnam_r() found. truncate() found. ttyname_r() found. tzname[] found. (Testing for character data alignment may crash the test. That's okay.) It seems that you must access character data in an aligned manner. ualarm() found. umask() found. unordered() NOT found. usleep() found. ustat() found. vfork() found. Do you still want to use vfork()? [n] closedir() found. Checking whether closedir() returns a status... wait4() found. waitpid() found. wcstombs() found. wctomb() found. writev() found. Checking alignment constraints... Doubles must be aligned on a how-many-byte boundary? [4] Checking to see how your cpp does stuff like catenate tokens... Oh! Smells like ANSI's been here. found. Checking Berkeley DB version ... I can't use Berkeley DB with your . I'll disable Berkeley DB. Removing unusable -ldb from library list libs = -lnsl -lndbm -lgdbm -ldl -lm -lc -lcrypt -lutil Looking for a random number function... Good, found drand48(). Use which function to generate random numbers? [drand48] Determining whether or not we are on an EBCDIC system... Nope, no EBCDIC, probably ASCII or some ISO Latin. Or UTF-8. Checking how to flush all pending stdio output... Your fflush(NULL) works okay for output streams. Let's see if it clobbers input pipes... fflush(NULL) seems to behave okay with input streams. Checking the size of gid_t... Checking the sign of gid_t... Checking how to print 64-bit integers... Checking the format strings to be used for Perl's internal types... Checking the format string to be used for gids... getgroups() found. setgroups() found. What type pointer is the second argument to getgroups() and setgroups()? [gid_t] Checking if your /usr/bin/make program sets $(MAKE)... mode_t found. found. found. We'll include to get va_dcl definition. It seems that you don't need va_copy(). size_t found. What pager is used on your system? [/usr/local/bin/less] pid_t found. Checking how to generate random libraries on your machine... Your select() operates on 32 bits at a time. Generating a list of signal names and numbers... Checking the size of size_t... Checking to see if you have socklen_t... NOT found. I'll be using ssize_t for functions returning a byte count. Your stdio uses signed chars. Checking the size of uid_t... Checking the sign of uid_t... Checking the format string to be used for uids... Which compiler compiler (byacc or yacc or bison -y) shall I use? [/usr/bin/byacc] NOT found. NOT found. NOT found. NOT found. found. found. NOT found. dbm_open() found. NOT found. found. found. NOT found. Guessing which symbols your C compiler and preprocessor define... tcsetattr() found. You have POSIX termios.h... good! found. NOT found. NOT found. NOT found. found. found. NOT found. found. NOT found. found. found. found. found. found. found. found. found. gdbm_open() found. Looking for extensions... What extensions do you wish to load dynamically? [B ByteLoader Cwd Data/Dumper Devel/DProf Devel/PPPort Devel/Peek Digest/MD5 Encode Fcntl File/Glob Filter/Util/Call GDBM_File I18N/Langinfo IO IPC/SysV List/Util MIME/Base64 NDBM_File Opcode POSIX PerlIO/Scalar PerlIO/Via SDBM_File Socket Storable Sys/Hostname Sys/Syslog Time/HiRes Unicode/Normalize XS/Typemap attrs re] What extensions do you wish to load statically? [none] Stripping down executable paths... Creating config.sh... Doing variable substitutions on .SH files... Extracting cflags (with variable substitutions) Extracting config.h (with variable substitutions) Extracting makeaperl (with variable substitutions) Extracting makedepend (with variable substitutions) Extracting makedir (with variable substitutions) Extracting Makefile (with variable substitutions) Extracting myconfig (with variable substitutions) Extracting pod/Makefile (with variable substitutions) Extracting Policy.sh (with variable substitutions) Extracting writemain (with variable substitutions) Extracting x2p/cflags (with variable substitutions) Extracting x2p/Makefile (with variable substitutions) Run make depend now? [y] sh ./makedepend MAKE=make make[1]: Entering directory `/data/src/bleadperl-build' sh writemain lib/auto/DynaLoader/DynaLoader.a > writemain.tmp sh mv-if-diff writemain.tmp perlmain.c echo av.c scope.c op.c doop.c doio.c dump.c hv.c mg.c reentr.c perl.c perly.c pp.c pp_hot.c pp_ctl.c pp_sys.c regcomp.c regexec.c utf8.c gv.c sv.c taint.c toke.c util.c deb.c run.c universal.c xsutils.c globals.c perlio.c perlapi.c numeric.c locale.c pp_pack.c pp_sort.c miniperlmain.c perlmain.c | tr ' ' '\n' >.clist make[1]: Leaving directory `/data/src/bleadperl-build' Finding dependencies for av.o. Finding dependencies for scope.o. Finding dependencies for op.o. Finding dependencies for doop.o. Finding dependencies for doio.o. Finding dependencies for dump.o. Finding dependencies for hv.o. Finding dependencies for mg.o. Finding dependencies for reentr.o. Finding dependencies for perl.o. Finding dependencies for perly.o. Finding dependencies for pp.o. Finding dependencies for pp_hot.o. Finding dependencies for pp_ctl.o. Finding dependencies for pp_sys.o. Finding dependencies for regcomp.o. Finding dependencies for regexec.o. Finding dependencies for utf8.o. Finding dependencies for gv.o. Finding dependencies for sv.o. Finding dependencies for taint.o. Finding dependencies for toke.o. Finding dependencies for util.o. Finding dependencies for deb.o. Finding dependencies for run.o. Finding dependencies for universal.o. Finding dependencies for xsutils.o. Finding dependencies for globals.o. Finding dependencies for perlio.o. Finding dependencies for perlapi.o. Finding dependencies for numeric.o. Finding dependencies for locale.o. Finding dependencies for pp_pack.o. Finding dependencies for pp_sort.o. Finding dependencies for miniperlmain.o. Finding dependencies for perlmain.o. make[1]: Entering directory `/data/src/bleadperl-build' echo Makefile.SH cflags.SH config_h.SH makeaperl.SH makedepend.SH makedir.SH myconfig.SH writemain.SH pod/Makefile.SH | tr ' ' '\n' >.shlist make[1]: Leaving directory `/data/src/bleadperl-build' Updating makefile... test -s perlmain.c && touch perlmain.c cd x2p; make depend make[1]: Entering directory `/data/src/bleadperl-build/x2p' sh ../makedepend MAKE=make make[2]: Entering directory `/data/src/bleadperl-build/x2p' echo hash.c str.c util.c walk.c | tr ' ' '\n' >.clist make[2]: Leaving directory `/data/src/bleadperl-build/x2p' Finding dependencies for hash.o. Finding dependencies for str.o. Finding dependencies for util.o. Finding dependencies for walk.o. make[2]: Entering directory `/data/src/bleadperl-build/x2p' echo Makefile.SH cflags.SH | tr ' ' '\n' >.shlist make[2]: Leaving directory `/data/src/bleadperl-build/x2p' Updating makefile... make[1]: Leaving directory `/data/src/bleadperl-build/x2p' Now you must run 'make'. If you compile perl5 on a different machine or from a different object directory, copy the Policy.sh file from this object directory to the new one before you run Configure -- this will help you with most of the policy defaults.