Re: building a dynamically linked Perl 5.6.1 on HPUX 11.0

[Lincoln A. Baxter]

Thank you for the suggestion.   I will be working on a new version of 
the README this weekend (Tim Bunce will be releasing a new DBD-Oracle 
soon), so your  message is auspicious.  I will add this.  

But let me ask you:

You followed the README, but used gcc instead of /opt/softbench/bin/cc 
and it worked?  

Can you repeat it?  If so can you provide a script or make file that 
does it?  If you can, "you will be helping to save the world".

At the very least, can you send me your output of perl -V?

Thanks, oh.. and I'm glad you found it helpful.... so your're welcome.

With regards,

Lincoln

Michael Schuh wrote:

> Greetings all,
>
> I recently (like, 40 minutes ago) installed Perl 5.6.1 on an HPUX 11.0 system.  As my 
> goal is to interact with an Oracle database, I followed Lincoln Baxter's README.hpux 
> (THANK YOU!) and tried to build a dynamically linked version of Perl.  However, in 
> earlier attempts (stretching back over the last week or so) it died in the linking stage, 
> admonishing me that a file was created without position independent code and advising me 
> that I should recompile using the "+z" flag.  As I was using gcc (which has no 
> +z flag) this was very confusing until I noticed that the file to which the message was 
> referring was libgdbm, which I had built just last week, and realized that I was using 
> HPUX's ld ('cuz the GNU binutils ld won't work on HPUX) and this ld doesn't know about 
> gcc.
>
> Well, it was simple enough to fix: go back to the libgdm build and add -fPIC to 
> the complier options.  After that, Perl built and loaded just like the 
> documentation says it should.
>
> My "bug"?  It would have helped me, I think, if the three sets of documentation were more 
> blatant about building everything PIC.  The configure/build process for libgdbm does not have an 
> obvious method to specify PIC, and neither the Perl documentation nor Lincoln Baxter's README.hpux 
> remind the user that all files in a dynamic build need to be PIC.  Yes, it's "well known" 
> (and, if I had been asked, would have said as much...), but a mild reminder might have helped me.
>
> Also, in the Makefile for libgdbm:
>
> 30c30
> < CFLAGS = -O -fPIC
> ---
>
> > CFLAGS = -O  
>
> although this is specific to gcc.
>
> As is often the case in the software biz, just a few characters can make all 
> the difference.
>
> Thank you, and thank you very much for various contributions.
>
> --
> Mike Schuh