Bug 69969

Summary:	CPAN upgrade to perl5.8 errored out
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	steve vaitl <docv>
Component:	perl	Assignee:	Chip Turner <cturner>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Description steve vaitl 2002-07-27 03:32:38 UTC

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Description of problem:
when attempting to upgrade perl from CPAN shell I got the following error;

h  cflags "optimize='-O2'" sv.o  sv.c
	  CCCMD =  cc -DPERL_CORE -c -fno-strict-aliasing
-I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -O2 -Wall
h  cflags "optimize='-O2'" pp.o  pp.c
	  CCCMD =  cc -DPERL_CORE -c -fno-strict-aliasing
-I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -O2 -Wall
h  cflags "optimize='-O2'" scope.o  scope.c
	  CCCMD =  cc -DPERL_CORE -c -fno-strict-aliasing
-I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -O2 -Wall
h  cflags "optimize='-O2'" pp_ctl.o  pp_ctl.c
	  CCCMD =  cc -DPERL_CORE -c -fno-strict-aliasing
-I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -O2 -Wall
h  cflags "optimize='-O2'" pp_sys.o  pp_sys.c
	  CCCMD =  cc -DPERL_CORE -c -fno-strict-aliasing
-I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -O2 -Wall
pp_sys.c: In function erl_pp_sselect':
pp_sys.c:1103: Internal error: Segmentation fault.
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make: *** [pp_sys.o] Error 1
  /usr/bin/make  -- NOT OK
Running make test
  Can't test without successful make
Running make install
  make had returned bad status, install seems impossible

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How reproducible:
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Comment 1 Chip Turner 2002-07-30 15:56:02 UTC

You were trying to upgrade your version of perl via CPAN only?  This is not
supported; please use RPMs provided by Red Hat if you wish to upgrade your perl
installation.  Also note that if you are going from a 5.00503 or 5.6.0 or 5.6.1
perl that you will break binary compatibility, if you try to go to 5.8.0.

Comment 2 steve vaitl 2002-07-30 16:24:11 UTC

Yes, I was upgrading via CPAN only. As I was installing other perl mods (via
CPAN), CPAN told me I should do this, it even told me how to upgrade via CPAN.
Perhaps the folks at CPAN should be informed that one should not upgrade perl
that way?!?! ;-]

Comment 3 steve vaitl 2002-07-30 16:25:20 UTC

BTW, Thanks for the reply!!!!

Comment 4 Chip Turner 2002-07-30 17:45:49 UTC

you may want to download a new CPAN module separately; this is a known issue in
older CPANs.  Newer ones should do the right thing and not try to recompile your
version of perl :)