Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 88852
Errors compiling CDB_File CPAN module
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:53:03 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030225 Description of problem: When compiling the CDB_File module it comes back with a linker error saying "report_uninit" cannot be linked. Searching the source and the perl header files, I find the following lines in /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi-CORE/embed.h which seem to be where it should be defined: 23 #if !defined(PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT) 1121 #ifdef PERL_CORE 1122 #define report_uninit Perl_report_uninit 1123 #endif 2478 #else 3551 #ifdef PERL_CORE 3552 #define report_uninit() Perl_report_uninit(aTHX) 3553 #endif 4901 #endif /* PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT */ testing shows that PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT is defined, and PERL_CORE is not defined, while compiling this module. i tried adding "#define PERL_CORE" to the .xs file and it added a bunch of other errors- my guess is that defining this constant tells the headers that you are building perl itself, but i don't know for sure (since i've never done perl xs programming before.) how is it possible to get the proper definition of "report_uninit" for the module? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): perl.5.8.0-88 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. perl -MCPAN -e 'install CDB_File' Actual Results: Linker error during "make test" phase: Can't load '/usr/local/.cpan/build/CDB_File-0.93/blib/arch/auto/CDB_File/CDB_File.so' for module CDB_File: /usr/local/.cpan/build/CDB_File-0.93/blib/arch/auto/CDB_File/CDB_File.so: undefined symbol: report_uninit at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/DynaLoader.pm line 229. Expected Results: Module should have compiled, tested, and installed cleanly. This worked with RH7.3 and RH8.0, but broke under phoebe and now with RH9. Additional info:
Try setting LANG=C
been there, done that... that much was necessary just to get it to build a proper Makefile. this is a problem which relates to either libc-2.3 or perl-5.8, both of which were changed between RH8.0 and RH9. i have emailed matt sergeant (who "owns" the perl module as of 0.92) about this but i haven't heard anything back from him.