[Persistentperl-users] Problem with getting PersistentPerl 2.21 working on HP/UX using GCC

[Martin H. <mho...@de...>]

I am trying to build PersistenPerl 2.21 against perl 5.8.0 on a HP/UX 11.0 
machine (PARISC 1.1  CPU).

The C compiler I am using is gcc version 3.2 for PARISC (32 bit version).

At first I had the same problem as Jess with the '-Wl,-E' linker options. 
However I solved this not by deleting them but by tracking down in 
src/PersistentMake.pl line 337    

$remove_libs \$(LD) -o ${my_name_val} \$(OBJECT) $ldopts

I made into

$remove_libs \$(CC) -o ${my_name_val} \$(OBJECT) $ldopts

As the C compiler knows to strip the '-Wl' off the front of the argument 
before passing the -E to the linker.

This one tweak means that PersistentPerl builds and links. However I get semi 
random failures in the test suite.


I have already raised a bug in sourceforge about this - see 
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=681085&group_id=62848&atid=502016

In short I get "temp file corrupt" messages and some of the tests fail, but 
not the same ones each time, which leads me to believe the problem is 
something more deep rooted than what the tests are testing for.

Has anyone managed to get PersistentPerl working using the HP Ansi C compiler? 
I would like to know if the problem I am seeing is just because I am using 
GCC rather than the 'official' (but expensive) compiler.

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