Re: [Rlib-users] problem detecting perl

[Bob D. <bd...@si...>]

On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 18:07 +0200, Treeve Jelbert wrote:
> on my system the perl headers are installed 
> in /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.4/i686-linux-thread-multi/CORE
> and modules in /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.4/i686-linux-thread-multi
> 
> I ran configure as follows:
> 
> ./configure --prefix=/usr
> --with-perl-include=/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.4/i686-linux-thread-multi/CORE 
> --with-perl-module=/usr/lib/perl5//site_perl/5.8.4/-i686linux-thread-multi 
> --with-pythonver=2.3 --with-java=no --disable-php --disable-mysql 
> --disable-postgre
> 
> checking for PERL files... configure: WARNING: PERL bindings are not going to 
> be used
> 
> line 272 of configure.in looks suspicious to me
> PERL_EXTENSION_DIR=$dir2
> I don't see where dir2 is set, but that does not explain my problem
> 

Perl is unsupported at this time.  It will be available in the 1.4
release.

> 
> also, an unrelated question. Why does configure check for c++ and fortran when 
> they are not needed by rlib?
> 

Dunno.. autoconf hell

> 
> Finally, gcc-3.4.1 gives the following warning
> 
> reportgen.c: In function `rlib_init_variables':
> reportgen.c:1044: warning: use of cast expressions as lvalues is deprecated
> reportgen.c:1047: warning: use of cast expressions as lvalues is deprecated
> reportgen.c:1050: warning: use of cast expressions as lvalues is deprecated
> reportgen.c:1053: warning: use of cast expressions as lvalues is deprecated
> reportgen.c:1057: warning: use of cast expressions as lvalues is deprecated
> reportgen.c:1060: warning: use of cast expressions as lvalues is deprecated
> 


Yea.. kinda sucks.  I wish the gcc guys didn't do that.  Someone just
needs to tweak the RLIB Macros around and add another pointer to the
function calls.. it's an easy task.  If no one does it Chet or I will
get around to it

- bob