Perl not compiling

Gantrep · 08-06-2003, 04:57 AM

I downloaded the latest stable.tar.gz, configured with:

sh Configure -des -Dusethreads -Duse5005threads

just fine, tried to make but the make failed with
make: *** [perlapi.o] Error 1

and many lines like
intrpvar.h:523: structure has no member named `Isort_RealCmp'

All complaining about not finding various members in the intrpvar.h struct.

I believe that my problem is the same as described here and here but there seem to be no helpful followups to these messages. To the second thread, somebody did respond with essentially "are you sure you did a make clean beforehand?" But of course I did.

What could be the problem/what else can I try?

Gantrep · 08-06-2003, 05:14 AM

I do have Perl 5.8.0 already installed, but I'm trying to get mod_perl for apache working, and its documentation in docs/user/install/install.pod says:

Quote:

You don't need to have threads-support enabled in Perl. If you do have
it, it B<must> be I<ithreads> and not I<5005threads>! If you have:

% perl5.8.0 -V:use5005threads
use5005threads='define'; Ok this isn't defined in mine, cool I think.

you must rebuild Perl without threads enabled or with
C<-Dusethreads>. Remember that threads-support slows things down and
on some platforms it's unstable (e.g., FreeBSD), so don't enable it
unless you really need it.

=item threaded MPMs

Require at least Perl version 5.8.0 with ithreads support
built-in. That means that it should report:

% perl5.8.0 -V:useithreads -V:usemultiplicity
useithreads='define';Neither are these.
usemultiplicity='define';

If that's not what you see rebuild Perl with C<-Dusethreads>.

Now that I look at that again, it seems like it's saying no threads are cool, and ithreads are cool, but not
5005threads. And it seems like I have no threads, so maybe I don't need to recompile perl after all. I'll assume multiplicity isn't necessary either?

I'm having problems with mod_perl and that is why I'm trying to recompile that. If the issue is mod_perl and not Perl itself, I'll start a new thread after banging my head against that for a while.