Problems installing perl5.6.0, perl5.00405 on AIX

p5pRT commented 24 years ago

Migrated from rt.perl.org#4622 (status was 'rejected')

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p5pRT commented 24 years ago

From Number_10_Ox@rocketmail.com

Hiya.

I'm attempting to install both Perl 5.6 and/or Perl 5.4.5 on an AIX box running AIX 4.1.2. They both compile with no problems: they fail a few tests\, but those still result in 99% functionality. What blows up is the install.

Perl 5.4.5 reports an out of memory error upon installation\, like so:

root@appf ***** /netadmin/temp/perl5.004_05
28 % ./perl installperl -n cp perl /usr/local/bin/perl5.00405 chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/perl5.00405 Out of memory!

('top' shows 1400MB free virtual memory\, 124MB free real memory\, etc.)

I have no idea what errors Perl 5.6.0 reports because about 1/5th of the way through the install program my screen output gets corrupted in some fashion. Instead of normal output I start seeing the higher-level ASCII characters. This behavior continues even when the 5.6.0 install program stops running: my shell prompt from then on is in funky characters\, as is anything I type. I tried several different terminal emulators\, including a fairly faithful xterm emulator: the behavior continues.

The output of myconfig from 5.4.5 is included below. Output of myconfig 5.6.0 can be provided upon request.

Any help will be most sincerely appreciated.

Thanks in advance\, ---Elliot Smorodinsky

root@appf ***** /netadmin/temp/perl5.004_05
29 % ./myconfig

Summary of my perl5 (5.0 patchlevel 4 subversion 5) configuration: Platform: osname=aix\, osvers=4.2.1.0\, archname=aix uname='aix appf 2 4 00032636a100 ' hint=recommended\, useposix=true\, d_sigaction=define bincompat3=n useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef Compiler: cc='gcc'\, optimize='-O'\, gccversion=2.95.2 19991024 (release) cppflags='-D_ALL_SOURCE -D_ANSI_C_SOURCE -D_POSIX_SOURCE -I/usr/local/include' ccflags ='-D_ALL_SOURCE -D_ANSI_C_SOURCE -D_POSIX_SOURCE -I/usr/local/include' stdchar='unsigned char'\, d_stdstdio=define\, usevfork=false intsize=4\, longsize=4\, ptrsize=\, doublesize= alignbytes=8\, usemymalloc=n\, prototype=define Linker and Libraries: ld='ld'\, ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib' libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib /usr/ccs/lib libs=-lnsl -ldbm -ldl -lld -lm -lc -lbsd -lPW libc=\, so=a useshrplib=false\, libperl=libperl.a Dynamic Linking: dlsrc=dl_aix.xs\, dlext=so\, d_dlsymun=undef\, ccdlflags='-Xlinker -bE:perl.exp' cccdlflags='-fpic'\, lddlflags='-bhalt:4 -bM:SRE -bI:$(PERL_INC)/perl.exp -bE:$(BASEEXT).exp -b noentry -lc -L/usr/local/lib'

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p5pRT commented 13 years ago

From tammer@tammer.net

Hello\, there is no activity on this report since over 10 years. I think that this ticket should be closed.

Bye Rainer

p5pRT commented 12 years ago

From @dmcbride

"Out of memory!" is generally a sign that your ulimits are set too low. I usually have that problem when I first get on to an AIX box - ask your sysadmin to bump up your ulimits for memory usage\, etc.

Generally\, as a dev\, I manage to get them all set to unlimited\, but if your sysadmin won't go for that\, you could try incrementally increasing values until it works.

As a *system* problem rather than a *perl* problem\, I vote to close this report.

p5pRT commented 12 years ago

@cpansprout - Status changed from 'open' to 'rejected'

Perl / perl5