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22 years ago From lbaxter@NetReach.Net
Thank you for the suggestion. I will be working on a new version of the README this weekend (Tim Bunce will be releasing a new DBD-Oracle soon)\, so your message is auspicious. I will add this.
But let me ask you:
You followed the README\, but used gcc instead of /opt/softbench/bin/cc and it worked?
Can you repeat it? If so can you provide a script or make file that does it? If you can\, "you will be helping to save the world".
At the very least\, can you send me your output of perl -V?
Thanks\, oh.. and I'm glad you found it helpful.... so your're welcome.
With regards\,
Lincoln
Michael Schuh wrote:
Greetings all\,
I recently (like\, 40 minutes ago) installed Perl 5.6.1 on an HPUX 11.0 system. As my goal is to interact with an Oracle database\, I followed Lincoln Baxter's README.hpux (THANK YOU!) and tried to build a dynamically linked version of Perl. However\, in earlier attempts (stretching back over the last week or so) it died in the linking stage\, admonishing me that a file was created without position independent code and advising me that I should recompile using the "+z" flag. As I was using gcc (which has no +z flag) this was very confusing until I noticed that the file to which the message was referring was libgdbm\, which I had built just last week\, and realized that I was using HPUX's ld ('cuz the GNU binutils ld won't work on HPUX) and this ld doesn't know about gcc.
Well\, it was simple enough to fix: go back to the libgdm build and add -fPIC to the complier options. After that\, Perl built and loaded just like the documentation says it should.
My "bug"? It would have helped me\, I think\, if the three sets of documentation were more blatant about building everything PIC. The configure/build process for libgdbm does not have an obvious method to specify PIC\, and neither the Perl documentation nor Lincoln Baxter's README.hpux remind the user that all files in a dynamic build need to be PIC. Yes\, it's "well known" (and\, if I had been asked\, would have said as much...)\, but a mild reminder might have helped me.
Also\, in the Makefile for libgdbm:
30c30 \< CFLAGS = -O -fPIC ---
CFLAGS = -O
although this is specific to gcc.
As is often the case in the software biz\, just a few characters can make all the difference.
Thank you\, and thank you very much for various contributions.
-- Mike Schuh
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