Compiling Perl on SMP 5.1-RELEASE box

Brendan Harris bharris at stotch.com
Fri Oct 10 02:46:46 PDT 2003


On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 05:38:30PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 10:04:24AM -0700, Brendan Harris wrote:
> > I figured this was more appropriate for freebsd-hackers than freebsd-questions.
> > 
> > Here's the deal.  I'm trying to compile Perl 5.8.1 on a FreeBSD 5.1
> > SMP box.  The kernel is compiled with SMP, APIC and npx support.
> > GCC is version 3.3.1, compiled with POSIX thread support.
> 
> 1) Please wrap your lines at 70 characters so your emails may be
> easily read.

Sorry about that.

> 2) This should probably be raised with the perl people instead,
> because it looks like a code bug in perl (or possibly user error).
> FYI, the details of the FreeBSD kernel configuration are not relevant.

After doing some research online, it seems like a kernel optimization error 
with threads.

And it looks more like a GCC problem to me, rather than a perl code bug.  

I think it's a problem with the way I configured GCC.  I'll look into
 it more, but thanks for the help anyway.

--Brendan


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