Perl5.8 Won't Build

[William Bentley]

Thank you for your response. I have plenty of disk space. FYI, I dont 
think it matters, but I am running this in a jail and on ZFS. So I ran 
the make clean and make configure and here is what happen at the make 
configure:

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# make configure
===>  Vulnerability check disabled, database not found
===>  Found saved configuration for perl-5.8.9
===>  Extracting for perl-5.8.9
=> MD5 Checksum OK for perl/perl-5.8.9.tar.bz2.
=> SHA256 Checksum OK for perl/perl-5.8.9.tar.bz2.
=> MD5 Checksum OK for perl/BSDPAN-5.8.9.tar.bz2.
=> SHA256 Checksum OK for perl/BSDPAN-5.8.9.tar.bz2.
=> MD5 Checksum OK for perl/defined-or-5.8.9.bz2.
=> SHA256 Checksum OK for perl/defined-or-5.8.9.bz2.
===>  Patching for perl-5.8.9
===>  Applying distribution patches for perl-5.8.9
1 out of 5 hunks failed--saving rejects to opcode.h.rej
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/lang/perl5.8.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/lang/perl5.8.

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# ls -l work/perl-5.8.9/*akefile*
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  48842 Dec  6 12:11 work/perl-5.8.9/Makefile.SH
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel   4472 Sep 22 09:48 work/perl-5.8.9/Makefile.micro

# ls -l work/perl-5.8.9/*core*
ls: work/perl-5.8.9/*core*: No such file or directory

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Anton Berezin wrote:
> William,
>
> On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 12:47:25PM -0500, William Bentley wrote:
>   
>> Here it is:
>>
>> #make
>> ===>  Vulnerability check disabled, database not found
>>     
> ...
>   
>> Checking if your /usr/bin/make program sets $(MAKE)...
>> mode_t found.
>> Bus error (core dumped)
>> It seems that va_copy() or similar will be needed.
>> size_t found.
>>     
> ...
>   
>> ===>  Building for perl-5.8.9
>> make: cannot open makefile.
>> *** Error code 2
>>     
>
> Strange.  As far as I can tell, the configure output looks entirely normal,
> except the coredump part and the fact that there apparently is no makefile.
>
> Can you try and find out what exactly dumps core?  After "make clean" and
> "make configure", what would be the output of
>
>   cd /usr/ports/lang/perl5.8
>   ls -l work/perl-5.8.9/*akefile*
>   ls -l work/perl-5.8.9/*core*
>
> ?
>
> I assume the disk is good and that you have enough space on it?
>
> \Anton.
>