Re: Problem building perl on ipfire 2.x on Ubuntu 64 bit...Another try two years later

[Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org>]

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Hello,

are you trying to build the toolchain here?

If so, you can just download a pre-compiled one with:

  ./make.sh gettoolchain

Sometimes it is a bit tricky to compile them on various host systems.

Best,
-Michael

On Wed, 2017-08-09 at 19:24 -0400, William Pechter wrote:
> A couple of years ago I reported the issue but had to drop it due to
> a
> lack of time on my part.
> 
> Perl 5.12.3 fails to build on my Ubuntu 17.04 system (was upgraded
> from
> the 14.04 I was using a couple of years ago.
> perl                            [     5.12.3 ]            [       92
> ] [
> FAIL ]
> 
>     Processing Jamo.txt
>     Processing UnicodeData.txt
>     Processing ArabicShaping.txt
>     Processing Blocks.txt
>     Processing PropList.txt
>     Processing SpecialCasing.txt
>     Processing LineBreak.txt
>     Processing EastAsianWidth.txt
>     Processing CompositionExclusions.txt
>     Processing BidiMirroring.txt
>     Processing CaseFolding.txt
>     Processing DCoreProperties.txt
>     Processing Scripts.txt
>     Processing DNormalizationProps.txt
>     Processing HangulSyllableType.txt
>     Processing auxiliary/WordBreakProperty.txt
>     Processing auxiliary/GraphemeBreakProperty.txt
>     Processing auxiliary/GCBTest.txt
>     Processing auxiliary/SentenceBreakProperty.txt
>     Processing NamedSequences.txt
>     Processing NameAliases.txt
>     Finishing processing Unicode properties
>     Compiling Perl properties
>     Creating Perl synonyms
>     Writing tables
>     Making pod file
>     Making test script
>     Updating 'mktables.lst'
>     make[1]: Leaving directorroot(a)S20:/usr/ipfire-2.x#
> 
> tail /usr/ipfire-2.x/log/_build.base.log
> 
> Processing NameAliases.txt
> Finishing processing Unicode properties
> Compiling Perl properties
> Creating Perl synonyms
> Writing tables
> Making pod file
> Making test script
> Updating 'mktables.lst'
> make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/perl-5.12.3'
> make: *** [perl:85: /usr/src/log/perl-5.12.3] Error 2
> root(a)S20:/usr/ipfire-2.x#
> root(a)S20:/usr/ipfire-2.x# tail /usr/ipfire-2.x/log/_build.base.log
> Processing NameAliases.txt
> Finishing processing Unicode properties
> Compiling Perl properties
> Creating Perl synonyms
> Writing tables
> Making pod file
> Making test script
> Updating 'mktables.lst'
> make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/perl-5.12.3'
> make: *** [perl:85: /usr/src/log/perl-5.12.3] Error 2
> 
> I found the last referenced mktables.lst in lib/unicore and it exists
> and seems ok.
> 
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root   14334 Aug  9 14:43 mktables.lst
> 
> How do figure where in the perl makefile is the failing part?
> 
> In  ipfire-2.x/build/usr/src/perl-5.12.3 is a perl binary which
> executes.
> 
> How do figure where in the perl makefile is the failing part?
> 
> root(a)S20:/usr/ipfire-2.x/build/usr/src/perl-5.12.3# ./perl -v
> 
> This is perl 5, version 12, subversion 3 (v5.12.3) built for
> x86_64-linux-thread-multi
> 
> Copyright 1987-2010, Larry Wall
> 
> Perl may be copied only under the terms of either the Artistic
> License
> or the
> GNU General Public License, which may be found in the Perl 5 source
> kit.
> 
> Complete documentation for Perl, including FAQ lists, should be found
> on
> this system using "man perl" or "perldoc perl".  If you have access
> to the
> Internet, point your browser at http://www.perl.org/, the Perl Home
> Page
> 
> -- Digital had it then. Don't you wish you could buy it now!
> pechter-at-gmail.com http://xkcd.com/705/
> 

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