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

[William Pechter <pechter@gmail.com>]

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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

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pechter-at-gmail.com  http://xkcd.com/705/