Re: PL/Perl and Perl 5.8 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 00:10, Neil Conway wrote:
> 
> 
> Well, I'm not happy with defining _GNU_SOURCE, but I don't agree that
> just saying "it's a Perl problem" is a good answer. That may well be
> the case, but it doesn't change the fact that a lot of people are
> running 5.8.0, and will probably continue to do so during the 7.3
> lifecycle[1]. We work around braindamage on other systems -- strictely
> speaking, we could say "the snprintf() bug with 64-bit Solaris is a
> Sun libc problem", for example.
> 
If you want to try it on my UnixWare 7.1.3 box, I can create an account
for you.  It has PERL 5.8.0 and a NON-gcc compiler.  PL/Perl from 7.2.2
works fine with it. 

I don't have the time, but can give anyone that wants it an account. 

(Peter Eisentraut already has such, and I'll create one for any that
want one).

The box is a 1.7Ghz P-4, and is on a 768K/768K DSL line.

LER
> Perhaps we can include a test for this in configure? (i.e. if
> --with-perl is specified, try compiling a simple XS file that exhibits
> the problem; if it fails, try it with -D_GNU_SOURCE).
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Neil
> 
> [1] Note that I'm assuming that PL/Perl is broken with 5.8.0 on
> systems other than mine, and another person's on IRC who reported the
> problem to begin with. Can other people confirm the problem?
> 
> -- 
> Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com> || PGP Key ID: DB3C29FC
> 
> Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 8 subversion 0) configuration:
>   Platform:
>     osname=linux, osvers=2.4.19, archname=i386-linux-thread-multi
>     uname='linux cyberhq 2.4.19 #1 smp sun aug 4 11:30:45 pdt 2002 i686 unknown
                                                                                                          unknown
gnulinux'
 
>     config_args='-Dusethreads -Duselargefiles -Dccflags=-DDEBIAN -Dcccdlflags=-f
                                                                                                          PIC
-Darchname=i386-linux-Dprefix=/usr -Dprivlib=/usr/share/perl/5.8.0 -Darchli

b=/usr/lib/perl/5.8.0-Dvendorprefix=/usr -Dvendorlib=/usr/share/perl5 -Dvendora

rch=/usr/lib/perl5-Dsiteprefix=/usr/local -Dsitelib=/usr/local/share/perl/5.8.0

-Dsitearch=/usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.0-Dman1dir=/usr/share/man/man1 -Dman3dir=/u       !   
 
>
                 sr/share/man/man3 -Dman1ext=1 -Dman3ext=3perl -Dpager=/usr/bin/sensible-pager -U

afs -Ud_csh -Uusesfio -Uusenm -Duseshrplib -Dlibperl=libperl.so.5.8.0 -Dd_dosuid
                                                                                                         -des'
 
>     hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
>     usethreads=define use5005threads=undef useithreads=define usemultiplicity=de
                                                                                                          fine
 
>     useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef
>     use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef
>     usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
>   Compiler:
>     cc='cc', ccflags ='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DDEBIAN -fno-strict-aliasing

-I/usr/local/include-D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64',
 
>     optimize='-O3',
>     cppflags='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DDEBIAN -fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/lo
                                                                                                          cal/include'
 
>     ccversion='', gccversion='2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease)', gccosandvers
                                                                                                          =''
 
>     intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234
>     d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
>     ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize
                                                                                                          =8
 
>     alignbytes=4, prototype=define
>   Linker and Libraries:
>     ld='cc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib'
>     libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib
>     libs=-lgdbm -ldb -ldl -lm -lpthread -lc -lcrypt
>     perllibs=-ldl -lm -lpthread -lc -lcrypt
>     libc=/lib/libc-2.2.5.so, so=so, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.so.5.8.0
>     gnulibc_version='2.2.5'
>   Dynamic Linking:
>     dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-rdynamic'
>     cccdlflags='-fPIC', lddlflags='-shared -L/usr/local/lib'
> 
> 
> Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): 
>   Compile-time options: MULTIPLICITY USE_ITHREADS USE_LARGE_FILES PERL_IMPLICIT_
                                                                                                          CONTEXT
 
>   Built under linux
>   Compiled at Sep 14 2002 17:36:21
>   @INC:
>     /etc/perl
>     /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.0
>     /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.0
>     /usr/lib/perl5
>     /usr/share/perl5
>     /usr/lib/perl/5.8.0
>     /usr/share/perl/5.8.0
>     /usr/local/lib/site_perl
> 
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