Are you using the packages system to compile perl?

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On Sun, 18 Jan 1998, T. Sean (Theo) Schulze wrote:

> Date: Sun, 18 Jan 1998 11:06:18 -0500
> From: "T. Sean (Theo) Schulze" <tschulze@compuserve.com>
> To: Port-mac68k <PORT-MAC68K@NetBSD.ORG>
> Subject: Son of "compiling perl"
> 
> Well, the upgrade to NetBSD 1.3-RELEASE seems to have helped my compile 
> of perl a little bit.  Whereas it failed tests on two test scripts 
> before, it only fails on one now.  That one is the lib/odbm test.  This 
> is also the test that was specifically mentioned as being the one the 
> upgrade to 1.3 R would fix.  The message I get is:
> 
> lib/odbm....../usr/libexec/ld.so: Undefined symbol "_dbminit" called from 
> perl:../lib/auto/ODBM_File
> /ODBM_File.so at 0x410c1c4
> dubious
>           Test returned status 1 (wstat 256, 0x100)
> 
> [it then goes on to other test scripts and ends with:]
> 
> Failed Test    Status    Wstat     Total     Fail      Failed    List of 
> failed
> ___________________________________________________________________________
> _______________
> lib/odbm.t          1      256       ??       ??            %     ??
> Failed 1/153 test scripts, 99.35% okay.  0/4839 subtests failed 100.00% 
> okay.
> 
> Anyone else seen this?  I am trying to compile perl5.004_04, which is to 
> my knowledge, the latest release.  I still have 5.004_03 made here on my 
> drive (the first one to fail).  I will try to see if the upgrade to 1.3 
> RELEASE gets it to pass completely.
> 
> Any ideas of libraries or other software packages I could get that would 
> increase my chances of a good compile due to libraries/includes they 
> would add to my system?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Sean.
> 
> 
>                  T. Sean (Theo) Schulze
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