[gentoo-dev] Perl Guru's? Having isssues recompiling perl

[Paul Varner]

Are there any perl guru's on this list?

I having problems recompiling perl on my Gentoo box and I'm trying to
determine what the problem is and how to fix it.

Basically, I decided to recompile the software on my box to use the -O2
optimization flag instead of -O3.  However, whenever I do an 'emerge
=dev-lang/perl-5.8.0-r12', the compiling process ends up crashing my system.

I have narrowed it down to the 'make test' portion of the process and the
test that is crashing the box is lib/Config.  When perl runs that test it
appears to go into an infinite loop allocating memory, eventually the box
runs out of swap space and the kernel starts killing off processes and I end
up having to reboot the box.  As as test I temporarily created a 2 gig swap
file and the test still ran out of memory.  I tried changing my cflags back
to the original setiing and I still get the same results.

By running the test manually from the /var/tmp/portage/perl*/work directory,
I have determined that the test doesn't like the Config.pm file that was
configured.  If I copy over my existing Config.pm and run the test manually
it works, but if I use the one created during the configure and compile
process, I get the problem listed above.  A diff of the two Config.pm files
doesn't show anything that jumps out at me.

I have google'd high and low and I can't find anything with somebody having
a similar issue

I'm hesitant to create a bug in bugzilla at this time as I don't have any
other information to determine problem.  So if there is anyone that has any
pointers on where to start debugging further, I would highly appreciate it.
I can supply copies of the Config.pm files on request.  This one is really
bugging me as there should be no reason for perl to compile successfully at
install and then fail to compile properly on the same box.

Regards,
Paul



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