LPM: perl 5.6 released

[Rich Bowen]

Janine Ladick wrote:
> 
> Yay!
> 
> Is this the release that will have a compiler?

Um, sort of ...

[rbowen at localhost /tmp]$ cat test.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl
print "Hello World\n";

[rbowen at localhost /tmp]$ perl test.pl
Hello World

(so far, so good)

[rbowen at localhost /tmp]$ perlcc test.pl

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Compiling test.pl:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Making C(test.pl.c) for test.pl!
perl -I/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.0/i586-linux
-I/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.0 -I/usr
/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/i586-linux
-I/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6
.0 -I/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl -I. -MB::Stash -c  test.pl
perl -I/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.0/i586-linux
-I/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.0 -I/usr
/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/i586-linux
-I/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6
.0 -I/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl -I. -MO=C,-umain,-uattributes,-uDB
test.pl
Starting compile
Walking tree
Prescan
Saving methods
Bootstrap attributes test.pl
Writing output
Loaded B
Loaded IO
Loaded Fcntl
test.pl syntax OK
Compiling C(test) for test.pl!
perl -I/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.0/i586-linux
-I/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.0 -I/usr
/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/i586-linux
-I/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6
.0 -I/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl -I. /tmp/test.pl.tst
cc -fno-strict-aliasing -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 
-I/usr/local
/lib/perl5/5.6.0/i586-linux/CORE -o test test.pl.c   -L/usr/local/lib
-L/usr/loc
al/lib/perl5/5.6.0/i586-linux/CORE -lperl -lnsl -lndbm -lgdbm -ldb -ldl
-lm -lc
-lposix -lcrypt /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.0/i586-linux/auto/IO/IO.so
/usr/local/l
ib/perl5/5.6.0/i586-linux/auto/Fcntl/Fcntl.so
/tmp/ccRdBXSU.o: In function `xs_init':
/tmp/ccRdBXSU.o(.text+0x3279): undefined reference to `boot_DynaLoader'
ERROR: In compiling code for test.pl.c !


Um ... huh?
test.pl is 40bytes. The generated test.pl.c is about 35k. But I'm a
little lost as to what's going on in the compile stage there, and why it
failed. Apparently I'm not the only one. Tom Christiansen posted a
similar example to P5P a few days ago, wondering why it did not work.
Perhaps we'll see some progress on this in the next few days.

Rich
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