[sf-perl] macOS 11.2.1 Perl 5.28.2 ExtUtils::MakeMaker 7.34 'perl Makefile.PL' Segmentation fault: 11

[David Christensen]

On 2021-02-12 10:45, William Michels wrote:
> Hi David,
> 
> Chiming in only because you and I have MBPs of similar (identical?)
> vintage. I've been recently playing with a module and had to update
> CPAN. I ran into problems installing the 2 Mac-specific modules
> File::HomeDir  and  Mac::SystemDirectory , so maybe you can check if
> they're up-to-date for you.
> 
> #CPAN output:
> Failed during this command:
>   ETHER/Mac-SystemDirectory-0.13.tar.gz        : make NO
>   REHSACK/File-HomeDir-1.006.tar.gz            : make_test NO one dependency
> not OK (Mac::SystemDirectory)
>   ANDK/CPAN-2.28.tar.gz                        : make_test NO one dependency
> not OK (File::HomeDir)
> 
> 
> Possible "Big Sur" connection/resolution here:
> 
> https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/576232/latexindent-trouble-installing-filehomedir-macsystemdirectory-since-macos


I am also running into the EXTERN.h issue:

2021-02-11 22:57:47 dpchrist at MacBook-Pro ~
$ cpan List::AllUtils
...
Configuring D/DR/DROLSKY/List-SomeUtils-0.58.tar.gz with Makefile.PL
HASCOMPILERlSmZ/TESTv6X3.c:2:10: fatal error: 'EXTERN.h' file not found
#include "EXTERN.h"
                  ^~~~~~~~~~
1 error generated.
Couldn't execute cc  -g -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing 
-fstack-protector-strong -DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV -Os 
"-I/System/Library/Perl/5.28/darwin-thread-multi-2level/CORE"   -c 
HASCOMPILERlSmZ/TESTv6X3.c -o HASCOMPILERlSmZ/TESTv6X3.o: Inappropriate 
ioctl for device at Makefile.PL line 107.


I saw this same issue ~20 months ago.  I filed a bug report with Apple 
developer.  They told me "this issue behaves as intended ...", and 
directed me to install a macOS SDK headers package that was included 
with Xcode.  Looking at my current installation, I do not see an 
analogous file.


stackexchange/ stackoverflow user-to-user work-arounds are not 
appealing, but I'll keep that in mind as a last resort.


David