RE: Can't build XML::Xerces

Hi again,

> $ perl -V:ccflags
> ccflags='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DTHREADS_HAVE_PIDS
> -DDEBIAN -fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include
> -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64';
> 
> You should see  -D_GNU_SOURCE in the list or you are in trouble. Look
> on google for solutions. 

It turned out that our perl builds have virtually identical predefines
to yours (except for -DDEBIAN, obviously) but that Makefile.PL wasn't
generating this predefine for XML::Xerces for some reason, although this
may have been related to the slightly odd setup on my computer (I don't
know anything really about how MakeMaker works, but I have a perl of my
own with different predefines and perhaps it was matching its
configuration to that rather than to our 'official' perl build). Anyway,
a quick hack later and it was building with the same predefines as our
perl and built but failed all the tests. So I hacked the build of the
Xerces library itself in a similar way and it now passes 99.99% of the
tests, which is probably good enough for me. I was wondering if you
could tell me what the following error might indicate though (tests that
passed with no caveats stripped from output):

PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1
/arm/eda/tools/dsystool/perl-5_8_3/Linux-redhat-7_2-i686/bin/perl
"-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e" "test_harness(0, 'blib/lib',
'blib/arch')" t/*.t
t/actualCast..............ok 9/11# Looks like you planned 11 tests but
only ran 9.
t/actualCast..............dubious
        Test returned status 2 (wstat 512, 0x200)
DIED. FAILED tests 10-11
        Failed 2/11 tests, 81.82% okay (less 2 skipped tests: 7 okay,
63.64%)
t/DOMBuilder..............ok
        3/12 skipped: various reasons
t/DOMEntity...............ok
        1/4 skipped: entities still not working
t/PerlErrorHandler........ok
        1/6 skipped: temporarily not returning old handler
t/XMLScanner..............ok
        11/12 skipped: XMLScanner is no longer public

Failed Test    Stat Wstat Total Fail  Failed  List of Failed
------------------------------------------------------------------------
-------
t/actualCast.t    2   512    11    4  36.36%  10-11
18 subtests skipped.
Failed 1/39 test scripts, 97.44% okay. 2/35408 subtests failed, 99.99%
okay.
make: *** [test_dynamic] Error 29


> That's about all I can suggest. (other than switching to debian ;-)

Heh - sadly not one of our supported platforms ;)


Thanks for your help!

-- 
Bernie Ogden

Product Engineering Group
ARM Ltd

Tel: 01223 406 022

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