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Perl DBI SCO Unix 5

SCO Unix had tywo complier options. The first as their "native" compiler, which requited a purchased license.

At some point they put gcc into Skunkware and you could avoid the purchasing of a license by using that. You did still need the SCO specific header files, but they let you have those freely.

Some folks had both and of course make files might be aimed at one or the other. This is an example.

From: Lukasz Wiechec <magic@bet.po.opole.pl>
Subject: Re: Perl DBI
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sco.misc
References: <998684974.876681018@news.junction.net> 
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 16:09:39 +0200
Message-ID: <3bkdm9.jfu.ln@blacky.wbk.com> 
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Skot <skotaylor@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Has anyone had any luck installing the Perl DBI module on OSR5.0.5, I'm using
> Perl5.005 and gcc 2.95.2.  perl Makefile.PL says everything is fine, but make
> gives me these errors:

> /usr/bin/perl -I/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.00503/i386-sco -I/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.00503 
> /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.00503/ExtUtils/xsubpp  -typemap /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.00503/ExtUtils/typemap 
> Perl.xs >xstmp.c && mv xstmp.c Perl.c      
> cc -c  -U M_XENIX -D PERL_SCO -D PERL_SCO5 -w0 -belf -I/usr/local/include -O0  
> -DVERSION=\"1.19\" -DXS_VERSION=\"1.19\" -Kpic -I/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.00503/i
> 386-sco/CORE -DDBI_NO_THREADS Perl.c                                          
> cc: unrecognized option `-w0'                                                 
> cc: unrecognized option `-Kpic'                                               
> cpp: -lang-c: linker input file unused since linking not done                 
> cc: installation problem, cannot exec `cc1': No such file or directory        
> cc: file path prefix `/usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/elf/2.95.2/' never used          

> make: *** [Perl.o] Error 1 

> Anyone know what I'm missing?

I've managed to compile and install successfully Perl DBI on OS 5.0.4 using
gcc 2.7.2.3 (old Skunkware). 

Are you sure you are compiling using gcc ? For me it seems you're using 
SCO native 'cc', which lacks such options as -w0 or -Kpic. Look into
your 'Makefile' and change 'CC' settings to CC=gcc. 
I don't remember exactly what I did (I compiled it about a year ago), but
all you have to do is to make sure you're using proper compiler (i.e. gcc)
and use proper options for it.

Let us know how it went.

-- 
Milego dnia,

        Lukasz Wiechec
 

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