I am trying to install some modules from the Perl CPAN into the MPE/iX
version of Perl I installed from the Freeware Tape.

MIME-Base64
IO
Libnet
MD5
lib-www
CGI

This is not easy! Looks like the "standard" Module installation doesn't
work correctly on MPE/iX. For example, on MD5 (v1.7), I did..

shell/iX>perl Makefile.PL

Which worked fine. Then I did..

shell/iX>make test

Which produced...

shell/iX> make test
PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/local/bin/perl -I./blib/arch -I./blib/lib
-I/usr/local/li
b/mpeix -I/usr/local/lib/perl5 test.pl
1..14
ok 1
ok 2
ok 3
ok 4
ok 5
ok 6
ok 7
ok 8
ok 9
ok 10
ok 11
ok 12
ok 13
ok 14
shell/iX>

shell/iX> perl test.pl
1..14
Can't find 'boot_MD5' symbol in /usr/local/lib/perl5/auto/MD5/MD5.sl
 at /usr/local/lib/perl5/MD5.pm line 20
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at test.pl line 12.
not ok 1
shell/iX>

Has anyone any idea what is happening here. When I do "make test" it seems
to work fine. I
suspect that this is doing some kind of dynamic binding of some sort? Also,
 a "make test" for the IO
module produces the following...

shell/iX> make test
PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/local/bin/perl -I./blib/arch -I./blib/lib
-I/usr/local/li
b/mpeix -I/usr/local/lib/perl5 -e 'use Test::Harness qw(&runtests
$verbose); $ve
rbose=0; runtests @ARGV;' t/*.t
times not implemented at /usr/local/lib/perl5/Benchmark.pm line 274.
make: *** [test_dynamic] Error 2
shell/iX>

Hmm. I think we've got >1 problem here. Anybody out there a Perl guru? I'm
using the GCU C
compiler (again freeware).

Mark Wilkinson

[log in to unmask]
[log in to unmask]