Ubuntu 11.04 and perlbrew installation problems about app-perlbrew HOT 20 CLOSED

On 2011/5/5, at 下午1:57, sreekanth-kocharlakota wrote:

Hi,

I am unable to fix it from past 3 days and I desperately need someone to help me on this. I installed perlbrew like a charm on Ubuntu 10.10 and it worked great. But now I upgraded to 11.04 and am finding issues. I know that the issue is with GCC linker options -lm (linking math.h) and -lrt (time.h). Here are the errors. Can some one tell me how I can fix this problem ?

pp_sys.c:(.text+0x796): undefined reference to fmod' pp_sys.c:(.text+0x7bf): undefined reference tofmod'
pp_sys.o: In function Perl_pp_gmtime': pp_sys.c:(.text+0xc602): undefined reference tofloor'
pp_pack.o: In function S_pack_rec': pp_pack.c:(.text+0x61fa): undefined reference tofloor'
pp_pack.c:(.text+0x621b): undefined reference to floor' pp_pack.c:(.text+0x623a): undefined reference tofloor'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [miniperl] Error 1

Yes this is an known issue in perl5-porters. Ubuntu 11.04 put libm.so in a much different location
under /lib/, which is not in the default search path when building those older-then-11.04 perls.

I highly suggest to solve this building issue in Devel::PatchPerl since perlbrew now relies on it to fix the building
process.

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Hi Gugod.

Can you please elaborate on this ? Can you please tell me what I need to do in the PatchPerl ? Appreciate your help!

"I highly suggest to solve this building issue in Devel::PatchPerl since perlbrew now relies on it to fix the building
process"

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I don't really know exactly what to do on this particular issue. :)

I just know that Devel::PatchPerl is the place that we should be to deal with building process (but not add features).

To be fore specific, a few days ago I was investigating on this and discovered in hints/linux.sh in the blead, there is a paragraph describing this issue. I tried to copy the blead hints/linux.sh to a perl-5.12.3, but it did not just work. libm was found, but there were some other build errors.

That is really all I can tell you :)

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Wow! I brewed my coffee (perl environment) really well on 10.10. My bad to upgrade to 11.04. Kindly keep me posted if you find a fix for this. Thanks gugod!

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@gugod

To solve this problem, we have to pass -Dperllibs and -Dplibpth with space-contained strings like below.
perlbrew install perl-5.12.3 -Dperllibs='-lm -lc'

Then I encountered weird perlbrew's behavior. perlbrew only uses first "word" to build.
Result:
(cd /home/puny/perl5/perlbrew/build; tar xzf /home/puny/perl5/perlbrew/dists/perl-5.12.3.tar.gz;cd /home/puny/perl5/perlbrew/build/perl-5.12.3;rm -f config.sh Policy.sh;patchperl;sh Configure -de '-Dprefix=/home/puny/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.12.3' '-Dperllibs=-lm';make ;make test_harness && make install) >> '/home/puny/perl5/perlbrew/build.log' 2>&1

The option '-Dperllibs=-lm' must be like '-Dperllibs="-lm -lc"'.

I think this option parsing problem may be a bug of perlbrew.
If this is a wrong guess, excuse me :)

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Thanks for spotting that @punytan!

It does feel like a perlbrew bug to me, should spend some time solving it soon.

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It appears that Devel::PatchPerl 0.32 just fixed the building process on Ubuntu 11.04.

I have write a blog describing this update at http://gugod.org/2011/05/perlbrew-020-release.html

If anyone can confirm the building to be successful, we can then close this issue :)

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@gugod
Unfortunately, make fails on perlbrew 0.20.

It seems we have to specify perllibs and plibpth explicitly.

puny@puny-VGN-TZ73B:~/perl5/perlbrew/build/perl-5.12.3$ grep perllibs config.sh 
perllibs=' '
puny@puny-VGN-TZ73B:~/perl5/perlbrew/build/perl-5.12.3$ grep plibpth config.sh 
plibpth=''

puny@puny-VGN-TZ73B:~/perl5/perlbrew$ perlbrew version
/home/puny/perl5/perlbrew/bin/perlbrew  - App::perlbrew/0.20

puny@puny-VGN-TZ73B:~/perl5/perlbrew$ perlbrew install perl-5.12.3
Use the previously fetched perl-5.12.3.tar.gz
Installing /home/puny/perl5/perlbrew/build/perl-5.12.3 into ~/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.12.3
This could take a while. You can run the following command on another shell to track the status:

  tail -f ~/perl5/perlbrew/build.log

(cd /home/puny/perl5/perlbrew/build/perl-5.12.3;rm -f config.sh Policy.sh;patchperl;sh Configure -de '-Dprefix=/home/puny/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.12.3';make ;make test_harness && make install) >> '/home/puny/perl5/perlbrew/build.log' 2>&1 
Installing /home/puny/perl5/perlbrew/build/perl-5.12.3 failed. See /home/puny/perl5/perlbrew/build.log to see why.
If you want to force install the distribution, try:

  perlbrew --force install perl-5.12.3

build.log

pp_sys.c:(.text+0x1c6): undefined reference to `ceil'
pp_sys.c:(.text+0x219): undefined reference to `ceil'
pp_sys.c:(.text+0x2db): undefined reference to `floor'
pp_sys.c:(.text+0x4aa): undefined reference to `ceil'
pp_sys.c:(.text+0x5a2): undefined reference to `floor'
pp_sys.c:(.text+0x5fa): undefined reference to `floor'
pp_sys.c:(.text+0x612): undefined reference to `floor'
pp_sys.c:(.text+0x73b): undefined reference to `fmod'
pp_sys.c:(.text+0x76d): undefined reference to `fmod'
pp_sys.c:(.text+0x796): undefined reference to `fmod'
pp_sys.c:(.text+0x7bf): undefined reference to `fmod'
pp_sys.o: In function `Perl_pp_gmtime':
pp_sys.c:(.text+0xc602): undefined reference to `floor'
pp_pack.o: In function `S_pack_rec':
pp_pack.c:(.text+0x61fa): undefined reference to `floor'
pp_pack.c:(.text+0x621b): undefined reference to `floor'
pp_pack.c:(.text+0x623a): undefined reference to `floor'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [miniperl] Error 1

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puny@puny-VGN-TZ73B:~/perl5/perlbrew/build/perl-5.12.3$ uname -a
Linux puny-VGN-TZ73B 2.6.38-8-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Mon Apr 11 03:31:50 UTC 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

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@punytan,

Thanks to @magnificent-tears who pointed out two obvious mistakes I made in the installer. They are fixed and I just confirmed that it worked for me (on a EC2 Ubuntu 11.04 instance)

If you install perlbrew by running this:

curl -L http://xrl.us/perlbrewinstall | bash

It should be working now.

It installs a standalone 'patchperl' program with the latest Devel::PatchPerl, which incorporate patches for building on Ubuntu 11.04. The perlbrew executable now depends on patchperl to fix any building process.

Please give it a try sometime, thank you.

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Hello Gugod,

You are the Saviour. New patch works great and I am right now brewing my
perl on the Ubuntu 11.04. Appreciate all your help on this.

Thanks and Regards
Sreekanth Kocharlakota
224.433.3277

On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 5:04 PM, gugod <
[email protected]>wrote:

@punytan,

Thanks to @magnificent-tears who pointed out two obvious mistake I made in
the installer. They are fixed and I just confirmed that it worked for me (on
a EC2 Ubuntu 11.04 instance)

If you install perlbrew by running this:

curl -L http://xrl.us/perlbrewinstall | bash

It should be working now.

It installs a standalone 'patchperl' program with the latest
Devel::PatchPerl, which incorporate patches for building on Ubuntu 11.04.
The perlbrew executable now depends on patchperl to fix any building
process.

Please give it a try sometime, thank you.

Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub:
#64 (comment)

Thanks and Regards,
Sreekanth Kocharlakota
M: 224.433.3277

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@gugod,
Thanks!

It works fine without one problem that ext/ODBM_File/hints/linux.pl checks hard-coded libgdbm path.
(This problem should be fixed in patchperl or upstream, but I think here is more suitable for this discussion and useful for others.)

The path written in ext/ODBM_File/hints/linux.pl is:

if (-e '/usr/lib/libgdbm_compat.so' or -e '/usr/lib64/libgdbm_compat.so') {

but on my environment, libgdbm is located at /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/.

$ locate libgdbm | grep o$
/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgdbm.so
/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgdbm_compat.so

So the result of make test is:

../lib/User/pwent.t ............................................... ok
../lib/feature/unicode_strings.t .................................. ok
x2p/s2p.t ......................................................... ok

Test Summary Report
-------------------
op/stash.t                                                      (Wstat: 0 Tests: 31 Failed: 0)
  TODO passed:   26
../cpan/Memoize/t/errors.t                                      (Wstat: 11 Tests: 6 Failed: 0)
  Non-zero wait status: 11
  Parse errors: Bad plan.  You planned 11 tests but ran 6.
../ext/ODBM_File/t/odbm.t                                       (Wstat: 32512 Tests: 0 Failed: 0)
  Non-zero exit status: 127
  Parse errors: No plan found in TAP output
../lib/DBM_Filter/t/01error.t                                   (Wstat: 32512 Tests: 3 Failed: 0)
  Non-zero exit status: 127
  Parse errors: Bad plan.  You planned 21 tests but ran 3.
Files=1808, Tests=349977, 930 wallclock secs (73.67 usr 14.43 sys + 511.11 cusr 72.13 csys = 671.34 CPU)
Result: FAIL
make: *** [test_harness] Error 3

To pass tests, I rewrite ext/ODBM_File/hints/linux.pl like below,

if (-e '/usr/lib/libgdbm_compat.so' or -e '/usr/lib64/libgdbm_compat.so'
    or -e '/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgdbm.so' or -e '/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgdbm_compat.so'
) {

then run

 $ make clean && make && make test
 $ make install

works fine.

This problem is the same cause of Ubuntu 11.04's. And the path to the library vary in architecture.
See also https://github.com/mirrors/perl/blob/blead/hints/linux.sh#L154

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I'm facing what seems to be the same issue using Ubuntu 11.10, perlbrew 0.41 and trying to install perl-5.14.2. The error in build.log starts like this:

<...>
cc -fstack-protector -L/usr/local/lib -o miniperl \
          gv.o toke.o perly.o pad.o regcomp.o dump.o util.o mg.o reentr.o mro.o keywords.o hv.o av.o run.o pp_hot.o sv.o pp.o scope.o pp_ctl.o pp_sys.o doop.o doio.o regexec.o utf8.o taint.o deb.o universal.o globals.o perlio.o perlapi.o numeric.o mathoms.o locale.o pp_pack.o pp_sort.o   \
        miniperlmain.o opmini.o perlmini.o 
pp.o: In function `Perl_pp_pow':
pp.c:(.text+0x364e): undefined reference to `pow'
pp.o: In function `Perl_pp_modulo':
pp.c:(.text+0x4415): undefined reference to `floor'
pp.c:(.text+0x45af): undefined reference to `floor'
pp.c:(.text+0x4710): undefined reference to `fmod'
<...>

I tried to use with that option but the result was the same:

perlbrew install perl-5.14.2 -Dperllibs='-lm -lc'

This didn't work too:

perlbrew install perl-5.14.2 -Dperllibs='"-lm -lc"'

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@gnustavo This should be solved already because perlbrew automatically calls "patchperl" now. Is it possible that's missing ? Do a which patchperl to locate it. If so, you should run cpanm Devel::PatchPerl to install it if your perlbrew is also installed from CPAN.

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@gugod I have patchperl installed. See:

perl@gnu:~$ which patchperl
/opt/perl/perl5/perlbrew/bin/patchperl

I installed perlbrew with curl -kL http://install.perlbrew.pl | bash, not via CPAN.

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@gugod You can download the complete build.log. I hope it can help you spot the problem. Thanks.

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@gnustavo

This problem is already solved.
You should install or make test perl manually (without perlbrew) to confirm the issue is caused by perlbrew or not.

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@punytan You're right. I've tried to install perl-5.14.2 manually and it failed with the same message.

Thank you!

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This is Perl's bug #100374. Just to let you know.

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I'm having the same problem

build.log: http://pastebin.com/KETR1UEp

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Solution
http://bitsnoarame.blogspot.com.br/2012/03/perlbrew-em-ubuntu-1110.html

:)

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