Re: perl built with -DDEBUGGING causes "failed to extend arg stack" error with XS modules

Back to building perl sans -DDEBUGGING ...

Looking at https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/16607, it seems to me that another solution would be to build your XS modules from source (ie cpan -i DateTime), rather than installing the port (which was built for a non-debugging perl) provided by the system vendor.
And, that's the option I would take, if my understanding of the issue is correct.
I would not expect any XS module built for a specific configuration of perl to necessarily work on a perl of a different configuration.

Update:
Is there a way to have perl built with DEBUGGING and XS modules not fail?

AFAIK, the XS modules will generally be fine on a -DDEBUGGING perl as long as they are built using that -DDEBUGGING perl.

Cheers,
Rob

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Re^2: perl built with -DDEBUGGING causes "failed to extend arg stack" error with XS modules by Fletch (Bishop) on Jul 25, 2021 at 02:23 UTC
Seconded. If you change perl's flags don't expect to be able to use XS modules compiled against a perl with a different set of flags. In general if you keep the same flags within the same major.minor you're probably safe (i.e. you probably can vary patchlevel, but . . .); other than that it's safer to make sure you build with what you're running with. The cake is a lie. The cake is a lie. The cake is a lie.	[reply]
Re^2: perl built with -DDEBUGGING causes "failed to extend arg stack" error with XS modules by parv (Parson) on Jul 25, 2021 at 14:10 UTC
I did built DateTime from source ... I recently built perl 5.32.1 with -DDEBUGGING & DateTime 1.54 from source ... ... Only after then I had posted here. FreeBSD Ports allows one to do that any time (except for the cases where only the binary blobs are available).	[reply]
Re^3: perl built with -DDEBUGGING causes "failed to extend arg stack" error with XS modules by syphilis (Archbishop) on Jul 25, 2021 at 15:12 UTC
I recently built perl 5.32.1 with -DDEBUGGING You built that -DDEBUGGING perl yourself ?? I took one look at the "config_args" as reported in the "perl -V" output you provided in your original post and decided that this must be a perl provided by FreeBSD Ports. When I build perl on FreeBSD 12.0, I specify Configure args of "-des -Duse64bitall -Dprefix=/home/me/perl-5.x.y", and that's all. If I wanted a DEBUG perl then I'd just be adding the "-DDEBUGGING" flag to the list I used. (It's a while since I've built a -DDEBUGGING perl, so correct me if there are other flags that need to be added.) Try building your perl with a trimmed back list of configure args (like the list that I use) and see if that makes a difference. How did you actually build and install DateTime-1.54 from source ? (Seeing the output from that process might be useful.) Cheers, Rob	[reply]
Re^4: perl built with -DDEBUGGING causes "failed to extend arg stack" error with XS modules by parv (Parson) on Jul 25, 2021 at 16:15 UTC
Yes, I had built perl from source with debugging via Potrs (set `DEBUG` option for the port either in `/etc/make.conf` or via "dialog" brought up with `make config` in the port directory); at the end of "perl -V" ... `... Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): Compile-time options: DEBUGGING HAS_TIMES MULTIPLICITY PERLIO_LAYERS PERL_COPY_ON_WRITE ...` [download] I had rebuilt DateTime again (from source, with perl with debugging) in case I might not have removed all of its dependencies. No difference. I will try later to build perl & DateTime outside of Ports, but does not look like that would help any given the evidence so far.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^5: perl built with -DDEBUGGING causes "failed to extend arg stack" error with XS modules by syphilis (Archbishop) on Jul 26, 2021 at 02:01 UTC