Re^3: perl-5.24.3 build woes

Missing "Makefile.PL" -- by design! -- file is created by "make" process[0] (I checked only ext/Devel-Peek on my end). Reason for 0-sized "Makefile.PL" most likely is that file system did not have enough physical disk space to populate it but just enough to create an entry (inode) in the directory.

ls -Faltr ext/Devel-Peek
total 86
-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel   2248 Jun 30  2017 Changes
-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel  12508 Jun 30  2017 Peek.xs
-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel  18073 Jun 30  2017 Peek.pm
drwxr-xr-x  43 root  wheel     43 Sep 22  2017 ../
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel      3 Sep 22  2017 t/
-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel   1578 Apr  6 22:22 Makefile.PL
-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel  30738 Apr  6 22:22 Makefile
drwxr-xr-x   6 root  wheel      6 Apr  6 22:22 blib/
-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel      0 Apr  6 22:22 pm_to_blib
-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel  22482 Apr  6 22:22 Peek.c
-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel  17256 Apr  6 22:22 Peek.o
drwxr-xr-x   4 root  wheel     12 Apr  6 22:22 ./
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You would have to wait for someone else about bad "w" flag being passed to "make". (My speculation(!) is that not the right "make" is being detected or wrong "make" is being called.)

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Re^4: perl-5.24.3 build woes by 2pipes (Novice) on Apr 07, 2018 at 19:18 UTC
In other words, the "No Makefile" problem was a 'short between the ears'. Thanks for the explanation. There's only one make on the system (GNU v.4.2.1). It's from an RPM built by Bull as part of their freeware offerings and was probably built using IBM's XLC. Could that matter? I know some perl modules must be built with gcc and require a perl and some dependencies also be built with gcc (IO::Socket::SSL), which is why I need to build perl myself. I didn't think it would matter with make, though. make links to make_32. make_64 exists but won't load because libgmp and libgcc can't be loaded - I haven't explored why yet. Is it possible I need to be using a 64 bit version of make? Not necessarily as a solution to the bad "w" flag - that doesn't seem relevant - just as a rule when building 64 bit applications?	[reply]
Re^5: perl-5.24.3 build woes by Tux (Canon) on Apr 08, 2018 at 08:18 UTC
I build with GNU make 3.81 on AIX 5.3, so 4.x should suffice How 'make' is compiled does not influence how perl is compiled. 64-bit make should work fine: `make: 64-bit XCOFF executable or object module` If you want to build everything in 64-bitall, you should set your environment accordingly: `sh $ export OBJECT_MODE=64 csh% setenv OBJECT_MODE 64` [download] Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn	[reply] [d/l] [select]