Hello Monks.

Well I was hoping to complete this task without bothering SoPW, but both google and super-search have not been my friends.

I'm building a newer version of perl (5.8.6) on a platform which is no longer supported and therefore has no package later than 5.6.1. It's being built on a system where I can't overwrite the existing perl (for various reasons) and will be deployed as a package to identical systems that lack for a compiler.

Sounds like a job for chroot, I thought - build new perl, install it in a chroot environment, and then package up from there.

However, the gods are not smiling. I receive the following error: 

# make install
make install.perl install.man STRIPFLAGS= DESTDIR=""
        AutoSplitting perl library
./miniperl -Ilib -e 'use AutoSplit;  autosplit_lib_modules(@ARGV)' lib
+/*.pm
Can't open perl script "-e": No such file or directory
*** Error code 9
 
Stop in /perl-5.8.6 (line 371 of makefile).
*** Error code 1
 
Stop in /perl-5.8.6 (line 440 of makefile).

[download]
..this indicates to me that something is missing from the chroot environment (the same command launched from the same directory but without chrootiness works fine), but what? Attempts to run miniperl -Ilib -e with other code meets the 'Can't open perl script "-e"' error, but miniperl functions just fine as a stand-alone perl, i.e. when run without -e.

Any ideas what could be missing? Has anymonk ever successfully installed perl in a chroot environment?

In reply to Building perl in chroot by moot

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.