Dear Monks,

Is my Perl (5.6.1) just too old to be built on RHEL4AS? I am not very experienced in having to build Perl so I will show what I am doing just incase that's the problem: 

localhost:/usr/OLD/perl/src/perl-5.6.1$ mv config.sh config.sh_BU
localhost:/usr/OLD/perl/src/perl-5.6.1$ mv Policy.sh Policy.sh_BU
localhost:/usr/OLD/perl/src/perl-5.6.1$ sh Configure -Dcc=gcc -Dprefix
+=/usr/OLD/perl -de
... lots of output that looks just fine to me ...
localhost:/usr/OLD/perl/src/perl-5.6.1$ make
make: *** No rule to make target `<built-in>', needed by `miniperlmain
+.o'.  Stop.

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... WHAM I fall right on my face!

What gcc am I using ? 

localhost:~$ gcc -v
Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/3.4.6/specs
Configured with: ../configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --
+infodir=/usr/share/info --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --disa
+ble-checking --with-system-zlib --enable-__cxa_atexit --disable-libun
+wind-exceptions --enable-java-awt=gtk --host=i386-redhat-linux
Thread model: posix
gcc version 3.4.6 20060404 (Red Hat 3.4.6-9)

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What 's my kernel? 

localhost:~$ uname -a
Linux localhost 2.6.9-67.0.7.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed Feb 27 04:48:20 EST 2008
+ i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux

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I know what many of you are saying, "Why doesn't he just upgrade?", well I want to but I help in showing that 5.6.1 is just way to old for 2.6 Linux Kernel.

Thanks!

In reply to Is 5.6.1 just too old to be built? by Plankton

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