Help requested for libwww-5.18

Larry W. Virden, x2487 (lvirden@cas.org)
Wed, 7 Jan 1998 10:51:37 -0500


I am trying to build libwww-5.18 for SPARC Solaris 2.5.1 and perl
5.004056.  I am getting these errors and wondered if anyone had any
fixes for these.

uri/base............ Query is not a form at uri/base.t line 321
dubious
        Test returned status 2 (wstat 512, 0x200)
Number found where operator expected at (eval 13) line 1, near ")0"
        (Missing operator before 0?)
DIED. FAILED tests 2-8
        Failed 7/8 tests, 12.50% okay

html/entities.......FAILED tests 1-2, 5-7
        Failed 5/8 tests, 37.50% okay

html/headparser.....FAILED test 1
        Failed 1/2 tests, 50.00% okay

robot/rules-dbm.....No such package "NDBM_File" in @ISA assignment at /ldata2/lib/perl5/AnyDBM_File.pm line 4.
No such package "DB_File" in @ISA assignment at /ldata2/lib/perl5/AnyDBM_File.pm line 4.
No such package "GDBM_File" in @ISA assignment at /ldata2/lib/perl5/AnyDBM_File.pm line 4.
No such package "SDBM_File" in @ISA assignment at /ldata2/lib/perl5/AnyDBM_File.pm line 4.
No such package "ODBM_File" in @ISA assignment at /ldata2/lib/perl5/AnyDBM_File.pm line 4.

Summary of my perl5 (5.0 patchlevel 4 subversion 56) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=solaris, osvers=2.5.1, archname=sun4-solaris-thread
    uname='sunos lwv26awm 5.5.1 generic_103640-08 sun4m sparc sunw,sparcstation-4 '
    hint=previous, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    bincompat3=n useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='cc', optimize='-fast -xO5 -xdepend', gccversion=
    cppflags='-DDEBUGGING -I/projects/gnu/sparc-sun-solaris2.5.1/include'
    ccflags ='-DDEBUGGING -I/projects/gnu/sparc-sun-solaris2.5.1/include'
    stdchar='unsigned char', d_stdstdio=define, usevfork=false
    voidflags=15, castflags=0, d_casti32=define, d_castneg=define
    intsize=4, alignbytes=8, usemymalloc=y, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='cc', ldflags ='-L/ldata2/lib -L/usr/ccs/lib -L/projects/gnu/sparc-sun-solaris2.5.1/lib -L/projects/sprs_lwv/sol2/lib -L/projects/sprs_lwv/lib -R/ldata2/lib:/usr/ccs/lib:/projects/gnu/sparc-sun-solaris2.5.1/lib:/projects/sprs_lwv/sol2/lib:/projects/sprs_lwv/lib'
    libpth=/ldata2/lib /usr/ccs/lib /projects/gnu/sparc-sun-solaris2.5.1/lib /projects/sprs_lwv/sol2/lib /projects/sprs_lwv/lib /usr/lib
    libs=-lsocket -lnsl -lgdbm -ldb -ldl -lm -lc -lcrypt
    libc=/lib/libc.so, so=so
    useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' '
    cccdlflags='-KPIC', lddlflags='-G -L/ldata2/lib -L/usr/ccs/lib -L/projects/gnu/sparc-sun-solaris2.5.1/lib -L/projects/sprs_lwv/sol2/lib -L/projects/sprs_lwv/lib -R/ldata2/lib:/usr/ccs/lib:/projects/gnu/sparc-sun-solaris2.5.1/lib:/projects/sprs_lwv/sol2/lib:/projects/sprs_lwv/lib'


Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): 
  Compile-time options: DEBUGGING
  Built under solaris
  Compiled at Jan  1 1998 23:10:03
  %ENV:
    PERL5LIB="/home/lwv26/lib/perl5/:/projects/sprs_lwv/lib/perl5/:"
    PERLDOC="-t"
    PERLLIB="/home/lwv26/lib/perl:/projects/sprs_lwv/lib/perl:"
  @INC:
    /home/lwv26/lib/perl5/
    /projects/sprs_lwv/lib/perl5/
    /ldata2/lib/perl5/sun4-solaris/5.004
    /ldata2/lib/perl5
    /ldata2/lib/perl5/site_perl/sun4-solaris
    /ldata2/lib/perl5/site_perl
    .
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