Compiling on RH8

[Brad Fitzpatrick]

You may have to install perl-dev package, or run h2ph.  (looking at
perldoc -f syscall)

Look at man h2ph.

- Brad


On Tue, 5 Jul 2005, Jason Dunkerley wrote:

> Hi,
>
>     I have successfully setup perlbal on some Centos 4 machines and want
> to now use it on some older RH8 machines.  Obviously, there are some
> differences between the two, but I'm not sure how to resolve this.  When
> I compile perlbal and run the make test, I get the following error:
> <snip>
> PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/bin/perl "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e"
> "test_harness(0, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t
> t/00use....NOK 1#     Failed test (t/00use.t at line
> 7)
> #     Tried to use 'Perlbal'.
> #     Error:  Undefined subroutine &main::SYS_sendfile called at
> /usr/local/src/Perlbal-1.2/blib/lib/Perlbal/ClientHTTPBase.pm line 41.
> # Compilation failed in require at (eval 10) line 3.
> #       ...propagated at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/base.pm line 64.
> # BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at
> /usr/local/src/Perlbal-1.2/blib/lib/Perlbal/ClientProxy.pm line 8.
> </snip>
>
> It goes on, but I'm pretty sure this is the part that is needed.  Any
> ideas what the problem is?
>
> I have installed the prereq perl modules no problem.
>
> Any help would be much appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Jason
>
>