At 11:10 10/03/98 +0100, you wrote:
>>I have just got Sams unleashing redhat and loaded linux from the
>inclosed CD.
>
>Excellent!
>
>>I have downloaded perl5_004_04 and am having trouble with MAKE. It
>returns
>>errors like:
>>
>>In file included from perl.h:1214
>> from miniperlmain.c:14:
>/usr/include/math.h:273:
>>parse error befor character 0337
>
>There is something wrong with file /usr/include/math.h, at line 273.
>Octal 337 is decimal 223. It is unusual to see ASCII characters > 127 in
>header files. This could be indicative of a corrupted file. What does
>math.h look like?
>
>>And
>>
>>In file included from POSIX.xs:17:
>>/usr/include/math.h:396: redefinition of '__copysign'
>>/usr/include/math.h:396: '__copysign' previously defined
>
>This is (usually) benign. It's just saying that a typedef or something
>is being defined a second time. But you shouldn't ever come across this
>sort of thing compiling perl... it has extensive tests that probe the
>compile environment beforehand.
>
>>Can anyone help ?
>
>You did run Configure before kicking off the make, yes?
>
Yes.
Firstly, I tried 'sh Configure' then 'sh Configure -des' then 'sh
Configure -Dcc=gcc' and finally 'sh Configure -Dcc=gcc -des'.
each time doing a 'rm -f config.sh'.
the math.h file looks fine but could you tell me the best way to check for
corruption of this file.
regards
Patrick
>DL
>
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