Bug 249827 – dev-lang/perl-5.8.8-r5 fails to compile with all use flags off: no asm/page.h

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Vault13 2008-12-04 18:10:31 UTC]

all use flags perl knows about are set to off (this is x86 chroot on amd64)

perl compilation aborts due to missing header file asm/page.h

there is no asm/page.h file on my 1st computer

my 2nd computer has it:
/usr/mips-unknown-linux-gnu/usr/include/asm/page.h

googlin for "perl asm/page.h" brings result "old well-known bug in perl"

after creatin empty file /usr/include/asm/page.h perl compiled succesfully

i suggest that perl be patched to not include the file

[Comment 1 Vault13 2008-12-04 18:12:02 UTC]

Created attachment 174247 [details]
ebuild log and emerge--info

[Comment 2 Wormo (RETIRED) 2008-12-06 07:09:56 UTC]

Thanks for reporting this issue, and doing the legwork to find the solution. Could you please attach ebuild log and emerge info uncompressed? Or, if the ebuild log is really huge, bzip it rather than using 7zip (which most people don't have installed)

[Comment 3 Vault13 2008-12-06 10:51:35 UTC]

Created attachment 174394 [details]
build log and emerge--info output

same files repacked as tar.bz2

[Comment 4 Adeel 2009-02-19 02:59:02 UTC]

I just had this problem myself, and a quick google search returned this:
http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2007/02/msg121370.html

the patch is:
--- perl-5.8.8/ext/IPC/SysV/SysV.xs.no_asm_page_h       2001-06-30
14:46:07.000000000 -0400
+++ perl-5.8.8/ext/IPC/SysV/SysV.xs     2006-06-02 17:37:22.000000000
-0400
@@ -3,9 +3,6 @@
 #include "XSUB.h"

 #include <sys/types.h>
-#ifdef __linux__
-#   include <asm/page.h>
-#endif
 #if defined(HAS_MSG) || defined(HAS_SEM) || defined(HAS_SHM)
 #ifndef HAS_SEM
 #   include <sys/ipc.h>

[Comment 5 Torsten Veller (RETIRED) 2009-09-28 15:59:14 UTC]

This should be fixed.