When compiling perl-5.10.1 on a uclibc system, the ebuild fails because perl's Configure adds -fstack-protector to the linker flags. This causes miniperl to segfault and the emerge stops. This cannot be resolved by passing options to Configure, so I have provided a patch which fixes the issue. The patch should probably only be applied if the elibc_uclibc USE flag is detected in the ebuild. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge perl Actual Results: miniperl segfaults and the emerge aborts Expected Results: emerged and installed Patch follows...
Created attachment 207539 [details, diff] Comments out parts of perl's Configure script which cause the segfaults
Can you please paste the part where it fails?
Created attachment 207666 [details] [ebuild R ] dev-lang/perl-5.10.1-r12 USE="-berkdb -debug -doc -gdbm -ithreads"
Created attachment 207667 [details] This is the complete build log which shows what happens without the patch I was told by a developer on #gentoo-embedded that this particular issue is related to https://bugs.gentoo.org/149292 and might better be corrected with the associated 50_all_gcc44_no_ssp_tls_uclibc.patch
(In reply to comment #4) > I was told by a developer on #gentoo-embedded that this particular issue is > related to https://bugs.gentoo.org/149292 and might better be corrected with > the associated 50_all_gcc44_no_ssp_tls_uclibc.patch Do I get it right: this means we don't have to change the perl ebuild?
I tested the 50_all_gcc44_no_ssp_tls_uclibc.patch and it did indeed resolve the issue, so I would suggest rather to patch gcc if "use elibc_uclibc" is detected because it would in theory fix any other programs which also use the -fstack-protector switch instead of just fixing issues with the Perl package.
