Building Perl 5.10 failure

[tqisjim]

Hello. I am trying to build Perl 5.10 on my machine, Ubuntu 12.04 32bit. I can build other versions, such as 5.8, 5.12, 5.14, and 5.16. Here is the output:

cc -fstack-protector -L/usr/local/lib -o miniperl \
          gv.o toke.o perly.o pad.o regcomp.o dump.o util.o mg.o reent
+r.o mro.o hv.o av.o run.o pp_hot.o sv.o pp.o scope.o pp_ctl.o pp_sys.
+o doop.o doio.o regexec.o utf8.o taint.o deb.o universal.o xsutils.o 
+globals.o perlio.o perlapi.o numeric.o mathoms.o locale.o pp_pack.o p
+p_sort.o  \
        miniperlmain.o opmini.o perlmini.o 
pp.o: In function `Perl_pp_pow':
pp.c:(.text+0x29f4): undefined reference to `pow'
pp.o: In function `Perl_pp_modulo':
pp.c:(.text+0x33b0): undefined reference to `floor'
pp.c:(.text+0x33d7): undefined reference to `floor'
pp.c:(.text+0x36be): undefined reference to `fmod'
pp.o: In function `Perl_pp_atan2':
pp.c:(.text+0x7e4f): undefined reference to `atan2'
pp.o: In function `Perl_pp_sin':
pp.c:(.text+0x7fc4): undefined reference to `sin'
pp.o: In function `Perl_pp_int':
pp.c:(.text+0x8431): undefined reference to `floor'
pp.c:(.text+0x8451): undefined reference to `ceil'
pp.o:(.rodata+0x164): undefined reference to `cos'
pp.o:(.rodata+0x168): undefined reference to `sin'
pp.o:(.rodata+0x16c): undefined reference to `sin'
pp.o:(.rodata+0x170): undefined reference to `exp'
pp.o:(.rodata+0x174): undefined reference to `log'
pp.o:(.rodata+0x178): undefined reference to `sqrt'
pp_pack.o: In function `S_pack_rec':
pp_pack.c:(.text+0x30ea): undefined reference to `floor'
pp_pack.c:(.text+0x310c): undefined reference to `floor'
pp_pack.c:(.text+0x3128): undefined reference to `floor'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [miniperl] Error 1

I always run ./Configure -des . Can anyone tell me if this version has special requirements? Thanks! Jim

[tobyink]

I've successfully built Perl 5.10.1 on Ubuntu 12.10 32-bit via App::perlbrew.

If you don't want to use perlbrew, then I'd suggest at least using Devel::PatchPerl to apply known fixes to the source tree before building it, though I can't say for sure whether any of them specifically solve the error you're getting.

[Tux]

You are missing the math library (-lm).

But WHY are you building such an ancient version? perl-5.16.3 is out. I see no reason to use 5.10.1.

[tobyink]

Personally I've got one version of each stable line from 5.6.x to 5.16.x for testing purposes. I do nearly all development on 5.16.2 though. (I haven't seen a compelling reason to go 5.16.3 given that 5.18.0 will be out Real Soon Now.)

[Tux]

I have over 100 versions of perl on my laptop starting with perl1 and including all development releases. When you do so - like you - to test (your own) stuff, one might be expected to have enough experience to recognize build errors and fix them where appropriate. For all others, there is Devel::PatchPerl if one really needs a historic build for whatever purpose,

The OP did not mention a single reason for building a perl so old.