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From: ggordon@agsm.ucla.edu (Glen Gordon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp,comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: libc.a error when linking perl3.0 on HP-UX 3.10
Message-ID: <1989Nov10.174805.24464@agsm.ucla.edu>
Date: 10 Nov 89 17:48:05 GMT
References: <127@geysir.os.is>
Organization: UCLA, Anderson Graduate School Of Management
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From article <127@geysir.os.is>, by eik@os.is (Einar Kjartansson):
> Whe I try to make perl version 3.0, patch level 1, I get the following
> output. I tried this also telling perl to use its onw malloc, it made no
> difference. This looks like an error in the hp-ux library.
> The system is hp-ux 3.10 running on a HP 9000/825.
> 
> 	cc   array.o cmd.o cons.o consarg.o doarg.o doio.o dolist.o dump.o 
> eval.o form.o hash.o malloc.o perly.o regcomp.o regexec.o stab.o str.o 
> toke.o util.o perl.o -lm -ldbm    -o perl
> /bin/ld: Target of conditional branch is out of range
>    Reference from:  /lib/libc.a(syscall.o)(0x3c)
> /bin/ld: Invalid fixups exist
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop.
> -- 
>   Einar Kjartansson                           | eik@os.is
>   Orkustofnun (National Energy Authority)     | eik@geysir.uucp
>   Grensasvegi 9, IS-108 Reykjavik, Iceland    | mcvax!hafro!geysir!eik
>   Phone: 354-1-83600    Fax: 354-1-688896    Home: 354-1-16407
I too had this problem on HP-UX 3.11 until I undef'd SYSCALL in
config.sh and reran the .SH scripts.  After that all went well and all the tests ran perfectly.
I assume that HP's syscall, which is not documented anywhere I know about
is not intended for public consumption.  
-- 
Glen Gordon
UCLA, Anderson Graduate School Of Management