List::Util on AIX - ERROR: Undefined symbol: .Perl_seed

[usenet]

I'm trying to install List::Util 1.18 (a fairly common and significant
module, IMHO) onto a new IBM POWER5-based p520 with AIX 5.3.

I'm getting a linker error (I don't really understand this stuff, BTW)
when I 'make test'

...
rm -f blib/arch/auto/List/Util/Util.so
ld -bhalt:4 -bM:SRE
-bI:/usr/opt/perl5/lib/5.8.2/aix-thread-multi/CORE/perl.exp
-bE:Util.exp -bnoentry -lpthreads -lc_r Util.o -o
blib/arch/auto/List/Util/Util.so
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .Perl_seed
ld: 0711-345 Use -bloadmap or -bnoquiet for more information
make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 8.

I did add the -bnoquiet flag to the ld command and it produced a lot of
output which (finally) said .Perl_seed was an undefined symbol, which I
already knew (and I won't clutter up usenet with all that output unless
someone asks me to).

Any help is appreciated!

 

[usenet]

I'm trying to install List::Util 1.18...

Hmmm... Version 1.17 installs on this machine without complaint.

Do you suppose I ought to bother Graham about this?

 

[Sisyphus]

Hmmm... Version 1.17 installs on this machine without complaint.

Do you suppose I ought to bother Graham about this?

He already knows about it. See
http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=16199

The fix he reports there (which works for me) is to change line 315 in
Util.xs from

#if (PERL_VERSION < 8) || (PERL_VERSION == 8 && PERL_SUBVERSION <1)

to

#if (PERL_VERSION < 9)

Cheers,
Rob

 

[usenet]

He already knows about it. See
http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=16199

Ah, indeed. Somehow that page isn't indexed in a general Google
query... I guess it was a bit careless of me to rely on Google only and
not actually drill down in CPAN.

FWIW, making the suggested change to UTIL.xs did the trick...

Thanks Rob!