OT: Sco 5.0.7 gcc/make

[Bill Campbell]

On Tue, Aug 16, 2022, Fairlight via Filepro-list wrote:
>On Tue, Aug 16, 2022 at 11:36:41AM -0400, Brian K. White via Filepro-list thus spoke:
>> 
>> The more difficult problem is that Perl modules can be pretty hairy to build
>> and then later to run, because usually you have to build them with the same
>> environment that was used to build the rest of the perl installation that
>> they will run in, and I *think* the stock Perl was built with the stock
>> compiler, and when you try to build a module with the gcc environment, you
>> either can't build it or you can't run it, unless you want to try to build
>> and install a whole separate perl installation, or buy a license for the
>> stock compiler.

I have built newer versions leaving the old modules by modifying otherlibs
so that the older versions are where perl can find them.

It's been decades though since I did any development on OpenServer, and my
ftp.celestial.com archives have gone away on an external HD I wiped before
sending it to the recycler.

I use the OpenPKG package manager on all our Linux servers now which makes
it relatively easy to build perl stuff although it can still be a PITA
occassionally.

>I've had that, and I've had exceptions.  It really, really depends upon
>the module in question, and exactly how it was written.
>
>I can authoritatively say that stock Perl core will build but not work
>properly if done with gcc.  If you build modules, though, it's about an
>80% success rate of them working, in my experience.
>
>This may have worsened as the rift between core and CPAN abandonware has
>grown substantially, to the point I've tossed over Perl for Python
>(finally following in Bill Campbell's footsteps).

I've spent quite a bit of time migrating all my python utilities from
python-2.7 to python-3.10, but only on my current builds on Raspberry PI
and AlmaLinux systems.  It's always interesting working on old, stable,
systems, particularly as the openssl and related software can be a problem.

Bill
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