Compiling Perl 5.36.0 fails on OS X 10.5.8 PowerPC

[Ahven]

I need a newer version of Perl to my Apple Power G5 running OS X 10.5.8. The system is supposed to be standard with all the updates Apple provides and the latest XCode available to it.

I'm trying to install Perl 5.36.0 from source tar ball following this guide:

perlmacosx - Perl under Mac OS X - Perldoc Browser

perldoc.perl.org

After unpacking the tar ball with
gunzip < perl-5.36.0.tar.gz | tar xfv -

I run:
SDK=/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.5.sdk \ ./Configure \ -Dprefix=$HOME/opt/perl \ -Uloclibpth -Dlibpth=/usr/lib \ -Accflags="-nostdinc -B$SDK/usr/include/gcc \ -B$SDK/usr/lib/gcc -isystem$SDK/usr/include \ -F$SDK/System/Library/Frameworks" \ -Aldflags="-Wl,-syslibroot,$SDK" \ -de

I have tried many other ways also but make always fails with:

cc -c -std=gnu99 -fno-common -DPERL_DARWIN -nostdinc -B/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.5.sdk//usr/include/gcc -B/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.5.sdk//usr/lib/gcc -isystem/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.5.sdk//usr/include -F/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.5.sdk//System/Library/Frameworks -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fstack-protector -I/opt/local/include -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV -Wall -Wextra -Wno-long-long -Wno-declaration-after-statement -Wwrite-strings -Wno-error=implicit-function-declaration -O3 -DVERSION=\"1.52\" -DXS_VERSION=\"1.52\" "-I../.." -DLIBC="" DynaLoader.c cc1: error: unrecognized command line option "-Wno-error=implicit-function-declaration" make[1]: *** [DynaLoader.o] Error 1 cc -c -std=gnu99 -fno-common -DPERL_DARWIN -nostdinc -B/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.5.sdk//usr/include/gcc -B/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.5.sdk//usr/lib/gcc -isystem/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.5.sdk//usr/include -F/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.5.sdk//System/Library/Frameworks -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fstack-protector -I/opt/local/include -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV -Wall -Wextra -Wno-long-long -Wno-declaration-after-statement -Wwrite-strings -Wno-error=implicit-function-declaration -O3 -DVERSION=\"1.52\" -DXS_VERSION=\"1.52\" "-I../.." -DLIBC="" DynaLoader.c cc1: error: unrecognized command line option "-Wno-error=implicit-function-declaration" make[1]: *** [DynaLoader.o] Error 1 Unsuccessful make(ext/DynaLoader): code=512 at make_ext.pl line 584. make: *** [DynaLoader.o] Error 25

Any ideas?

 

[joevt]

Try perl from TigerBrew?
https://github.com/mistydemeo/tigerbrew

I've tried TigerBrew for other stuff (such as flashrom) but not for perl.
https://tinkerdifferent.com/threads...ac-impossibru-updated-2-21-23.1494/post-21003

 

[cellularmitosis]

Your build is failing because the stock gcc doesn’t recognize that compiler flag. However, gcc-4.2 does work with that flag, see http://leopard.sh/leopardsh/scripts/install-perl-5.36.0.sh

You can download gcc-4.2 here http://leopard.sh/dist/gcc-42-5553-darwin8-all.tar.gz (unpack that tarball into /).

You may also want to:

sed -i '' -e 's/MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.3/MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.5/' config.sh

 

[barracuda156]

Since no one mentioned Macports, it should install with sudo port install perl5.36.

Cannot test on 10.5.8 now, but on 10.6 PPC it builds fine, just checked now. (Xcode of 10A190 uses an earlier version of gcc-4.2 than 10.6.x releases.)

 

[Nightphase]

It works fine with MacPorts on 10.4.11