Subj : Re: Building with perl hooks To : Alan Ianson From : Paul Hayton Date : Wed Jan 12 2022 05:23 pm On 11 Jan 2022 at 07:37p, Alan Ianson pondered and said... AI> Run ./configure --help and you can see the options. I think I used AI> --with-perl or something similar. Bugger, I used the switch but when it compiles it looks like it is not adding it in? I wonder why. When I run it with the perl-hooks keyword in the config it errors and says unknown keyword. Thing is the config process seems to work OK and I can see the following when I run the process avon@orac:/hub/temp/binkd2/binkd$ ./configure --with-perl checking for gawk... no checking for mawk... mawk checking for gcc... gcc checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking for suffix of executables... checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /usr/bin/grep checking for egrep... /usr/bin/grep -E checking for ANSI C header files... yes checking for sys/types.h... yes checking for sys/stat.h... yes checking for stdlib.h... yes checking for string.h... yes checking for memory.h... yes checking for strings.h... yes checking for inttypes.h... yes checking for stdint.h... yes checking for unistd.h... yes checking for inttypes.h... (cached) yes checking for stdint.h... (cached) yes checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes checking sys/vfs.h usability... yes checking sys/vfs.h presence... yes checking for sys/vfs.h... yes checking sys/statfs.h usability... yes checking sys/statfs.h presence... yes checking for sys/statfs.h... yes checking sys/statvfs.h usability... yes checking sys/statvfs.h presence... yes checking for sys/statvfs.h... yes checking sys/param.h usability... yes checking sys/param.h presence... yes checking for sys/param.h... yes checking for sys/mount.h... yes checking arpa/inet.h usability... yes checking arpa/inet.h presence... yes checking for arpa/inet.h... yes checking sys/ioctl.h usability... yes checking sys/ioctl.h presence... yes checking for sys/ioctl.h... yes checking sys/time.h usability... yes checking sys/time.h presence... yes checking for sys/time.h... yes checking stdarg.h usability... yes checking stdarg.h presence... yes checking for stdarg.h... yes checking io.h usability... no checking io.h presence... no checking for io.h... no checking netinet/in.h usability... yes checking netinet/in.h presence... yes checking for netinet/in.h... yes checking netdb.h usability... yes checking netdb.h presence... yes checking for netdb.h... yes checking arpa/nameser.h usability... yes checking arpa/nameser.h presence... yes checking for arpa/nameser.h... yes checking for resolv.h... yes checking for snprintf... yes checking for vsnprintf... yes checking for vsyslog... yes checking for waitpid... yes checking for statvfs... yes checking for statfs... yes checking for uname... yes checking for daemon... yes checking for setsid... yes checking for getopt... yes checking for localtime_r... yes checking for strtoumax... yes checking for sigprocmask... yes checking for gettimeofday... yes checking for special C compiler options needed for large files... no checking for _FILE_OFFSET_BITS value needed for large files... no checking for _LARGEFILE_SOURCE value needed for large files... no checking for socket... yes checking for gethostbyname... yes checking for setproctitle... no checking for setproctitle in -lutil... no checking for res_search... no checking for res_search in libresolv... yes checking for ns_initparse... yes checking size of short... 2 checking size of int... 4 checking size of long... 8 checking for socklen_t... yes checking for intmax_t... yes checking for reliable signals... yes checking for facilitynames... yes checking for TIOCNOTTY... yes checking for MSG_NOSIGNAL... yes checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl checking for libperl... /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.28 checking for working libperl... yes checking for perl multiplicity... yes checking for libz... yes: /usr checking for libbz2... yes: /usr configure: creating ./config.status config.status: creating Makefile avon@orac:/hub/temp/binkd2/binkd$ make Making depends... Linking binkd... Binkd is successfully compiled. Do the missing 'yes' against the perl lines mean my version is not what is required for perl? Hmm --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/11/06 (Linux/64) * Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (3:770/100) .