perl5.12: pp.c:(.text+0x2f3a): undefined reference to `pow'

[rudloff@…]

I cannot build perl5.12 on Ubuntu:

/usr/bin/cc -L/opt/local/lib -fstack-protector -o miniperl \
	      gv.o toke.o perly.o pad.o regcomp.o dump.o util.o mg.o reentr.o mro.o hv.o av.o run.o pp_hot.o sv.o pp.o scope.o pp_ctl.o pp_sys.o doop.o doio.o regexec.o utf8.o taint.o deb.o universal.o globals.o perlio.o perlapi.o numeric.o mathoms.o locale.o pp_pack.o pp_sort.o   \
	    miniperlmain.o opmini.o perlmini.o -lgdbm 
pp.o: In function `Perl_pp_pow':
pp.c:(.text+0x2f3a): undefined reference to `pow'
pp.o: In function `Perl_pp_modulo':
pp.c:(.text+0x3a50): undefined reference to `floor'
pp.c:(.text+0x3a77): undefined reference to `floor'
pp.c:(.text+0x3dbe): undefined reference to `fmod'
pp.o: In function `Perl_pp_atan2':
pp.c:(.text+0x88f0): undefined reference to `atan2'
pp.o: In function `Perl_pp_sin':
pp.c:(.text+0x8a64): undefined reference to `sin'
pp.o: In function `Perl_pp_int':
pp.c:(.text+0x8e34): undefined reference to `floor'
pp.c:(.text+0x8f4c): undefined reference to `ceil'
pp.o:(.rodata+0x1c4): undefined reference to `cos'
pp.o:(.rodata+0x1c8): undefined reference to `sin'
pp.o:(.rodata+0x1cc): undefined reference to `sin'
pp.o:(.rodata+0x1d0): undefined reference to `exp'
pp.o:(.rodata+0x1d4): undefined reference to `log'
pp.o:(.rodata+0x1d8): undefined reference to `sqrt'
pp_sys.o: In function `S_gmtime64_r.isra.3':
pp_sys.c:(.text+0x1ca): undefined reference to `ceil'
pp_sys.c:(.text+0x223): undefined reference to `ceil'
pp_sys.c:(.text+0x27c): undefined reference to `ceil'
pp_sys.c:(.text+0x34e): undefined reference to `floor'
pp_sys.c:(.text+0x530): undefined reference to `ceil'
pp_sys.c:(.text+0x699): undefined reference to `floor'
pp_sys.c:(.text+0x6f1): undefined reference to `floor'
pp_sys.c:(.text+0x701): undefined reference to `floor'
pp_sys.c:(.text+0x789): undefined reference to `fmod'
pp_sys.c:(.text+0x7c2): undefined reference to `fmod'
pp_sys.c:(.text+0x7f9): undefined reference to `fmod'
pp_sys.c:(.text+0x826): undefined reference to `fmod'
pp_sys.o: In function `Perl_pp_gmtime':
pp_sys.c:(.text+0xd110): undefined reference to `floor'
pp_pack.o: In function `S_pack_rec':
pp_pack.c:(.text+0x327a): undefined reference to `floor'
pp_pack.c:(.text+0x329e): undefined reference to `floor'
pp_pack.c:(.text+0x32b8): undefined reference to `floor'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

[mojca (Mojca Miklavec)]

Upstream no longer maintains perl5.12 and MacPorts no longer ships it. Not that MacPorts really support Linux, but if you would still like to compile perl5.22 from MacPorts on Linux, at least open a new ticket as this log is certainly no longer relevant after so many years.