[perl #58958] Build of 0.7.1 fails with Intel compiler on Linux

[James Keenan via RT]

On Mon Nov 24 05:47:10 2008, vrkosk at iki.fi wrote:
> Parrot revision: 33133
> Test system: Ubuntu 8.04 64-bit (on Intel Core2 Quad)
> Compilers tested:
>  1. Intel C Compiler 9.1.042 32-bit
>  2. Intel C Compiler 9.1.042 64-bit
>  3. Intel C Compiler 10.1.015 32-bit
>  4. Intel C Compiler 10.1.015 64-bit
>  5. GCC 4.2.4 32-bit
>  6. GCC 4.2.4 64-bit
> 
> Tests and output in the above numerical order. Conclusions:
> - The --m=32 flag for Configure.pl doesn't work well.
> - --ldflags doesn't propagate properly or the user-supplied parameter is
>   ignored (see attempt 3 in GCC 32-bit and attempt 3 in ICC 9.1 32-bit)
> - Compiling succeeds with the following flags:
>    2. perl Configure.pl --cc=icc --cxx=icc --ld=icc
>    4. perl Configure.pl --cc=icc --cxx=icc --ld=icc
>    6. perl Configure.pl 
>    1, 3, 5: no success
> 

Thanks for the thorough report.  I'm reposting your summary of it here
because RT hides the body of the report.

kid51