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Writing Makefile for Devel::WeakRef
cp lib/Devel/WeakRef.pm blib/lib/Devel/WeakRef.pm
/home/cpanrun/ia64/build/5.8.2/bin/perl /home/cpanrun/ia64/build/5.8.2/lib/5.8.2/ExtUtils/xsubpp  -typemap /home/cpanrun/ia64/build/5.8.2/lib/5.8.2/ExtUtils/typemap  WeakRef.xs > WeakRef.xsc && mv WeakRef.xsc WeakRef.c
Please specify prototyping behavior for WeakRef.xs (see perlxs manual)
cc -c   -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L -D_REENTRANT -Ae -D_HPUX_SOURCE -Wl,+vnocompatwarnings -DNO_HASH_SEED -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -fast +DSitanium2 +Ofltacc=strict   -DVERSION=\"0.003\" -DXS_VERSION=\"0.003\" +Z "-I/home/cpanrun/ia64/build/5.8.2/lib/5.8.2/IA64.ARCHREV_0-thread-multi/CORE"   WeakRef.c
Warning 942: "WeakRef.xs", line 42 # Types 'int (*)(interpreter *,sv *,magic *)' and 'int (*)(sv *,magic *)' are not assignment-compatible.
    static MGVTBL actual_vtbl = { 0L , 0L , 0L , 0L , actual_free};
                                                      ^^^^^^^^^^^  
Warning 942: "WeakRef.xs", line 54 # Types 'int (*)(interpreter *,sv *,magic *)' and 'int (*)(sv *,magic *)' are not assignment-compatible.
    static MGVTBL cell_vtbl = { 0L , cell_munge, 0L , cell_munge, 0L };
                                     ^^^^^^^^^^                        
Warning 942: "WeakRef.xs", line 54 # Types 'int (*)(interpreter *,sv *,magic *)' and 'int (*)(sv *,magic *)' are not assignment-compatible.
    static MGVTBL cell_vtbl = { 0L , cell_munge, 0L , cell_munge, 0L };
                                                      ^^^^^^^^^^       
Error 172: "WeakRef.xs", line 119 # Undeclared variable 'sv_undef'.
    Interpreter *) pthread_getspecific((*Perl_Gthr_key_ptr(0L)))), &sv_undef) ;
                                                                    ^^^^^^^^   
make: *** [WeakRef.o] Error 2
PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /home/cpanrun/ia64/build/5.8.2/bin/perl "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e" "test_harness(1, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t
t/Devel-Weakref....dubious
	Test returned status 0 (wstat 138, 0x8a)
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#0  0x417d060:1 in S_new_xrv+0x41 ()
(gdb) #0  0x417d060:1 in S_new_xrv+0x41 ()
#1  0x417f230:0 in Perl_sv_upgrade+0x6b0 ()
#2  0x418cbd0:0 in Perl_sv_setsv_flags+0x1380 ()
#3  0x416a560:0 in Perl_pp_aassign+0xe70 ()
#4  0x415e440:0 in Perl_runops_standard+0xe0 ()
#5  0x4071cc0:0 in S_call_body+0xa0 ()
#6  0x40714f0:0 in Perl_call_sv+0xa70 ()
#7  0x4195540:0 in Perl_sv_clear+0x3f0 ()
#8  0x417ba30:0 in Perl_sv_free+0x110 ()
#9  0x41918e0:0 in Perl_sv_unref_flags+0xe0 ()
#10 0x41917a0:0 in Perl_sv_force_normal_flags+0x220 ()
#11 0x41ea740:0 in Perl_leave_scope+0x18d0 ()
#12 0x41e8e40:0 in Perl_pop_scope+0x60 ()
#13 0x41fe580:0 in Perl_die_where+0x4f0 ()
#14 0x41275c0:0 in Perl_vcroak+0x8e0 ()
#15 0x41280d0:0 in Perl_croak_nocontext+0xd0 ()
#16 0x60000000c23ad1d0:0 in cell_munge+0xd0 ()
   from /home/cpanrun/depot/main/contrib-patched/perl/CPAN/src/Devel-WeakRef/blib/arch/auto/Devel/WeakRef/WeakRef.so
#17 0x4132760:0 in Perl_mg_set+0x190 ()
#18 0x419ff60:0 in Perl_sv_bless+0x2e0 ()
#19 0x60000000c23ae1a0:0 in XS_Devel__WeakRef_new+0x760 ()
   from /home/cpanrun/depot/main/contrib-patched/perl/CPAN/src/Devel-WeakRef/blib/arch/auto/Devel/WeakRef/WeakRef.so
#20 0x4176fc0:0 in Perl_pp_entersub+0x9e0 ()
#21 0x415e440:0 in Perl_runops_standard+0xe0 ()
#22 0x4070080:0 in S_run_body+0x260 ()
#23 0x406f550:0 in perl_run+0x100 ()
#24 0x405da50:0 in main+0x1b0 ()
(gdb) 
FAILED--1 test script could be run, alas--no output ever seen
make: *** [test_dynamic] Error 2