installation meltdown on RHEL AS4.1

Hi Wil,

> I've been fighting with this all day, please excuse any
frustration that
> might filter through 
> I've been trying to build P4, and am being continually
thwarted when i run
> make.
>
> perforce version is R06.1 , so i'm attempting to
compile the p4api from
> bin.linux26x86/
> i have gcc3, and i have perl 5.8.5
>
> since gcc2 seems to cause everyone else's problems
here's a gcc-v:
>
> [rootvulcan P4-3.5313]# gcc -v
> Reading specs from
/usr/lib/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/3.4.3/specs
> Configured with: ../configure --prefix=/usr
--mandir=/usr/share/man
> --infodir=/usr/share/info --enable-shared
--enable-threads=posix
> --disable-checking --with-system-zlib
--enable-__cxa_atexit
> --disable-libunwind-exceptions --enable-java-awt=gtk
> --host=i386-redhat-linux
> Thread model: posix
> gcc version 3.4.3 20050227 (Red Hat 3.4.3-22.1)
>
> here's what the compiler spits out when i run make
(after perl Makefile.PL)
>
> [rootvulcan P4-3.5313]# make
> cd lib && make
> make[1]: Entering directory `/root/P4-3.5313/lib'
> c++ -c  -I/root/p4api -Ilib -D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE
-DDEBUGGING
> -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include
-D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
> -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -I/usr/include/gdbm -O2 -g -pipe
-m32 -march=i386
> -mtune=pentium4   -DVERSION=""
-DXS_VERSION="" -fPIC
>
"-I/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi/CORE&qu
ot;  -DOS_LINUX
> -Dconst_char='char' -D_BSD_SOURCE -D_SVID_SOURCE
-DP4API_VERSION=513537
> perlclientapi.cc
> In file included from perlclientapi.cc:56:
> perlclientuser.h:50: error: conflicting return type
specified for `virtual
> void PerlClientUser::OutputText(char*, int)'
> /root/p4api/clientuser.h:160: error:   overriding
`virtual int
> ClientUser::OutputText(char*, int)'
> perlclientuser.h:51: error: conflicting return type
specified for `virtual
> void PerlClientUser::OutputInfo(char, char*)'
> /root/p4api/clientuser.h:156: error:   overriding
`virtual int
> ClientUser::OutputInfo(char, char*)'
> perlclientuser.h:53: error: conflicting return type
specified for `virtual
> void PerlClientUser::OutputBinary(char*, int)'
> /root/p4api/clientuser.h:158: error:   overriding
`virtual int
> ClientUser::OutputBinary(char*, int)'
> make[1]: *** [perlclientapi.o] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/P4-3.5313/lib'
> make: *** [lib/libp4.a] Error 2

Thanks for all the detail - that really helps!

I think this may be a bug, P4Perl needs to be updated to
support the 2006.1 
API which did away with the horrible const_char stuff we had
in older APIs.

Could you try with the 2005.2 API and see if that works (you
can still use it 
to talk to a 2006.1 server)? I'll take a look at what needs
to change in the 
code.

Thanks,

Tony
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