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Building CPAN modules on Solaris might be a bit different than on your
+ average Linux platform. Here is the reason why:

...
Luckily Solaris comes with a tool called perlgcc that fixes this probl
+em. It will make sure that modules are build with gcc rather than the
+ Sun Studio compiler. Instead of invoking perl Makefile.PL to generat
+e the makefile needed to compile a module, perlgcc Makefile.PL should
+ be used instead. All command-line arguments to perlgcc are passed un
+modified to perl.

Needless to say you can forget all in this article if you have Sun Stu
+dio compiler installed and wish to use that for building modules. How
+ever most Perl modules have only been tested to compile with the GNU 
+C/C++ compiler so if you do not want trouble stick with the recipe in
+ this article.

perl Makefile.PL

perlgcc Makefile.PL

[db07-dc2:~] root% ./dbitest.pl
ld.so.1: perl: fatal: relocation error: file /usr/perl5/site_perl/5.8.
+4/sun4-solaris-64int/auto/DBD/Oracle/Oracle.so: symbol OCINlsEnvironm
+entVariableGet: referenced symbol not found
Killed

#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
...
                        "$PASS",
                      ) || die "Database connection not made: $DBI::er
+rstr";
$dbh->disconnect;

[db07-dc2:~] root% uname -a
SunOS db07-dc2 5.10 Generic_147440-09 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-15000

[db07-dc2:~] root% perl -v

This is perl, v5.8.4 built for sun4-solaris-64int
(with 36 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail)