OK, I know that ActiveState provide builds for this platform, but the underlying perl build on my target machine is not one that AS supplied, but one that came with Solaris, hence PPM is not an option
How so? Sure, AS might not make binaires for you, so all that means is that you have to make binaries for you. You know how your perl was built, so duplicate the build environment, and build the extensions, and make the PPM packages. Many-a-monk do this.

As for dependencies, the question has come up a few times here on perlmonks, so do a search. The following modules should be of interest: Module::Dependency, Module::ScanDeps, Module::CoreList, Module::Info, ExtUtils::Installed, ExtUtils::Install

MJD says you can't just make shit up and expect the computer to know what you mean, retardo!
I run a Win32 PPM repository for perl 5.6x+5.8x. I take requests.
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In reply to Re: Re: Re: The quest for pure perl by PodMaster
in thread The quest for pure perl by rinceWind

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