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A few years back I asked about compiling a 64-bit Perl on SPARC Solaris. Since then it looks like steps have been taken to make this a lot easier as I just did it with Perl 5.8.7 on Solaris 8. But just in case some are still having trouble here is how I built it. Things under /opt/sfw are from SUN's Software Companion CD and things in /usr/local are usually GNU utilities that I compiled earlier. You will want to replace the target paths with something appropriate to your environment (I am planning on installing everything I compile with gcc 4.0.2 under /usr/local402). I'll post config.sh as a reply since it is so long.

gcc -v

Using built-in specs.
Target: sparc-sun-solaris2.8
Configured with: /export2/build/gcc402/gcc-4.0.2/configure --prefix=/u
+sr/local402 --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-threads=posix --enable-sha
+red --enable-PIC --with-as=/usr/ccs/bin/as --with-ld=/usr/ccs/bin/ld 
+--with-ar=/usr/local/bin/ar --with-sed=/opt/sfw/bin/gsed
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.0.2
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perl -V

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 8 subversion 7) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=solaris, osvers=2.8, archname=sun4-solaris-thread-multi-64
    uname='sunos searay 5.8 generic_108528-17 sun4u sparc sunw,sun-fir
+e-880 '
    config_args='-d'
    hint=previous, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    usethreads=define use5005threads=undef useithreads=define usemulti
+plicity=define
    useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef
    use64bitint=define use64bitall=define uselongdouble=undef
    usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='/usr/local402/bin/gcc', ccflags ='-m64 -D_REENTRANT -fno-stric
+t-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include -mcpu=v9 -m64 -Wa,-xarch=v9 -D_
+LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64',
    optimize='-O3',
    cppflags='-m64 -D_REENTRANT -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/loca
+l/include -m64 -D_REENTRANT -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/i
+nclude -mcpu=v9 -m64 -Wa,-xarch=v9 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET
+_BITS=64'
    ccversion='', gccversion='4.0.2', gccosandvers=''
    intsize=4, longsize=8, ptrsize=8, doublesize=8, byteorder=87654321
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=1
+6
    ivtype='long', ivsize=8, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t',
+ lseeksize=8
    alignbytes=8, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='/usr/local402/bin/gcc', ldflags ='-m64 -L/usr/local/lib -m64 '
    libpth=/usr/local402/lib /usr/local/lib /usr/lib /usr/ccs/lib
    libs=-lsocket -lnsl -ldl -lm -lpthread -lc
    perllibs=-lsocket -lnsl -ldl -lm -lpthread -lc
    libc=/usr/lib/sparcv9/libc.so, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=li
+bperl.a
    gnulibc_version=''
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' '
    cccdlflags='-fPIC', lddlflags=' -G -m64 -L/usr/local/lib'


Characteristics of this binary (from libperl):
  Compile-time options: MULTIPLICITY USE_ITHREADS USE_64_BIT_INT
                        USE_64_BIT_ALL USE_LARGE_FILES
                        PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT
  Built under solaris
  Compiled at Jan 19 2006 15:43:47
  @INC:
    /usr/local402/lib/5.8.7/sun4-solaris-thread-multi-64
    /usr/local402/lib/5.8.7
    /usr/local402/lib/site_perl/5.8.7/sun4-solaris-thread-multi-64
    /usr/local402/lib/site_perl/5.8.7
    /usr/local402/lib/site_perl
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2006-01-21 Retitled by planetscape, as per Monastery guidelines
Original title: '64-bit Perl on SPARC Solaris'

In reply to config.sh, as promised (Re: 64-bit Perl on SPARC Solaris) by Argel

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