As chargrill pointed out, there traditionally have been issues with anything compiled 'by hand' on Solaris boxes, since the Sun C Compilers and the gcc compiler suite tend to hiss and spit at each other.

You might see if the Sun Software site has a pkg-add already built for Xerces (pre-compiled by them under Solaris10, using the same Perl version and all the libraries that they included on the distribution CDs). I sometimes lucked out that way and they had just what I needed on the shelf. The folks who ran SunSoft were pretty good about building me a new package built within 48 hours of my asking for the things they didn't already stock. (Granted, this was Sun back in the late-nineties, but....)

I recall spending one entire summer installing and reinstalling Perl 5.6.1 and all of its friends and relations from scratch using the gcc compiler. After the third or fourth iteration of "Rats, here's another package with XS; well I do know how to recompile world ...", I finally decided that letting Sun do the hard-stuff was the better plan; after all, that's what we had a service/maintenance contract for.

I don't know how things will play now that Solaris is getting itself Open-Sourced, but I suspect that I'd be able to work around it by booting from the CDs to perform my initial 'make world' using the source from the CDs and the compiler that I down-loaded from the GNU repository.

Anyway, I'd check the Sun down-load sites to see if I can get a pre-built version of anything that requires compilation.

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In reply to Re: Xerces-p install issues on Perl 5.8.8 by Old_Gray_Bear
in thread Xerces-p install issues on Perl 5.8.8 by jbrose

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