My guess would be that your ActivePerl hasn't been built with gcc, but rather with the system cc.  Perl extension modules must generally be built with the same compiler / compiler options as the Perl binary itself, which is why Perl "remembers" those settings (do a "perl -V" to check yourself). That's most likely where the system cc specific -KPIC option originates from. The respective gcc option would in theory be -fPIC, however, simply substituting one for the other is probably not going to get you very far, as this is not the only difference between the two compilers...

In short, I think your options are

• get hold of Sun's system compiler, and try again with that (but do a "perl -V" to verify my theory, before investing too much effort...)
• build Perl yourself from scratch, using gcc
• install binary packages pre-built for ActivePerl 5.8.8 (if available)

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