Ok, this confirms my suspicion, i.e. the ActivePerl binary has been built with the Sun WorkShop 6 C compiler. In that case, I don't think there's an easy way to get things to work with gcc. In other words, I'm afraid you'll have to try one of the other options I mentioned.

If you have a Sun C compiler (probably doesn't have to be this very version), I'd go with that. Otherwise, I'd try to find pre-built PPM packages (I'm not using PPM myself, so I can't help out with links to good repositories...), or as a last resort, build your own Perl from the sources using gcc. In the latter case, when everything is consistently making use of the same compiler framework, you shouldn't have any problems building extension modules. Good luck.

In reply to Re^5: Problem installing perl modules by almut
in thread Problem installing perl modules by kraas

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