Things like yer gcc can be had by installing the Software COmpanion. This CD has a huggy-feely GUI install, and will put your freeware under /opt/sfw ... of course, as mentioned in this thread, sites like Sunfreeware have more packages that generally install in /usr/local

The problem I see you having is that modules that use XS will harf when being built because it's expecting Sun's compiler. I had to tweak my Config.pm (/usr/perl5/5.00503/i866pc-solaris/Config.pm in my case) to get gcc to be the compiler, get "-fPIC" to be the way we build position-independent code, etc... after that, modules needing XS seemed to compile properly.

Update: I should note that I'm assuming you're using the perl that comes with Solaris 8. If you install any other version, YMMV here.

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In reply to Re: Is anyone using Solaris 8? by yakko
in thread Is anyone using Solaris 8? by el-moe

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