"Why it is so hard to install a CPAN module?"

It isn't really

You say you've installed gcc, but are you sure you're not using the sun studio compiler here? cc: unrecognized option `-KPIC' looks suspicious to me. What does perl -V output? You should use the same compiler for perl modules as was used to compiler the version of perl you are running.

Perl 5.8.4 is very old. Consider building yourself a recent version from source, using gcc, installing to somewhere else, eg:

./Configure -des -Dprefix=$home/perl
make test
make install

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So as not to mess around with the system perl which Solaris uses for various bits and bobs. Read the documentation for further installation advice.

You may also be interested in CPAN::Mini which you can use on a machine which does have internet access to create and maintain a portable mirror of CPAN for offline usage.

In reply to Re: Build CPAN Module IO:Tty by marto
in thread [SOLVED] Build CPAN Module IO:Tty by psyk0tic

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