Venerable Monks,

I am compiling Perl 5.10.0 and Perl 5.12.2 on Solaris 8 (and later on Solaris 10). To support this, I have downloaded several packages required by GNU C++ (gcc) from www.sunfreeware.com, including gzipped copies of glib1 and glib2. For Solaris 8, for example, these are: 

glib-1.2.10-sol8-sparc-local.gz
glib-2.25.13-sol8-sparc-local.gz

[download]

My puzzle is whether to install glib-1.2.10, which I have used successfully before) or glib-2.25.13 (which has a bigger list of dependent packages).

If I keep with glib1 instead of glib2, what functionality will I miss out out in Perl 5.10.0 or Perl 5.12.2? What extra complexity or problems will I encounter if I build with glib2 instead?

Thank-you in advance for your words of wisdom.

In reply to Build Perl with glib1 or glib2 by Cuhulain

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