There is no good technical reason not to compile one's own Perl under Solaris 10. Sun now includes GCC 3.4.3, GNU assembler 2.15, GNU Make 3.80, etc. In the past, I had to deal with fighting with SUN's assembler, maybe even compiling GCC, GAS, etc. Compiling Perl 5.10.1 was tame and virtually painless in comparison. So, your own Perl is the way to go under Solaris 10!!

For anyone curious, below (in the readmore tags) is the TCSH script I used to set up my environment and a copy of the myconfig file. 

> cat sourceme
setenv PATH /usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sfw/bin:/usr/sfw/libexec:/us
+r/ccs/bin:.
setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH /usr/lib:/usr/sfw/lib:/usr/local/ssl/lib
setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH_64 /usr/lib/sparcv9:/usr/sfw/lib/sparcv9
setenv MANPATH /usr/share/man:/usr/sfw/man
unalias *

> cat myconfig
#!/bin/sh

# This script is designed to provide a handy summary of the configurat
+ion
# information being used to build perl. This is especially useful if y
+ou
# are requesting help from comp.lang.perl.misc on usenet or via mail.

# Note that the text lines /^Summary of/ .. /^\s*$/ are copied into Co
+nfig.pm.
cat <<'!NO!SUBS!'
Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 10 subversion 1) configuration
+:

  Platform:
    osname=solaris, osvers=2.10, archname=sun4-solaris-thread-multi
    uname='sunos searay 5.10 generic_137111-06 sun4u sparc sunw,sun-fi
+re-880 '
    config_args=''
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    useithreads=define, usemultiplicity=define
    useperlio=define, d_sfio=undef, uselargefiles=define, usesocks=und
+ef
    use64bitint=undef, use64bitall=undef, uselongdouble=undef
    usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='gcc', ccflags ='-D_REENTRANT -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr
+/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -DPERL_USE_
+SAFE_PUTENV',
    optimize='-O',
    cppflags='-D_REENTRANT -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/inc
+lude'
    ccversion='', gccversion='3.4.3 (csl-sol210-3_4-branch+sol_rpath)'
+, gccosandvers='solaris2.10'
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=4321
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=1
+6
    ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t',
+ lseeksize=8
    alignbytes=8, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='gcc', ldflags ='-L/usr/lib/sparcv9 -L/usr/sfw/lib/sparcv9 -L/u
+sr/lib -L/usr/sfw/lib -L/usr/local/ssl/lib '
    libpth=/usr/lib/sparcv9 /usr/sfw/lib/sparcv9 /usr/lib /usr/sfw/lib
+ /usr/local/ssl/lib
    libs=-lsocket -lnsl -lgdbm -ldl -lm -lpthread -lc
    perllibs=-lsocket -lnsl -ldl -lm -lpthread -lc
    libc=/lib/libc.so, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
    gnulibc_version=''
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' '
    cccdlflags='-fPIC', lddlflags='-G -L/usr/lib/sparcv9 -L/usr/sfw/li
+b/sparcv9 -L/usr/lib -L/usr/sfw/lib -L/usr/local/ssl/lib'

!NO!SUBS!

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In reply to Re^2: perl 5.8.4 package for solaris 10 by Argel
in thread perl 5.8.4 package for solaris 10 by krishnapriya

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