I've spent quite a bit of time trying to get perlbrew working on Solaris and now I'm stuck. The basic position I'm in now is: 

$ perlbrew list
* perl-5.16.1
$ perlbrew switch perl-5.16.1
$ which perl
/export/home/sources/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.16.1/bin/perl
$ echo $PERLBREW_ROOT
/export/home/sources/perl5/perlbrew
# NOTE the relative paths below
# These differ from a linux box using perlbrew where
# the paths are absolute.
$ perl -MCPAN -le 'print'
Can't locate CPAN.pm in @INC (@INC contains: ../lib/site_perl/5.16.1/s
+un4-solaris ../lib/site_perl/5.16.1 ../lib/5.16.1/sun4-solaris ../lib
+/5.16.1 .).
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted.
$ cd ~/perl5
$ find . -name CPAN.pm
./perlbrew/perls/perl-5.16.1/lib/5.16.1/CPAN.pm
./perlbrew/build/perl-5.16.1/cpan/CPAN/lib/CPAN.pm
./perlbrew/build/perl-5.16.1/lib/CPAN.pm

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Some background.

I have sourced ~/perl5/perlbrew/etc/bashrc and I am running bash shell.

I just ran perlbrew install perl-5.16.1 to install 5.16.1 and it completed ok.

The box is used for other things so I did not want to change anything outside this account. As perlbrew uses HTTPS I needed a openssl installed for wget or curl. wget was a pain as the C source contains variable declarations in functions after code and after I'd fixed a number of these I got fed up and tried curl. Once I had a working curl perlbrew seems to need gtar which is gnu tar so I built that too. There were other issues with 3 argument open in perlbrew as the system Perl was 5.005_03 and perlbrew does a self-upgrade at the start.

In reply to Trouble getting perlbrew working on Solaris machine by mje

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