The latest version of Perl that is compatible with your platform seems to be 5.8.5. And a more appropriate distro with instructions can be found at http://www.sunfreeware.com

I initially tried compiling 5.8.5 from sunfreeware.com. I faced the same problem.So i decided may be i should try the latest stable one from perl.org. Now i have the same problem on both.

I need to compile perl and a few other utilities for my need on a separate mount point.Ultimately I have to move the tar ball of the mount pt to another machine (same config -arch,OS,etc)cause i don't have enough space on it.

I looked at what's actually installed on our (large number of) SunOS 5.9 systems and only Perl 5.6.1 is on them - I think, also based on past experience, that current version numbers under Solaris tend to be somewhat behind Windows and Linux.

-M

Free your mind

I am running the latest Perl on Solaris 8, 9, and 10. Solaris, btw, is NOT a BSD variant anymore. It has been a System V variant for many, many years now.

That said, vani, you have to get us alot more detail. Can you run a truss and see what's going on? I've never had a Perl built fail on me ever and I've been using Perl on Solaris for almost a decade. Maybe an experienced Sysadmin who has access to your system can help you out.

I am using GNU's Make. I ran truss on "make" at the parent directory level. Am just adding the last section

    Making B (dynamic)
Inside B::Makefile.PL
before WriteMakefile call
wait()                          (sleeping...)
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I ran truss from within the B directory and here's the output. It's pretty big, so am adding some sections that i think are relevant. Please let me know if you need other sections and i will provide them. It looks like it is trying to find Util.pm file Then i find it is doing lstat calls on pretty much the entire filesystem. And some of the directories are NFS mounted, and goes to sleep on one such directory.

   3890  open64("/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7/sun4-solaris/Scalar/
+Util.pm", O
_RDONLY) Err#2 ENOENT
  3891  stat64("/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7/Scalar/Util.pmc", 0xF
+FBFF8D0) E
rr#2 ENOENT
  3892  open64("/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7/Scalar/Util.pm", O_RD
+ONLY) Err#
2 ENOENT
  3893  stat64("/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/Scalar/Util.pmc", 0xFFBFF8D
+0) Err#2 E
NOENT
  3894  open64("/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/Scalar/Util.pm", O_RDONLY) 
+Err#2 ENOE
NT
  3895  stat64("./Scalar/Util.pmc", 0xFFBFF8D0)         Err#2 ENOENT
  3896  open64("./Scalar/Util.pm", O_RDONLY)            Err#2 ENOENT
  3897  getcontext(0xFFBFF758)
  3898  setcontext(0xFFBFF758)
  3899  stat64(".", 0x0011AE90)                         = 0
  3900  open("./..", O_RDONLY|O_NDELAY|O_LARGEFILE)     = 3
  3901  fstat64(3, 0xFFBFF9A0)                          = 0
  3902  fcntl(3, F_SETFD, 0x00000001)                   = 0
  3903  stat64("./..", 0x0011AE90)                      = 0
  3904  getdents64(3, 0x003BE488, 8192)                 = 1072
  3963  lstat64("./../../epoc", 0x0011AE90)             = 0
  3964  lstat64("./../../ext", 0x0011AE90)              = 0
  3965  close(3)                                        = 0
  3966  open("./../../..", O_RDONLY|O_NDELAY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3
  3967  fstat64(3, 0xFFBFF9A0)                          = 0
  3968  fcntl(3, F_SETFD, 0x00000001)                   = 0
  3969  stat64("./../../..", 0x0011AE90)                = 0
  3970  getdents64(3, 0x003BE488, 8192)                 = 1432
  3971  lstat64("./../../../.", 0x0011AE90)      
...
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I was under the impression that /local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7/sun4-solaris/ was the path where perl would install these *.pm files for the actual perl that i build. Am i making myself clear?! Could someone explain what's happening here?!!

I am not sure what information you need , but here's some that i thought you would need. @INC for miniperl

./miniperl "-I./lib" -e 'print "@INC\n"'
./lib /local/lib/perl5/5.8.7/sun4-solaris /local/lib/perl5/5.8.7 /loca
+l/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7/sun4-solaris /local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5
+.8.7 /local/lib/perl5/site_perl .
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Here's where i have Util.pm

/local/src/perl-5.8.7/ext/List/Util/lib/List/Util.pm
/local/src/perl-5.8.7/ext/List/Util/lib/Scalar/Util.pm
/local/src/perl-5.8.7/lib/CGI/Util.pm
/local/src/perl-5.8.7/lib/Hash/Util.pm
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Can someone help me? Do you need more info to help me out?
Thanks

Vani

• Which hardware platform do you use?
• Could the available amount of memory (RAM) become an issue?
• When the compile hangs, how does that manifest?
• Are there any error messages or warnings in the compile logs? Please show them if so.
• Does only the compile hang?

Here's some more info

Which hardware platform do you use?
# uname -a
SunOS losan048 5.9 Generic_112233-07 sun4us sparc FJSV,GPUS
Could the available amount of memory (RAM) become an issue?


I don't know how to find out if memory is an issue (atleast for the libraries where i cam not able to create the Makefile even when i give the miniperl command from within that directory). But i was certainly able to create the make file and compile some of the libraries from within their directories.
If someone could tell me how to find this out, i can try it.


When the compile hangs, how does that manifest? Are there any error messages or warnings in the compile logs? Please show them if so. Does only the compile hang?
No error message what-so-ever. It just stays there...here's a snippet


 make[1]: Leaving directory 

`/local/src/perl-5.8.7/x2p'<br>

        Making B (dynamic)
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But as i said earlier, If i remove the entries from the list of libraries in the dynamic_ext variable in the Makefile. Make completes.
But again "make test" and "make install" fails with a lot of errors. Am just adding the last section of the make install cmd output.

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The list of libraries that cause an issue in creating the Makefile with miniperl,
(i say pass/fail next to each,
pass - i can create the make file and do a make from within that directory
fail - just hangs no matter from where i try to run the miniperl command)


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Please let me know if you need some more information.
BTW, it's not NFS. It's local.



Any suggestion? Thanks,
Vani

If you decide to ignore this advice and use the GNU versions anyway, then be sure that they are relatively recent. Versions newer than 2.7 are apparently new enough. Older versions may have trouble with dynamic loading.

My colleague at work had compiled perl 5.8.1 with gcc 3.2 and gnu tools. So, i did ask him for suggestions too. But, he never faced any problem like this. So I need some help here.