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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.

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Re^3: miniperl hangs during perl compilation
by Moron (Curate) on Nov 17, 2005 at 15:31 UTC
    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

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      Thanks for that information. Since my colleague had compiled 5.8.1 with gcc 3.2 on solaris 2.6 without any problem. I have just started the same combo on solaris 2.9. If that does not work, i will try 5.6.1.

      Was looking at my config log and found this. Would this be causing an issue? 

      <dld.h> NOT found.

dlopen() found.

Do you wish to use dynamic loading? [y]

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      And i answered yes for dynamic loading. And i don't have dld.h on my machine. But since it said it found dlopen(), i did not bother. It would just use dl_dlopen.xs, rit?

      Can someone throw some light on this, if this is an issue i should look into? But again, i just want to remind that, the miniperl hang did not happen for all the libraries.
      Thanks

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        My 5.8.1 build also stops at the same place. I guess i am missing some kinda dependency for some libraries? I had given a list of the libraries that are not compiling fine. Any thoughts on something that i'd be missing or doing wrong?
        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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        The perl library dependencies for Solaris will differ from the gnu library dependencies for even the same version of Perl. But that reminds me of the fact that these dependencies take form during the make and you didn't say whether you are using dmake or gnu make for your Solaris build of perl. See this link for some possible causes given each of the two possibilities CPAN: Sun_and_GNU_Make

        -M

        Free your mind

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