in reply to Attempts at building Perl 5.8.7 on Solaris 10 failing

Unless there's a specific reason that you have to compile from source, you can just install the pre-compiled package instead. D/L 'pkg-get' from here. The current version of Perl you can get is "perl 5.8.7,REV=2005.11.08".

Admittedly, compiling your own will give you much more control over the finished product so if you're trying to squeeze that last bit of performance out of Perl this probably isn't a route you want to take. But it is a whole lot easier.

Hope this helps,

Jack

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Re^2: Attempts at building Perl 5.8.7 on Solaris 10 failing
by blue_cowdawg (Monsignor) on Feb 01, 2006 at 20:57 UTC
        Unless there's a specific reason that you have to compile from source, you can just install the pre-compiled package instead

    I went that route first. Problem is when we attempted to load things from CPAN afterwards all hell broke loose and anything that required compilation got wiggy and failed to compile.

    I'm beginning to not like Solaris 10 much.

    Peter L. Berghold -- Unix Professional
    Peter -at- Berghold -dot- Net; AOL IM redcowdawg Yahoo IM: blue_cowdawg
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