in reply to Problem installing GD.pm under Solaris

Are you saying that, on the one hand, you have gd.h in /usr/local/include (as shown by ls /usr/local/include), but on the other hand find / -name gd.h can't find it?? If so, I'd first try to figure out why this is :)

If you hadn't run both commands as root, I would've asked whether maybe /usr/local/include (or one of its parent dirs) is an NFS share, which is configured to not allow root access (as is typically done for security reasons)...   Anyhow, you could try to run the build steps as non-root, and only do the final make install as root.

BTW, the issue with illegal option -nt-search-dirs can probably be ignored: Makefile.PL contains some auto configuration stuff, among which it tries to look for stray include files. For this, it uses the compiler option -print-search-dirs. Unfortuantely, this option is gcc specific - the Solaris system cc doesn't support it, nor anything similar, AFAICT. (It does know the single letter options -p -r -i, though, that's why -pri is being cut off...). OTOH, the default -I/usr/local/include does end up on the command line, so things should work fine, if you have gd.h etc. in that directory, and have permission to read it...

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Re^2: Problem installing GD.pm under Solaris
by neversaint (Deacon) on Apr 18, 2007 at 13:14 UTC
    Thanks for the reply,
    I tried to build and make as SU. Yet still give the same problem 
    root@myhost:/home/sadm/.cpan/build/GD-2.35# perl Makefile.PL
NOTICE: This module requires libgd 2.0.28 or higher.

        If you are using Math::Trig 1.01 or lower, it has a bug that
        causes a "prerequisite not found" warning to be issued.  You m
+ay
        safely ignore this warning.

        Type perl Makefile.PL -h for command-line option summary

Configuring for libgd version 2.0.34.
Checking for stray libgd header files...none found.

Included Features:          GD_XPM GD_JPEG GD_FONTCONFIG GD_FREETYPE G
+D_PNG GD_GIF GD_GIFANIM GD_OPENPOLYGON GD_UNCLOSEDPOLY GD_ANIMGIF GD_
+FTCIRCLE VERSION_33
GD library used from:       /usr/local
Note (probably harmless): No library found for -liconv
Writing Makefile for GD


root@myhost:/home/sadm/.cpan/build/GD-2.35# make
cc -c  -I/usr/local/include  -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=6
+4 -xarch=v8 -D_TS_ERRNO -xO3 -xspace -xildoff    -DVERSION=\"2.35\"  
+-DXS_VERSION=\"2.35\" -KPIC "-I/usr/perl5/5.8.4/lib/sun4-solaris-64in
+t/CORE"  -DHAVE_JPEG -DHAVE_FT -DHAVE_XPM -DHAVE_GIF -DHAVE_PNG -DHAV
+E_ANIMGIF -DVERSION_33 -DHAVE_UNCLOSEDPOLY -DHAVE_FONTCONFIG -DHAVE_F
+TCIRCLE GD.c
/usr/ucb/cc:  language optional software package not installed
*** Error code 1
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `GD.o'

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      I tried to build and make as SU.

      Actually, I meant to not run it as root (except for the install step), because from your initial info it looked like you might not have root access to gd.h and friends...

      Anyhow, now that you're getting

      /usr/ucb/cc:  language optional software package not installed

      it looks as though you might not have a compiler installed, or rather, your setup is somewhat messy, so the right one isn't being found ;)   (/usr/ucb/cc typically is just a wrapper script...).

      Just in case you do have a real compiler under /opt/SUNWspro/bin/cc, you might try adding /opt/SUNWspro/bin/ to your search path (at the beginning, i.e. export PATH=/opt/SUNWspro/bin:$PATH) before you start the build.

      BTW, what is the output of perl -V? Do you have several versions of Perl installed?

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        Just in case you do have a real compiler under /opt/SUNWspro/bin/cc, you might try adding /opt/SUNWspro/bin/ to your search path (at the beginning, i.e. export PATH=/opt/SUNWspro/bin:$PATH) before you start the build.
        As root or normal user? I have this for both cases

        root (before exporting as you suggested): 
        sadm@bioinfo-z:~$ su -
Password:
root@bioinfo-z:~# printenv
SHELL=/bin/bash
TERM=vt100
USER=root
PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/ucb:/bin:/usr/bin:/etc:/usr/sfw/bin:/opt/sfw/
+bin:/opt/SUNWspro/bin:/usr/ccs/bin:/opt/sfw/bin:/opt/SUNWicg/SunScree
+n/bin
PWD=/home/root
SHLVL=1
HOME=/home/root
LOGNAME=root
_=/usr/local/bin/printenv

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        normal user: 
        sadm@bioinfo-z:~$ printenv
LC_MONETARY=en_US.ISO8859-1
TERM=vt100
SHELL=/bin/bash
SSH_CLIENT=172.18.177.29 1681 22
PERL5LIB=/home/sadm/lib/site_perl/sun4-solaris-64int:/home/sadm/lib/si
+te_perl/
LC_NUMERIC=en_US.ISO8859-1
SSH_TTY=/dev/pts/21
USER=sadm
MAIL=/var/mail//sadm
PATH=/home/sadm/.perl/bin:/home/sadm/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/
+sfw/bin:/opt/sfw/bin:/opt/SUNWspro/bin:/usr/ccs/bin
LC_MESSAGES=C
LC_COLLATE=en_US.ISO8859-1
PWD=/home/sadm
EDITOR=vim
TZ=Singapore
SHLVL=1
HOME=/home/sadm
LOGNAME=sadm
SSH_CONNECTION=172.18.177.29 1681 192.168.24.136 22
LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1
_=/usr/local/bin/printenv

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        And also I have: 
        sadm@bioinfo-z:~$ perl -ve
This is perl, v5.8.7 built for sun4-solaris-thread-multi

sadm@bioinfo-z:~$ which perl
/home/sadm/.perl/bin/perl

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        and as root I have: 
        root@bioinfo-z:~# perl -ve
This is perl, v5.8.4 built for sun4-solaris-64int
(with 28 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail)

root@bioinfo-z:~# which perl
/bin/perl

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        and after exporting export PATH=/opt/SUNWspro/bin:$PATH as root. Doing make give me exactly the same error message as my OP.

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