Re^4: Problem installing perl modules

bash-3.1# perl -V
Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 8 subversion 8) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=solaris, osvers=2.6, archname=sun4-solaris-thread-multi
    uname='sunos axe 5.6 generic_105181-39 sun4u sparc sunw,ultra-60 '
    config_args='-ders -Dcc=cc -Dusethreads -Duseithreads -Ud_sigsetjm
+p -Uinstallusrbinperl -Ulocincpth= -Uloclibpth= -Ud_strerror_r -Accfl
+ags=-DUSE_SITECUSTOMIZE -Duselargefiles -Accflags=-DNO_HASH_SEED -Dpr
+efix=/opt/ActivePerl-5.8 -Dprivlib=/opt/ActivePerl-5.8/lib -Darchlib=
+/opt/ActivePerl-5.8/lib -Dsiteprefix=/opt/ActivePerl-5.8/site -Dsitel
+ib=/opt/ActivePerl-5.8/site/lib -Dsitearch=/opt/ActivePerl-5.8/site/l
+ib -Dsed=/usr/bin/sed -Dconfig_heavy=Config_static.pl -Dcf_by=ActiveS
+tate -Dcf_email=support@ActiveState.com'
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    usethreads=define use5005threads=undef useithreads=define usemulti
+plicity=define
    useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef
    use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef
    usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='cc', ccflags ='-D_POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS -D_REENTRANT -DUSE_S
+ITECUSTOMIZE -DNO_HASH_SEED -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=6
+4',
    optimize='-O',
    cppflags='-D_POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS -D_REENTRANT -DUSE_SITECUSTOM
+IZE -DNO_HASH_SEED'
    ccversion='Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 C 5.3 Patch 111679-14 2004/02/2
+0', gccversion='', gccosandvers=''
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=4321
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=1
+6
    ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t',
+ lseeksize=8
    alignbytes=8, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='cc', ldflags =' -L/usr/lib -L/usr/ccs/lib -L/opt/SUNWspro/WS6U
+2/lib '
    libpth=/usr/lib /usr/ccs/lib /opt/SUNWspro/WS6U2/lib /usr/local/li
+b
    libs=-lsocket -lnsl -ldl -lm -lpthread -lc
    perllibs=-lsocket -lnsl -ldl -lm -lpthread -lc
    libc=, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
    gnulibc_version=''
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' '
    cccdlflags='-KPIC', lddlflags='-G -L/usr/lib -L/usr/ccs/lib -L/opt
+/SUNWspro/WS6U2/lib'


Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): 
  Compile-time options: MULTIPLICITY PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT
                        PERL_MALLOC_WRAP USE_ITHREADS USE_LARGE_FILES
                        USE_PERLIO USE_REENTRANT_API USE_SITECUSTOMIZE
  Locally applied patches:
        ActivePerl Build 820 [274679]
        Iin_load_module moved for compatibility with build 806
        PerlEx support in CGI::Carp
        Less verbose ExtUtils::Install and Pod::Find
        Patch for CAN-2005-0448 from Debian with modifications
        Rearrange @INC so that 'site' is searched before 'perl'
        Partly reverted 24733 to preserve binary compatibility
        28376 Add error checks after execing PL_cshname or PL_sh_path
        28305 Pod::Html should not convert "foo" into ``foo''
        27833 Change anchor generation in Pod::Html for '=item item 2'
        27832,27847 fix Pod::Html::depod() for multi-line strings
        27736 Make perl_fini() run with Sun WorkShop compiler
        27719 Document the functions htmlify() and anchorify() in Pod:
+:Html
        27619 Bug in Term::ReadKey being triggered by a bug in Term::R
+eadLine
        27549 Move DynaLoader.o into libperl.so
        27515 ignore directories when searching @INC
        27359 Fix -d:Foo=bar syntax
        27210 Fix quote typo in c2ph
        27203 Allow compiling swigged C++ code
        27133 Initialise lastparen in the regexp structure
        27061 L<PerlIO> and Pod::Html
        27034 Avoid "Prototype mismatch" warnings with autouse
        26970 Make Passive mode the default for Net::FTP
        26921 Avoid getprotobyname/number calls in IO::Socket::INET
        26897,26903 Make common IPPROTO_* constants always available
        26670 Make '-s' on the shebang line parse -foo=bar switches
        26536 INSTALLSCRIPT versus INSTALLDIRS
        26087 Storable 0.1 compatibility
        25861 IO::File performace issue
        25084 long groups entry could cause memory exhaustion
        24699 ICMP_UNREACHABLE handling in Net::Ping
  Built under solaris
  Compiled at Jan 23 2007 12:00:36
  @INC:
    /opt/ActivePerl-5.8/site/lib
    /opt/ActivePerl-5.8/lib
    .
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Both systems generated the exact same output (I did a diff on it n_n).

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Re^5: Problem installing perl modules by almut (Canon) on Sep 12, 2007 at 21:35 UTC
Ok, this confirms my suspicion, i.e. the ActivePerl binary has been built with the Sun WorkShop 6 C compiler. In that case, I don't think there's an easy way to get things to work with gcc. In other words, I'm afraid you'll have to try one of the other options I mentioned. If you have a Sun C compiler (probably doesn't have to be this very version), I'd go with that. Otherwise, I'd try to find pre-built PPM packages (I'm not using PPM myself, so I can't help out with links to good repositories...), or as a last resort, build your own Perl from the sources using gcc. In the latter case, when everything is consistently making use of the same compiler framework, you shouldn't have any problems building extension modules. Good luck.	[reply]
Re^6: Problem installing perl modules by kraas (Novice) on Sep 13, 2007 at 12:51 UTC
I removed ActivePerl and reinstalled it. The file denoted by 'which cc' is a symlink pointing to the gcc executable; shouldn't that mean perl would use gcc to compile, if it was trying to use cc? Typing 'cc -v' and 'gcc -v' gives the same output. I installed Crypt::CBC with no problem. However when I tried to install Crypt::Blowfish it got the same type of error mentioned above again. According to this Blowfish shouldn't have any prereqs besides Crypt::CBC. What could I be missing? The version of CBC I added was 2.22 and the version of Blowfish was 2.10.	[reply]
Re^7: Problem installing perl modules by almut (Canon) on Sep 13, 2007 at 13:56 UTC
I removed ActivePerl and reinstalled it. It's not a matter of a broken Perl installation, so reinstalling won't help here. The problem is that you're using a compiler which that particular ActivePerl build doesn't play nicely with. The file denoted by 'which cc' is a symlink pointing to the gcc executable; shouldn't that mean perl would use gcc to compile, if it was trying to use cc? Yes, it does call `gcc`, but that's exactly the problem, because `gcc` and Sun's `cc` are sufficiently incompatible for things to work... I installed Crypt::CBC with no problem. The reason this did work is that Crypt::CBC is a pure Perl module. In other words, you don't need a compiler to install it. According to this Blowfish shouldn't have any prereqs besides Crypt::CBC. Presumably that's right. However, Crypt::Blowfish itself comprises architecture specific C/XS code, which means you need a working compiler installation to be able to build/install it. I'm sorry, but unless someone comes up with a novel suggestion, I'm afraid there's not much else you can try, in addition to what I already did mention...	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^8: Problem installing perl modules by kraas (Novice) on Sep 13, 2007 at 17:59 UTC
Re^9: Problem installing perl modules by almut (Canon) on Sep 13, 2007 at 19:40 UTC