Compiling IO:Tty

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi, Don't know if this is appropriate to this list, if not my apologies. I'm trying to install IO::Tty on a solaris 8 box but the make is failing as follows:

# make
mkdir blib
mkdir blib/lib
mkdir blib/lib/IO
mkdir blib/arch
mkdir blib/arch/auto
mkdir blib/arch/auto/IO
mkdir blib/arch/auto/IO/Tty
mkdir blib/lib/auto
mkdir blib/lib/auto/IO
mkdir blib/lib/auto/IO/Tty
mkdir blib/man3
cp Pty.pm blib/lib/IO/Pty.pm
cp Tty.pm blib/lib/IO/Tty.pm
cp Tty/Constant.pm blib/lib/IO/Tty/Constant.pm
/usr/bin/perl -I/usr/perl5/5.00503/sun4-solaris -I/usr/perl5/5.00503 /
+usr/perl5/5.00503/ExtUtils/xsubpp  -typemap /usr/perl5/5.00503/ExtUti
+ls/typemap Tty.xs >xstmp.c && mv xstmp.c Tty.c
cc -c   -xO3 -xdepend    -DVERSION=\"1.02\" -DXS_VERSION=\"1.02\" -KPI
+C -I/usr/perl5/5.00503/sun4-solaris/CORE -DHAVE_DEV_PTMX -DHAVE_GRANT
+PT -DHAVE_PTSNAME -DHAVE_SIGACTION -DHAVE_STRLCPY -DHAVE_SYS_STROPTS_
+H -DHAVE_TERMIOS_H -DHAVE_TERMIO_H -DHAVE_TTYNAME -DHAVE_UNLOCKPT Tty
+.c
cc: unrecognized option `-KPIC'
cc: language depend not recognized
cc: Tty.c: linker input file unused because linking not done
Running Mkbootstrap for IO::Tty ()
chmod 644 Tty.bs
LD_RUN_PATH="" cc -o blib/arch/auto/IO/Tty/Tty.so  -G Tty.o     
cc: Tty.o: No such file or directory
cc: No input files
make: *** [blib/arch/auto/IO/Tty/Tty.so] Error 1
#
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using perl -V I've ascertained that the installed default perl was compiled using the Solaris C/C++ compiler unsurprisingly. This seems to be the cause of the problem as we don't have that installed but use GCC instead. Anybody any ideas, I'm constrained to use what's already on the box, strangely IO::Stty has installed fine. TIA

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Re: Compiling IO:Tty - arrggh! by steves (Curate) on Feb 12, 2003 at 16:08 UTC
I have never been able to mix cc and gcc binaries on Solaris. In fact, even upgrading gcc usually forces me to have to rebuild all Perl modules that have binary components. IO::Stty has no binary (C compiled) pieces, which is why it works.	[reply]
Re: Re: Compiling IO:Tty - arrggh! by Anonymous Monk on Feb 12, 2003 at 17:14 UTC
Thanks for the info - guess I'll have to think of a different solution.	[reply]
Re: Compiling IO:Tty - arrggh! by jacques (Priest) on Feb 12, 2003 at 17:44 UTC
This seems to be the cause of the problem as we don't have that installed but use GCC instead. If you are using gcc, then why does the make output show that you are using cc?	[reply]