On Mar 28, 2007, at 11:08 AM, Rob Shepherd wrote: > Tony Schreiner wrote: >> I am wanting to run BackupPC 3.0 on a Solaris 10 system >> ( warnings from last week notwithstanding ). >> I am stuck at installing Compress::Zlib (doing it with perl -MCPAN >> -e shell). Getting many errors during the compile. Have other >> Solaris folks had trouble here? > > You may have found that if you havn't got the Sun Studio compiler > (I.E. the one that the system perl was built with), then new > modules won't be able to compile the C code components. > > I steer clear of touching the system /usr/bin/perl and have > compiled my own into /usr/local using gcc from blastwave. > > I then pass whatever options I need to BackupPC's configure script > to get it to place /usr/local/perl/bin/perl into the script #! > > perl is trivial to build (bear in mind one test will fail if you're > in Solaris zone) > > Or I have mine tarred up at just over 9MB. If you want a copy? > > (solaris 10 opteron) > > Regards > > Rob > > -- > Rob Shepherd BEng PhD | Computer and Network Engineer | CAST Ltd > Technium CAST | LL57 4HJ | http://www.techniumcast.com > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 01248 675024 | 077988 72480
I do have Sun Studio, and also gcc. But you're probably right that I should build a separate perl. Thanks for the suggestion and offer, but I'm on a SPARC system. Tony ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
