On Dec 5, 2003, at 10:19 AM, Phil Schaechter wrote: [..]
I'm trying to determine which version of perl ships by default with Solaris 8. I've been told two things: perl 5.005 and "no perl is installed by default" - both of which I find hard to believe.
The official answer is 'yes'.
It is possible to do a build of a solaris8 box and NOT take the perl release. It is possible to build the box and take the perl release.
It is even possible to download the appropriate patch from sun and get the perl 5.6.1 - so it all sorta depends upon whom you were kvetching with about which of the TrueTruths is tru-er.
So if
vladimir: 56:] /usr/perl5/bin/perl -v
This is perl, v5.6.1 built for sun4-solaris-64int
(with 48 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail)
....then it is a build of perl that came from Sun.
BUT then again
vladimir: 57:] which perl
/usr/local/bin/perl
vladimir: 58:] whereis perl
perl: /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/perl
vladimir: 59:] ls -li /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/perl
17345 -rwxr-xr-x 3 root other 14684 Aug 30 2002 /usr/bin/perl
17345 -rwxr-xr-x 3 root other 14684 Aug 30 2002 /usr/local/bin/perl
vladimir: 60:]
would indicate that the Freak out there has opted to install an alternative build of Perl on their Solaris machine for ideological deviationalism...
So yes, it is true that in Solaris7 there was NO perl by default, but with Solaris8 it became an option...
HTH.
ciao drieux
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