Yup, looks quite a bit outdated:-) Has anyone been collecting faqs, or it needs lots of work on it?
Ilya -----Original Message----- From: Tim Bunce To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Chris Pepper; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 3/11/02 2:04 PM Subject: DBI FAQ maintainer sought! So, anyone want to volunteer?! Tim. On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 11:38:13AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I work for Sun Microsystems and can tell you that this is a known issue > for two reasons: > > 1. As you stated the cc command is a stub in Solaris until you pay for > and install the appropriate package. > > 2. Perl is packaged and delivered with Solaris 8. Obviously unless you > have cc installed then you will have to re-compile Perl as you won't > have the same compiler as Sun had when compiling it for Solaris, which I > believe is a requirement of DBI. > > I agree this is a good FAQ! > > Mike Key > > > Chris Pepper wrote: > > > > Gents, > > > > We're having some trouble building DBI under Solaris 8, and I > > think our problem is a good FAQ candidate. > > > > When following your build procedure, we're getting hung up > > because it wants to use cc (which is present but disabled on our > > Solaris 8 system, because we haven't paid for the license). We have a > > working gcc installation, but I think we're going to have to rebuild > > perl from source with gcc, so DBI can be built using gcc. > > > > If this is a known problem, please add it to the FAQ. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Chris Pepper > > -- > > Chris Pepper: <http://www.reppep.com/~pepper/> > > Rockefeller University: <http://www.rockefeller.edu/>
