How about a FAQ-O-Matic type of setup? I can, probably, provide some hardware for it...(depending upon the needs)
Jeff > -----Original Message----- > From: Tim Bunce [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 4:05 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: Chris Pepper; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 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/> >
