On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 10:49:45AM -0700, Daniel Berger wrote: > Tim, > > I apologize for emailing you directly, but I can't seem to post to dbi-users due to >mail and/or dns issues. Can you please forward?
Done. Thanks. Tim. > I believe the recently released Solaris-PerlGcc-1.1 may be of interest here. > > >From the README: > > The perl 5.005_03 and 5.6.1 shipped with Solaris 8, 9 and 10 were built with > the Forte compilers, and therefore assume that any add-on modules will also be > built with the Forte compiler. The C<perlcc> command will allow gcc to be used > to compile add-on modules for use with the perl versions shipped with Solaris. > > Available on CPAN > > Regards, > > Dan > > Tim Bunce wrote: > > > Be gentle. > > > > ----- Forwarded message from "[EMAIL PROTECTED] via RT" ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- > > > > Date: 13 Nov 2002 15:43:42 -0000 > > To: "AdminCc of perl Ticket #18355": ; > > From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED] via RT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: [perl #18355] Perl DBI > > > > Wed Nov 13 07:43:42 2002: Request 18355 was acted upon. > > Transaction: Ticket created by [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Queue: cpansearch > > Subject: Perl DBI > > Owner: Nobody > > Requestors: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Status: new > > Ticket <URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=18355 > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Dear Sir, I am very dissapointed at the way Perl community presents Perl DBI >installation. Instead of simply give the binary for Solaris and let the engineer >continue with work, no you insist on compiling the perl source code without >considering side effects (no wonder Microsoft is winning the game). Let me tell you >the problem: > > When I try to compile perl DBI, I get a message that (Optional Language Package >not installed). I tried all various forms of Solaris installation and it keeps >failing simply because Sun believes that it should charge poeple for giving a simple >"cc" compiler. So I can not install Perl DBI on Solaris, because I do not have cc be >default installaed on Sun workstations. Is it possible for you to give me the binary >version of Perl DBI and relief me from compiling it? > > > > Regards > > > > ----- End forwarded message ----- >
