I should have added in my previous mail: I have sometimes encountered problems building freeware on Solaris -- not often but once with gcc that I can recall. There's a big Solaris freeware site that offers pre-compiled freeware in pkgadd form. You need to have root access to pkgadd of course ... At any rate, this site may be useful if you've never used it.
I also see they have Perl 5.8.0 out there. http://www.sunfreeware.com/ Now, ask Microsoft where their freeware site is. 8-) ---- Steve Sapovits GSI Commerce [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -----Original Message----- > From: Tim Bunce [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 2:13 PM > To: Daniel Berger > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: (Fwd) [Fwd] [perl #18355] Perl DBI > > 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 ----- > >
