That was the problem (according to the tech support I finally asked)...i.e. Sun Workshop was not installed, hence the error with cc.
In the end, it seems some other installation of Perl on the same machine had DBI packaged with it, and I just switched to using that version. Thanks for all the help...we were asymptotically zeroing in on the problem...A. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Antonio Garcia-Martinez cryptologia.com On Thu, 5 Jun 2003, Alan Burlison wrote: > Antonio Garcia wrote: > > > After doing the makefile and doing 'make', I get the following error > > message: > > > > /usr/bin/perl -p -e "s/~DRIVER~/Perl/g" < blib/arch/auto/DBI/Driver.xst > > > Perl.xsi > > /usr/bin/perl -I/usr/perl5/5.6.1/lib/sun4-solaris-64int > > -I/usr/perl5/5.6.1/lib /usr/perl5/5.6.1/lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp -typemap > > /usr/perl5/5.6.1/lib/ExtUtils/typemap -typemap typemap Perl.xs > Perl.xsc > > && mv Perl.xsc Perl.c > > cc -c -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -xO3 -xdepend > > -DVERSION=\"1.37\" -DXS_VERSION=\"1.37\" -KPIC > > -I/usr/perl5/5.6.1/lib/sun4-solaris-64int/CORE -DDBI_NO_THREADS Perl.c > > /usr/ucb/cc: language optional software package not installed > > make: *** [Perl.o] Error 1 > > So this is Solaris 9 and you are using the Sun-supplied perl, right? > > /usr/ucb/cc is a backwards-compatibility wrapper around the C Workshop/Forte > compilers - have you go them installed? Where is your C compiler installed, > and is it in your PATH? > > -- > Alan Burlison > -- >
