For reasons beyond my control, I need to use Perl version 5.8.2 DBI-1.39 DBD-Oracle-1.14 TermReadKey-2.21
together on a machine lacking a compiler. I have compiled everything successfully on a different, pretty-much-identical machine and got Perl moved over successfully. However, when I try to install Perl::DBI I run into trouble. When I do a make install, it returns /usr/ucb/cc: language optional software package not installed which is Sun's uninformative way of informing you that you don't have a proper compiler installed. I cannot install the compiler on this system because we don't have a license for it and we cannot use gcc as it conflicts with other software. There's no reason for it to compile as everything is already built. I think it's a timestamp issue. I looked through Makefile and Makefile.PL and couldn't find any obvious way of doing it. The guys on #perl suggested making a package, but I'm not sure how to do that. This communication is intended for the use of the recipient to which it is addressed, and may contain confidential, personal and or privileged information. Please contact us immediately if you are not the intended recipient of this communication, and do not copy, distribute, or take action relying on it. Any communication received in error, or subsequent reply, should be deleted or destroyed.
