I am using Solaris 8 out of the box PERL 5.00503. I have had several
packages from cpan fail to install.
I noted that the Makefile generated by "perl Makefile.PL" had CC=cc and
LD=cc even though the computer does not have a cc compiler; /usr/ucb/cc
returns a message that the optional software is not installed. When I
change cc to gcc I get a problem apparently because the Makefile contains
CCCDLFLAGS = -KPIC. It looks like gcc does not understand the -KPIC
parameter.
At this point I am in way over my head.
Is there a configuration file that I am missing that tells makemaker to use
gcc rather than cc?