My RH Linux 6.2 build went so easily I was lulled into thinking this was no big deal. 
I had installed all the rpm's rather than customizing and I was the admin.  I think 
I've read all the most recent posts on this topic and see that it really can be a 
difficult process.  My most recent experience bears this out.

I'm at a client site and have to work within their structure.  Mozzila is built on 2 
machines (Solaris 5) but the person who built is gone and documentation incomplete. 
Now we want to load onto 7 more machines running Solaris 6.

I downloaded the C SDK from iPlanet and PerLDAP-1.4 from CPAN.  The SA already 
upgraded Perl to 5.004.  I got through the first part which said "Looks good."  I 
think most posts I see stumble on the make, at least I did.  The SA's don't want to 
put a compiler on each of the 7 production machines.

QUESTIONS: While they "installed" gcc on a development box, I have no idea if it was 
installed correctly as I'm getting errors unable to read headers.  While they struggle 
with the compiler install, I have 2 questions:
1. I have functioning Mozilla/LDAP/CONN.pm, ENTRY.pm etc. modules.  I tar'd them up 
and moved them into an identical structure on another machine.  I set ownership, 
permissions identical.  I verified that that @INC had this structure in its path.  I 
tried to run a Perl script and first failure was API.pm not found in the @INC.  @INC 
is .....  Is there some way to take these constructed .pm's and move them onto a new 
machine without a compiler?  Do I still need some C libraries?

2. I hate to second guess the SA's but what is the source for the GNU C++ compilers, 
www.gnu.org?  Is it a big deal to install?  I'm afraid of the install resetting links, 
permissions, etc. and then I'm in big trouble.

Thanks in advance.
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