[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
I am trying to compile ntp-4.2.2 on a Solaris 8 sparc server and
keep getting the following error in configure:
checking for perl... /usr/local/bin/perl
configure: error: How do we create an unsigned long constant?
I tried seraching for this error in this group and also throught
Google.com but could find nothing relevent. If anyone has seen thsi
before or has an idea of what might be causing this I would be greatly
appreciative. Thanks.
-Chris Noyes
Methinks that's a bug in the configure script! /usr/local/bin is part
of the BSD family of Unix variants. System V Release 4 conformant Unix
variants frown on putting anything in /usr that is not part of/does not
belong to, the O/S. In principle, /usr could be replaced in its
entirety by a Solaris upgrade. The "proper" place in Solaris would be
/opt/local if Perl were not shipped with Solaris. Sun DOES ship a
version of Perl with Solaris; it can be found in /usr/bin/perl. A
sysadmin who wanted to install a more recent version of perl would
install it in /opt/local.
The quick fix is to test for Solaris and look for perl in /usr/bin/perl.
Sorting out which systems are BSD derived and which are SVR4 derived is
going to be quite a bit more complicated.
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