SPARC Solaris 10?

[John Rudd]

In fall, I was trying to use the new x4100 boxes they have (which is 
Intel not Sparc, but it was still Solaris 10).  I couldn't get ANY perl 
modules to install via CPAN.  I wound up (after running dangerously 
close to my deliverable date) trading those machines with one of my 
peers, and took his 410's, and installing Solaris 8 on them instead.

Once I get some spare time, I hope to sit down and just beat on Solaris 
10 for a while (intel and sparc) ... but if it continues to be that 
degree of annoyance, I may decide it's more annoying than Linux (a 
_huge_ statement for me) and abandon Solaris 10 for some Linux distro.


On May 6, 2006, at 12:31 PM, Julian Field wrote:

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> Anyone running on SPARC on Solaris 10?
> I'm having nightmare installation problems with MIME::Base64,
> HTML::Parser and Filesys::Df, and pretty much any module including C 
> code.
> Any hints?
> I have already found the --arch=v8 switch and added it to the 
> installer.
> This will be in the next release.
>
> Getting parse errors in standard header files, using GCC.
> :-(
>
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