SPARC Solaris 10?

[randyf at sibernet.com]

On Sat, 6 May 2006, John Rudd wrote:

>
> 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.

   I had no problem installing perl modules on S10 on x86 _or_ sparc, once 
I got around the predominant issue with many perl modules assuming tools 
and perl are in /usr/local

   The best way to deal with Perl modules on Solaris is to add 'OPTIMIZE= ' 
'CCFLAGS= ' 'CCCDLFLAGS= ' as arguments to Makefile.PL:

    perl Makefile.PL 'OPTIMIZE= ' 'CCFLAGS= ' 'CCCDLFLAGS= '

And this has worked 99% of the time independent of me using gcc from the 
Solaris install, or if I have installed it seperately (I have even done 
this with the Sun compiler with no problems).

   I have also found that adding Perl modules to Solaris is mostly simple 
if if Webmin's "Install Perl Module" is used (note, BTW, that I have had 
better success in adding the MailScanner modules via Webmin than with the 
Mailscanner installer).

>
> 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.

   My biggest annoyance predominantly is when any "open source" tool 
assumes underlying mechanisms, and the only reason (IMHO) it would be any 
easier, is that those underlying assumptions are more likely to be Linux 
swayed, then Solaris swayed (though I am just as annoyed when they are 
swayed to a particular platform).

   Sorry for the rant, I hope the previous stuff was of help.  However, if 
you want to beat on it, and would like any of my "expertise" in this 
subject (I have done a "few" Solaris installs), feel free to contact me 
separately.

rf

P.S.	I didn't see the following message, are there odd filterings going
 	on?  I can't speak for Filesys::Df, but the other two installed
 	for me fine with the the other two using the Makefile.PL options
 	I mentioned above.

>
>
> 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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