SPARC Solaris 10?

[Jeff A. Earickson]

Julian,
    Yup, running on sparc S10, in production.   Using the latest MS
4.53.8, SA 3.1.1, perl 5.8.8.  Perl -V output is attached.  Note
that perl is built using Sun's studio 10 compiler, on a V490.  I
don't use gcc to build perl because various gcc libs end up in
/usr/local, which is an NFS filesystem on most of my boxes.  A
long story there.

Whenever I install a new version of MS, the first thing I do is
look at the perl modules you include, and compare them to what
is already installed.  If something is new or needs an upgrade
then I install the module by hand.  I comment out the install-perl-modules
section of your install.sh script before running it for a new
version.  I tend to run newer releases of perl modules then what 
you ship with MS.   I'm picky about making sure the perl modules
pass their tests.

Gcc 4.x is a lot pickier about include files than 3.x was.  If
I can be of help, let me know.  I have a second S10 box (my V1280)
that I was trying to get reconfigured to run MS again.  It had
hardware problems for a while, now hopefully fixed.

Jeff Earickson
Colby College

On Sat, 6 May 2006, Julian Field wrote:

> Date: Sat, 06 May 2006 20:31:40 +0100
> From: Julian Field <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk>
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> Subject: SPARC Solaris 10?
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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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Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 8 subversion 8) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=solaris, osvers=2.10, archname=sun4-solaris
    uname='sunos coal 5.10 generic_118822-27 sun4u sparc sunw,sun-fire-v490 '
    config_args='-Ui_gdbm -Dprefix=/opt/perl5 -Dcc=cc -Doptimize=-O -Dlocincpth=/opt/openssl/include /opt/BerkeleyDB/include /usr/local/include -Dloclibpth=/opt/openssl/lib /opt/BerkeleyDB/lib /usr/local/lib -Dcf_email=jaearick at colby.edu -Dperladmin=jaearick at colby.edu -Drunnm=false -Dldlibpthname=none -Duseshrplib=true -Dinstallusrbinperl -ders'
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=undef usemultiplicity=undef
    useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef
    use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef
    usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='cc', ccflags ='-I/opt/openssl/include -I/opt/BerkeleyDB/include -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV',
    optimize='-O',
    cppflags='-I/opt/openssl/include -I/opt/BerkeleyDB/include -I/usr/local/include'
    ccversion='Sun C 5.7 Patch 117836-05 2005/10/05', gccversion='', gccosandvers=''
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=4321
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=16
    ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8
    alignbytes=8, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='cc', ldflags =' -L/usr/lib -L/usr/ccs/lib -L/opt/SUNWspro/prod/lib/v8plus -L/opt/SUNWspro/prod/lib -L/lib -L/opt/openssl/lib -L/opt/BerkeleyDB/lib -L/usr/local/lib '
    libpth=/usr/lib /usr/ccs/lib /opt/SUNWspro/prod/lib/v8plus /opt/SUNWspro/prod/lib /lib /opt/openssl/lib /opt/BerkeleyDB/lib /usr/local/lib
    libs=-lsocket -lnsl -lgdbm -ldb -ldl -lm -lc
    perllibs=-lsocket -lnsl -ldl -lm -lc
    libc=, so=so, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.so
    gnulibc_version=''
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='  -R /opt/perl5/lib/5.8.8/sun4-solaris/CORE'
    cccdlflags='-KPIC', lddlflags='-G -L/usr/lib -L/usr/ccs/lib -L/opt/SUNWspro/prod/lib/v8plus -L/opt/SUNWspro/prod/lib -L/lib -L/opt/openssl/lib -L/opt/BerkeleyDB/lib -L/usr/local/lib'


Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): 
  Compile-time options: PERL_MALLOC_WRAP PERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV
                        USE_LARGE_FILES USE_PERLIO
  Built under solaris
  Compiled at Mar  3 2006 11:48:23
  @INC:
    /opt/perl5/lib/5.8.8/sun4-solaris
    /opt/perl5/lib/5.8.8
    /opt/perl5/lib/site_perl/5.8.8/sun4-solaris
    /opt/perl5/lib/site_perl/5.8.8
    /opt/perl5/lib/site_perl/5.8.7/sun4-solaris
    /opt/perl5/lib/site_perl/5.8.7
    /opt/perl5/lib/site_perl
    .