SPARC Solaris 10?

[Mike Tremaine]

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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.
> :-(

Did you remember about perlgcc?

[mgt at hypernova ~]$ which perlgcc
/usr/perl5/bin/perlgcc
[mgt at hypernova ~]$ uname -a
SunOS hypernova 5.10 Generic_118833-03 sun4u sparc SUNW,UltraAX-i2

Without it all perl modules will look for the Sun Compiler.

-Mike