SPARC Solaris 10?

[Julian Field]

Mike Tremaine wrote:
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>> From: Julian Field <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk>
>> 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.
>> :-(
>>     
>
> 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.
>   

I have just ripped apart my install.tar-fns.sh script and it's started 
to work!
Yay, and thanks to whoever it was who pointed me towards SUNWspro. I 
didn't realise it was free these days :-)

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