Re: Problem installing perl modules

[almut]

My guess would be that your ActivePerl hasn't been built with gcc, but rather with the system cc.  Perl extension modules must generally be built with the same compiler / compiler options as the Perl binary itself, which is why Perl "remembers" those settings (do a "perl -V" to check yourself). That's most likely where the system cc specific -KPIC option originates from. The respective gcc option would in theory be -fPIC, however, simply substituting one for the other is probably not going to get you very far, as this is not the only difference between the two compilers...

In short, I think your options are

• get hold of Sun's system compiler, and try again with that (but do a "perl -V" to verify my theory, before investing too much effort...)
• build Perl yourself from scratch, using gcc
• install binary packages pre-built for ActivePerl 5.8.8 (if available)

[kraas]

I did a 'perl -V' on the system I am trying to install on, and another system where I previously installed the same modules without incident, and they were the same.

So if I have to remove my existing ActivePerl installation and start over, how do I make sure it uses gcc?

Thanks everyone for your help so far.

[almut]

I did a 'perl -V' ...

What does it say? (I don't have an ActivePerl for Solaris installed here, so I can't check myself.)

[kraas]

bash-3.1# perl -V
Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 8 subversion 8) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=solaris, osvers=2.6, archname=sun4-solaris-thread-multi
    uname='sunos axe 5.6 generic_105181-39 sun4u sparc sunw,ultra-60 '
    config_args='-ders -Dcc=cc -Dusethreads -Duseithreads -Ud_sigsetjm
+p -Uinstallusrbinperl -Ulocincpth= -Uloclibpth= -Ud_strerror_r -Accfl
+ags=-DUSE_SITECUSTOMIZE -Duselargefiles -Accflags=-DNO_HASH_SEED -Dpr
+efix=/opt/ActivePerl-5.8 -Dprivlib=/opt/ActivePerl-5.8/lib -Darchlib=
+/opt/ActivePerl-5.8/lib -Dsiteprefix=/opt/ActivePerl-5.8/site -Dsitel
+ib=/opt/ActivePerl-5.8/site/lib -Dsitearch=/opt/ActivePerl-5.8/site/l
+ib -Dsed=/usr/bin/sed -Dconfig_heavy=Config_static.pl -Dcf_by=ActiveS
+tate -Dcf_email=[e-mail]'
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    usethreads=define use5005threads=undef useithreads=define usemulti
+plicity=define
    useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef
    use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef
    usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='cc', ccflags ='-D_POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS -D_REENTRANT -DUSE_S
+ITECUSTOMIZE -DNO_HASH_SEED -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=6
+4',
    optimize='-O',
    cppflags='-D_POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS -D_REENTRANT -DUSE_SITECUSTOM
+IZE -DNO_HASH_SEED'
    ccversion='Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 C 5.3 Patch 111679-14 2004/02/2
+0', gccversion='', gccosandvers=''
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=4321
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=1
+6
    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/WS6U
+2/lib '
    libpth=/usr/lib /usr/ccs/lib /opt/SUNWspro/WS6U2/lib /usr/local/li
+b
    libs=-lsocket -lnsl -ldl -lm -lpthread -lc
    perllibs=-lsocket -lnsl -ldl -lm -lpthread -lc
    libc=, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
    gnulibc_version=''
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' '
    cccdlflags='-KPIC', lddlflags='-G -L/usr/lib -L/usr/ccs/lib -L/opt
+/SUNWspro/WS6U2/lib'


Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): 
  Compile-time options: MULTIPLICITY PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT
                        PERL_MALLOC_WRAP USE_ITHREADS USE_LARGE_FILES
                        USE_PERLIO USE_REENTRANT_API USE_SITECUSTOMIZE
  Locally applied patches:
        ActivePerl Build 820 [274679]
        Iin_load_module moved for compatibility with build 806
        PerlEx support in CGI::Carp
        Less verbose ExtUtils::Install and Pod::Find
        Patch for CAN-2005-0448 from Debian with modifications
        Rearrange @INC so that 'site' is searched before 'perl'
        Partly reverted 24733 to preserve binary compatibility
        28376 Add error checks after execing PL_cshname or PL_sh_path
        28305 Pod::Html should not convert "foo" into ``foo''
        27833 Change anchor generation in Pod::Html for '=item item 2'
        27832,27847 fix Pod::Html::depod() for multi-line strings
        27736 Make perl_fini() run with Sun WorkShop compiler
        27719 Document the functions htmlify() and anchorify() in Pod:
+:Html
        27619 Bug in Term::ReadKey being triggered by a bug in Term::R
+eadLine
        27549 Move DynaLoader.o into libperl.so
        27515 ignore directories when searching @INC
        27359 Fix -d:Foo=bar syntax
        27210 Fix quote typo in c2ph
        27203 Allow compiling swigged C++ code
        27133 Initialise lastparen in the regexp structure
        27061 L<PerlIO> and Pod::Html
        27034 Avoid "Prototype mismatch" warnings with autouse
        26970 Make Passive mode the default for Net::FTP
        26921 Avoid getprotobyname/number calls in IO::Socket::INET
        26897,26903 Make common IPPROTO_* constants always available
        26670 Make '-s' on the shebang line parse -foo=bar switches
        26536 INSTALLSCRIPT versus INSTALLDIRS
        26087 Storable 0.1 compatibility
        25861 IO::File performace issue
        25084 long groups entry could cause memory exhaustion
        24699 ICMP_UNREACHABLE handling in Net::Ping
  Built under solaris
  Compiled at Jan 23 2007 12:00:36
  @INC:
    /opt/ActivePerl-5.8/site/lib
    /opt/ActivePerl-5.8/lib
    .

Both systems generated the exact same output (I did a diff on it n_n).