Trouble getting perlbrew working on Solaris machine

[mje]

I've spent quite a bit of time trying to get perlbrew working on Solaris and now I'm stuck. The basic position I'm in now is:

$ perlbrew list
* perl-5.16.1
$ perlbrew switch perl-5.16.1
$ which perl
/export/home/sources/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.16.1/bin/perl
$ echo $PERLBREW_ROOT
/export/home/sources/perl5/perlbrew
# NOTE the relative paths below
# These differ from a linux box using perlbrew where
# the paths are absolute.
$ perl -MCPAN -le 'print'
Can't locate CPAN.pm in @INC (@INC contains: ../lib/site_perl/5.16.1/s
+un4-solaris ../lib/site_perl/5.16.1 ../lib/5.16.1/sun4-solaris ../lib
+/5.16.1 .).
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted.
$ cd ~/perl5
$ find . -name CPAN.pm
./perlbrew/perls/perl-5.16.1/lib/5.16.1/CPAN.pm
./perlbrew/build/perl-5.16.1/cpan/CPAN/lib/CPAN.pm
./perlbrew/build/perl-5.16.1/lib/CPAN.pm

Some background.

I have sourced ~/perl5/perlbrew/etc/bashrc and I am running bash shell.

I just ran perlbrew install perl-5.16.1 to install 5.16.1 and it completed ok.

The box is used for other things so I did not want to change anything outside this account. As perlbrew uses HTTPS I needed a openssl installed for wget or curl. wget was a pain as the C source contains variable declarations in functions after code and after I'd fixed a number of these I got fed up and tried curl. Once I had a working curl perlbrew seems to need gtar which is gnu tar so I built that too. There were other issues with 3 argument open in perlbrew as the system Perl was 5.005_03 and perlbrew does a self-upgrade at the start.

[rurban]

Have you tried the better alternative perlall? Runs fine on my solaris box. With gcc and sun cc.

[mje]

No, I'll look that up. Thanks.

[kcott]

G'day mje,

I'm using perlbrew and bash. I'm on a different OS (Mac OS X) and using Perl 5.14.2. Here's some thoughts on the problem you describe.

I get much the same results as you up to and including echo $PERLBREW_ROOT.

With find . ..., the relative paths are what I'd expect (and what I get) because the search starts at the relative directory . (dot - current directory). I don't have a Linux box to test on: find may be implemented differently; although, I suspect the command find / ... may have been used - searching from the absolute direcrtory / (slash - root directory).

How did you source ~/perl5/perlbrew/etc/bashrc? At the end of my ~/.bash_profile, I have

. ~/.bashrc

My ~/.bashrc only contains:

. ~/perl5/perlbrew/etc/bashrc

Did you type which perl and perl -MCPAN -le 'print' in the same window (login session)? It's possible that bashrc was sourced in one but not the other.

Does perl -V show the same @INC as you got from the perl -MCPAN ... command?

I suspect it's unlikely but you could also check for aliases (i.e. alias perl=...) which you may have picked up by sourcing the systemwide bashrc (possibly called /etc/bashrc).

[mje]

All that shell output was pasted from the same terminal session. I put the source command in the ~/bash_profile logged out then back in but just for luck I also sourced it manually. The find command was issued from ~/perl5 (as the output shows, the login dir of that user then perl5 where perlbrew installed itself). perl -V does not work:

$ perl -V
Can't locate Config.pm in @INC (@INC contains: ../lib/site_perl/5.16.1
+/sun4-solaris ../lib/site_perl/5.16.1 ../lib/5.16.1/sun4-solaris ../l
+ib/5.16.1 .).
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted.
$ cd ~/perl5
$ find . -name Config.pm -print
./perlbrew/perls/perl-5.16.1/lib/5.16.1/sun4-solaris/Config.pm
./perlbrew/build/perl-5.16.1/lib/Config.pm
./perlbrew/Config.pm
# I filtered out some other Config.pms

[gugod]

Hmm, you're probably run into issues with userelocatableinc . It was enabled by default for perl version >= 5.15.5 and worked fine on Mac/Linux, but apparently it has issues on other platforms.

For now you may try to re-install perl-5.16.1 again by doing

PERLBREW_CONFIGURE_FLAGS="-de" perlbrew install perl-5.16.1

(After a `perlbrew uninstall perl-5.16.1` -- that essentially rm -rf the directory.)

However I believe if you put full path shebang in your programs it should be good to run. It's just the perlbrew switching function that does not work well.