in reply to miniperl hangs during perl compilation
I'm not batting very well today so YMMV, but in the solaris notes for 5.8.5 there's this paragraph about using GNU 'as' and 'ld'...
If you decide to ignore this advice and use the GNU versions anyway, then be sure that they are relatively recent. Versions newer than 2.7 are apparently new enough. Older versions may have trouble with dynamic loading.
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