This is good idea. Thanks Your best bet is to recompile perl with gcc then install DBI.
-----Original Message----- From: Ronald J Kimball [mailto:rjk-dbi@;focalex.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 12:30 PM To: Tim Bunce Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: (Fwd) [Fwd] [perl #18355] Perl DBI On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 05:14:25PM +0000, Tim Bunce wrote: > Be gentle. > > ----- Forwarded message from "[EMAIL PROTECTED] via RT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- > > Date: 13 Nov 2002 15:43:42 -0000 > To: "AdminCc of perl Ticket #18355": ; > From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED] via RT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [perl #18355] Perl DBI > > > Wed Nov 13 07:43:42 2002: Request 18355 was acted upon. > Transaction: Ticket created by [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Queue: cpansearch > Subject: Perl DBI > Owner: Nobody > Requestors: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Status: new > Ticket <URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=18355 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Dear Sir, I am very dissapointed at the way Perl community presents Perl > DBI installation. Instead of simply give the binary for Solaris and let > the engineer continue with work, no you insist on compiling the perl > source code without considering side effects (no wonder Microsoft is > winning the game). Let me tell you the problem: When I try to compile > perl DBI, I get a message that (Optional Language Package not > installed). I tried all various forms of Solaris installation and it > keeps failing simply because Sun believes that it should charge poeple > for giving a simple "cc" compiler. So I can not install Perl DBI on > Solaris, because I do not have cc be default installaed on Sun > workstations. Is it possible for you to give me the binary version of > Perl DBI and relief me from compiling it? As loyal DBI users, we would describe this as a problem with Solaris, not a problem with DBI. :) Sun should not have provided a perl compiled with cc while withholding cc. It is difficult to provide a pre-compiled DBI for Solaris, because the compilation depends on various configuration parameters that will be specific to your machine, such as the compiler, the locations of libraries, the integer size, and so on. Your best bet is to recompile perl with gcc, then install DBI. Otherwise, you will likely have the same issue with every other Perl module you want to install that has to be compiled. Ronald
