Greetings, I saw a few messages about this, and I thought I should ask the same question.
I am installing DBI 1.49, since my system has perl 5.6.1. I do not have a sun compiler available, nor do I have root authority. I have 'installed' gcc, however. Seems to me there should be a way to tell Makefile.PL to generate a makefile with gcc specific flags, but I am having difficulty finding documentation on how to invoke Makefile.PL. Is Makefile.PL documented anywhere? Is there a way to make it generate code for gcc? Next... Tim has documented in the README: It is best to use a Perl that was built on the system you are trying to use and it's also important to use the same compiler that was used to build the Perl you are using. Can someone explain to me why the compiled code for DBI needs to match the compiler that created perl? Clearly I'm missing something... thanks phil
