Felix Schulte wrote: > Perls Configure did not care about testing for sfio support on Solaris > since Solaris never shipped with libast until now. The same problem > exists on Linux - but they are going to fix that. Now its Suns turn to > do the same.
I've discussed this with the other perl developers, and as one of them succinctly put it 'We don't use sfio by default, in fact, I've no idea if sfio even compiles". If you want a sfio-enabled perl you will have to build your own. >> As with most things Solaris-related we favour stability and >> predictability over almost everything else, and in the case of perl if >> people don't like our choices they can always build their own version. > Which is tricky at best since the Sun version sits in the default > installation location for perl and applications choose to use that > version of perl. There is no easy drop in way to replace it. Actually, you are about as wrong as you could be. Sun's perl lives under /usr/perl5 with /usr/bin/perl being a symlink, the default location that perl's Configure uses is /usr/local. In addition you can easily replace the perl we ship with your own - see the perlsolaris manpage. -- Alan Burlison --
