What is the 'best practice' for installing perl modules on Solaris/OpenSolaris?
- by AndrewR
I'm currently in the process of writing setup instructions for some software I've written that is implemented as a set of Perl modules. Having done this for various flavours of Linux, I'm now doing the same for Solaris/OpenSolaris (v10 only).
Part of the setup process is to make sure that dependent Perl modules are installed. This has been pretty easy on Linux as the Perl modules I require tend to be within the distro's packaging system (eg yum install perl-Cache-Cache).
This is not the case on Solaris so I'm working on setup instructions that use the CPAN module to fetch dependent modules (eg perl -MCPAN -e 'install Cache::Cache'). This works ok but there are known problems with modules that require things to be built with a C compiler.
The problem is that the C Makefile generated assumes you're using Sun's compiler and uses command-line options not understood by gcc, which you may be using instead. Consulting teh Internetz has thrown up a number of solutions to this:
Install and use Sun's compiler
Use the perlgcc wrapper script
Edit the makefiles by hand (yuk)
All of these work. My question to those more familiar with Solaris than me is: Is one of these the 'best' or 'most commonly used' method?
