=head1 NAME
-README.solaris - Perl version 5 on Solaris systems
+perlsolaris - Perl version 5 on Solaris systems
=head1 DESCRIPTION
Starting with Solaris 8, perl5.00503 (or higher) is supplied with the
operating system, so you might not even need to build a newer version
of perl at all. The Sun-supplied version is installed in /usr/perl5
-with /usr/bin/perl pointing to /usr/perl5/bin/perl. Do not disturb
+with F</usr/bin/perl> pointing to F</usr/perl5/bin/perl>. Do not disturb
that installation unless you really know what you are doing. If you
remove the perl supplied with the OS, you will render some bits of
your system inoperable. If you wish to install a newer version of perl,
to use are /usr/local and /opt/perl.
You may wish to put your version of perl in the PATH of all users by
-changing the link /usr/bin/perl. This is probably OK, as most perl
+changing the link F</usr/bin/perl>. This is probably OK, as most perl
scripts shipped with Solaris use an explicit path. (There are a few
-exceptions, such as /usr/bin/rpm2cpio and /etc/rcm/scripts/README, but
+exceptions, such as F</usr/bin/rpm2cpio> and F</etc/rcm/scripts/README>, but
these are also sufficiently generic that the actual version of perl
probably doesn't matter too much.)
Solaris may include two versions of perl, e.g. Solaris 9 includes
both 5.005_03 and 5.6.1. This is to provide stability across Solaris
releases, in cases where a later perl version has incompatibilities
-with the version included in the preceeding Solaris release. The
+with the version included in the preceding Solaris release. The
default perl version will always be the most recent, and in general
the old version will only be retained for one Solaris release. Note
also that the default perl will NOT be configured to search for modules
Several tools needed to build perl are located in /usr/ccs/bin/: ar,
as, ld, and make. Make sure that /usr/ccs/bin/ is in your PATH.
-You need to make sure the following packages are installed
-(this info is extracted from the Solaris FAQ):
+
+On all the released versions of Solaris (8, 9 and 10) you need to make sure the following packages are installed (this info is extracted from the Solaris FAQ):
for tools (sccs, lex, yacc, make, nm, truss, ld, as): SUNWbtool,
SUNWsprot, SUNWtoo
for libraries & headers: SUNWhea, SUNWarc, SUNWlibm, SUNWlibms, SUNWdfbh,
-SUNWcg6h, SUNWxwinc, SUNWolinc
+SUNWcg6h, SUNWxwinc
+
+Additionaly, on Solaris 8 and 9 you also need:
for 64 bit development: SUNWarcx, SUNWbtoox, SUNWdplx, SUNWscpux,
SUNWsprox, SUNWtoox, SUNWlmsx, SUNWlmx, SUNWlibCx
+And only on Solaris 8 you also need:
+
+for libraries & headers: SUNWolinc
+
+
If you are in doubt which package contains a file you are missing,
try to find an installation that has that file. Then do a
=head3 GNU as and GNU ld
The following information applies to gcc version 2. Volunteers to
-update it as appropropriate for gcc version 3 would be appreciated.
+update it as appropriately for gcc version 3 would be appreciated.
The versions of as and ld supplied with Solaris work fine for building
perl. There is normally no need to install the GNU versions to
is a common problem on Solaris, where 'ar' is in the /usr/ccs/bin/
directory.
-=item warning: dead part of constant expression is nonconstant
-
-If you are using the Sun Studio 10 compilers ('cc -V' reports "Sun C 5.7") you
-may see lots of these errors while building perl. This is an erroneous warning
-from the compiler, if you are interested in the details the Sun bug id is
-6344975. The warnings can safely be ignored, but if they bother you they may
-be suppressed by adding "-Accflags=-erroff=E_DEAD_NONCONST" to your Configure
-command-line. Note however that earlier versions of the compiler don't have the
-ability to report this warning and will complain about a bad message tag if you
-specify that you want the compiler to suppress the warning. Note also that the
-erroff option embedded into Config.pm and will be used for building any XSUB
-modules post-install.
-
=back
=head1 MAKE TEST
=head2 op/stat.t test 4 in Solaris
-op/stat.t test 4 may fail if you are on a tmpfs of some sort.
+F<op/stat.t> test 4 may fail if you are on a tmpfs of some sort.
Building in /tmp sometimes shows this behavior. The
test suite detects if you are building in /tmp, but it may not be able
to catch all tmpfs situations.
symbolic link /dev/urandom pointing to /dev/random. For more details,
see Document ID27606 entitled "Differing /dev/random support requirements
within Solaris[TM] Operating Environments", available at
-http://sunsolve.sun.com .
+L<http://sunsolve.sun.com> .
It may be possible to use the Entropy Gathering Daemon (written in
Perl!), available from L<http://www.lothar.com/tech/crypto/>.
... relocation truncated to fit: BASE13 ...
and dies. Therefore the SunOS 4.1 hints file explicitly sets the
-ld to be /usr/bin/ld.
+ld to be F</usr/bin/ld>.
As of Perl 5.8.1 the dynamic loading of libraries (DynaLoader, XSLoader)
also seems to have become broken in in SunOS 4.x. Therefore the default