Perl FAQ 1.17

The following directions are for perl, version 4. Perl, version 5, should compile more easily. If not, send mail to The Perl Porters Mailing List (perl5-porters@nicoh.com)

John Lees* reports:

I have built perl on Solaris 2.1, 2.2 beta, and 2.2 FCS. Take /usr/ucb out of your path and do not use any BSD/UCB libraries. Only -lsocket, -lnsl, and -lm are needed. You can use the hint for Solaris 2.0, but the one for 2.1 is wrong. Do not use vfork. Do not use -I/usr/ucbinclude. The result works fine for me, but of couse does not support a couple of BSDism's.

Casper H.S. Dik* reports

You must remove all the references to /usr/ucblib AND /usr/ucbinclude. And ignore the Solaris_2.1 hints. They are wrong. The undefining of vfork() probably has to do with the confusion it gives to the compilers. If you use cc, you mustn't compile util.c/tutil.c with -O. I only used the following libs: -lsocket -lnsl -lm (there is a problem with -lmalloc)

Michael D'Errico* reports:

If you are using Solaris 2.x, the signal handling is broken. If you set up a signal handler such as 'ripper' it will be forgotten after the first time the signal is caught. To fix this, you need to recompile Perl. Just add '#define signal(x,y) sigset((x),(y))' after the '#include ' directive in each file that it occurs, then make it again.

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