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<DIV>Fulko,</DIV>
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<DIV>In my experience Solaris binaries are pretty portable across different
versions of the OS. I use Solaris 9 to create my binaries.</DIV>
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<DIV>A Perl build will search for various libraries and link to them. If
the same libraries are missing from the target machine then it will complain
about missing libraries on the target machine. If you run into this issue,
you can force the build to only use a smaller subset of available
libraries.</DIV>
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<DIV>Also it is not hard to install GCC and tools.</DIV>
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<DIV>If you want to do a quick test of a pre-built Perl installation, try
downloading and installing Perl2Exe for Solaris. The Perl2Exe download
comes with a self-contained copy of a Perl binary along with Perl2Exe. You can
just ignore the Perl2Exe part. The binary is designed to allow installation in
any directory, it uses just one directory, does not scatter files in other
directory. It does not require root permission for installation.</DIV>
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<DIV>Here are the steps:</DIV>
<DIV>Download one of the installation tarballs from indigostar.com.</DIV>
<DIV>Untar in your home directory</DIV>
<DIV>cd into the perl2exe directory</DIV>
<DIV>run ./setup</DIV>
<DIV>The Perl binary will be in ~/perl2exe/perl5/bin</DIV>
<DIV>Add this directory to your PATH environment variable</DIV>
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<DIV>I am assuming that the hardware is SPARC. If the hardware is Intel
and you can get a copy of Solaris 8 installation disks then you have the option
to install Solaris in a virtual machine for testing and development.</DIV>
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<DIV>Indy Singh<BR>IndigoSTAR Software -- www.indigostar.com</DIV></DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=fulko.hew@gmail.com
href="mailto:fulko.hew@gmail.com">Fulko Hew</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Monday, July 16, 2012 11:41 AM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=toronto-pm@pm.org
href="mailto:toronto-pm@pm.org">TPM</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> [tpm] will a pre-built (for Solaris 10) perl distribution
work onSolaris 8?</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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face="courier new,monospace">As the subject line asks...<BR><BR>Does anyone know
if a Perl distribution built for Solaris 10<BR>will install and work on Solaris
8?<BR><BR>I've got people who have some systems still running on Solaris
8,<BR>but its Perl is really really old (5.00503) and they need something<BR>'a
little newer' to be able to run my app.<BR><BR>They'd prefer to install a binary
distribution;<BR>especially since their Solaris 8 machine might not have
all<BR>of the development tools required to build a newer Perl.<BR><BR>Comments
anyone ?<BR><BR>Fulko<BR><BR><BR></FONT>
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