This week I needed to install a few Perl modules on a Solaris 10 host. I didn’t want to download and install a fourth perl interpreter (Solaris 10 comes with 5.6.1, 5.8.3 and 5.8.4 for some reason), since Solaris 10 comes with a relatively recent version of Perl (5.8.4). To build the module in question (DBD::mysql), I downloaded the module from CPAN, verified that the MD5 checksum was correct, and used the following steps to compile the module:

$ perl Makefile.PL

$ make

$ make install

The ‘make Makefile.PL’ completed succesfully, but the make failed with the following errors:

$ make

cp lib/DBD/mysql.pm blib/lib/DBD/mysql.pm
cp lib/DBD/mysql/GetInfo.pm blib/lib/DBD/mysql/GetInfo.pm
cp lib/Mysql.pm blib/lib/Mysql.pm
cp lib/DBD/mysql/INSTALL.pod blib/lib/DBD/mysql/INSTALL.pod
cp lib/Mysql/Statement.pm blib/lib/Mysql/Statement.pm
cp lib/Bundle/DBD/mysql.pm blib/lib/Bundle/DBD/mysql.pm
cc -c  -I/usr/perl5/site_perl/5.8.4/i86pc-solaris-64int/auto/DBI -I/home/apps/mysql/mysql/include/mysql -DDBD_MYSQL_INSERT_ID_I
S_GOOD -g  -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_TS_ERRNO -xO3 -xspace -xildoff    -DVERSION=\"3.0006\"  -DXS_VERSION=\
"3.0006\" -KPIC "-I/usr/perl5/5.8.4/lib/i86pc-solaris-64int/CORE"   dbdimp.c
cc: unrecognized option `-KPIC'
cc: language ildoff not recognized
cc: dbdimp.c: linker input file unused because linking not done
/usr/bin/perl -p -e "s/~DRIVER~/mysql/g" /usr/perl5/site_perl/5.8.4/i86pc-solaris-64int/auto/DBI/Driver.xst > mysql.xsi
/usr/bin/perl /usr/perl5/5.8.4/lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp  -typemap /usr/perl5/5.8.4/lib/ExtUtils/typemap  mysql.xs > mysql.xsc && mv
mysql.xsc mysql.c
Warning: duplicate function definition 'do' detected in mysql.xs, line 224
Warning: duplicate function definition 'rows' detected in mysql.xs, line 567
cc -c  -I/usr/perl5/site_perl/5.8.4/i86pc-solaris-64int/auto/DBI -I/home/apps/mysql/mysql/include/mysql -DDBD_MYSQL_INSERT_ID_I
S_GOOD -g  -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_TS_ERRNO -xO3 -xspace -xildoff    -DVERSION=\"3.0006\"  -DXS_VERSION=\
"3.0006\" -KPIC "-I/usr/perl5/5.8.4/lib/i86pc-solaris-64int/CORE"   mysql.c
cc: unrecognized option `-KPIC'
cc: language ildoff not recognized
cc: mysql.c: linker input file unused because linking not done
Running Mkbootstrap for DBD::mysql ()
chmod 644 mysql.bs
rm -f blib/arch/auto/DBD/mysql/mysql.so
LD_RUN_PATH="/home/apps/mysql/mysql/lib/mysql:/lib:/usr/lib" /usr/bin/perl myld cc  -G dbdimp.o  mysql.o  -o blib/arch/auto/DBD
/mysql/mysql.so   -L/home/apps/mysql/mysql/lib/mysql -lmysqlclient -lz -lposix4 -lcrypt -lgen -lsocket -lnsl -lm
cc: dbdimp.o: No such file or directory
cc: mysql.o: No such file or directory
*** Error code 1
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `blib/arch/auto/DBD/mysql/mysql.so'

Since I was building the module with gcc, the compiler and linker got a bit confused when they were passed Sun studio compiler flags (i.e., -KPIC in this example). There are two fixes for this problem. If you want to build a single module with gcc, you can edit the Makefile that was produced by ‘perl Makefile.PL’, and remove the “-KPIC” and “-xO3 -xspace -xildoff” values from the following variables:

$ egrep ‘(KPIC|O3)’ Makefile
CCCDLFLAGS = -KPIC
OPTIMIZE = -xO3 -xspace -xildoff

If you want to use gcc to build all Perl modules on a system, you can permanently* remove the Sun Studio compiler references by adjusting the “cccdlflags” and “optimize” variables in /usr/perl5/5.8.4/lib/sun4-solaris-64int/Config.pm:

$ egrep ‘(KPIC|O3)’ Config.pm
cccdlflags=’-KPIC’
optimize=’-xO3 -xspace -xildoff’

Since I don’t want to support two compiler packages, I decided to use option #2 since gcc comes on the Solaris installation CDs.

* If you edit Config.pm, you should be aware that Solaris Perl patches will overwrite this file.

Posted by matty, filed under Perl. Date: July 29, 2006, 9:07 am |

8 Responses

  1. Ivan R. Says:
    July 30th, 2006 at 12:01 am

    You should checkout perlgcc(1), which is specifically for dealing with the situation. You’ll need /usr/perl5/bin in PATH ( and /usr/perl5/man in MANPATH ).

    Ivan.

  2. cos Says:
    July 30th, 2006 at 12:30 am

    See also the “Solaris-PerlGcc” module - you end up with a “perlgcc” command you use when you run CPAN. a tiny bit more fiddly perhaps, but works just as well.

    http://search.cpan.org/~aburlison/Solaris-PerlGcc-1.3/

  3. Andrew Gallagher Says:
    August 1st, 2006 at 5:25 pm

    The perlgcc module will not work with perl 5.8.4. See the README for Solaris-PerlGcc.

  4. Andrew Gallagher Says:
    August 1st, 2006 at 5:30 pm

    perlgcc is included in solaris 10. /usr/perl5/bin/perlgcc

  5. David Says:
    April 5th, 2007 at 7:37 pm

    perlgcc failed to install PathTools-3.24 on my sparc Solaris 10 system.
    I also got make errors when I tried matty’s edits in Config.pm. Gonna try installing Sun Studio, see how that works.

  6. Tmack Says:
    January 9th, 2008 at 7:53 pm

    You might also need to edit Config_heavy.pl (in the same dir as the Config.pm) to edit the flags and make CPAN.pm happy, since it is req’d in Config.pm. Another flag that might need removal is -xarch=386, it still complains with that present on an x2200.

  7. Tmack Says:
    January 9th, 2008 at 8:37 pm

    wrt previous comment, the perl version I used requiring the extra steps is not the one installed w/solaris, but a blastwave package, which does things a little different (thus the extra files and flags) and uses perl 5.8.8 .

  8. Jeremy McMillan Says:
    February 29th, 2008 at 7:30 pm

    OK, I’m in the same boat as Tmack. I’m looking at the Config_heavy.pl, and I don’t like editing that crap. If I have to, I will post my results here.

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