[p4perl] P4Perl Install on Solaris

[Tony Smith]

Hi Thomas,

> I'm having difficulty installing P4Perl and I was wondering if someone
> would be able to help me out.
>
> Here is what I have:
> SunOS 5.9
> gcc version 3.4.2
> Latest release of P4Perl
> Perl 5.6.1
> Perl API 04.2 for Solaris8

Looks like your build is mixing gcc and Sun's compiler.

> Here are my results:

> c++ -c -I/home/tom/perforce -Ilib -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
> -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -O   -DVERSION=\"3.4831\" -DXS_VERSION=\"3.4831\"
> -KPIC -I/usr/local/perl5.6.1/lib/5.6.1/sun4-solaris/CORE -Dsolaris
> -DOS_SOLARIS29 -Dconst_char='const char' -DP4API_VERSION=513026 P4.c c++:
> unrecognized option `-KPIC'

'gcc -KPIC' is not valid for gcc so my guess is that your Perl was built with 
Solaris' compiler, and the P4 API is built with gcc. I don't think that 
combination will work.

If that's the case, your best bet is to rebuild your Perl with gcc and then 
you'll be able to compile P4Perl.

Regards,

Tony