[Orca-users] Problem compiling orca-0.27 on Solaris 10

[colin at ccsisupport.com]

Hi Jim;

> Hi, All
>
> I'm trying to compile Orca 0.27 on Solaris 10 using gcc. I don't have
> the Sun C compiler installed. The configure script seems to run cleanly.
> The make fails however somewhere in the Perl modules apparently because
> it is trying to use cc instead of gcc. The messages are as follows:

(snip)

> which I think means it doesn't like that version of Perl.

Exactly!

> What am I doing wrong here?


I've just gone through this fun on Solaris 8. There are a few things I've
found.

Despite the fact that it's the latest actual release, Orca 0.27 is very
old and very buggy. Download the latest snapshot for, um...fewer bugs.
I don't know if there will actually be another release.

Secondly, you (more or less) need to use the same compiler for Orca that
was used for Perl. This means either downloading Sun's Studio 11 compiler
(free, and generally better than gcc), or compile perl from source with
gcc.

Once I had compiled Perl with gcc, running configure and make on a clean
archive of Orca-r529 worked as advertised. Haven't tried on Solaris 10 yet,
as I gather there are some problems with Solaris 10 data collection piece.

Good luck,
Colin