[Sunhelp] Webmin perl

[Marc Sebastian Pelzer]

On Sun, 29 Oct 2000, Ian Hall-Beyer wrote:

> >Try going to www.sunfreeware.com.
> 
> I would stay away from the perl package on sunfreeware - it's given me
> nothing but problems, mainly with CPAN.pm, especially if your local
> compiler is gcc. All the problems went away when I rebuilt perl from
> source on the target machine. 

this is exactly my thought. Using sunfreeware.com's perl is a pain
for example in combination with DBI/DBD::* database access or other
pm's.

The best is getting the newest gcc and compile it (with gcc from sunfreeware),
then remove the gcc-pkg and compile perl 5.6.

Marc.