[OpenIndiana-discuss] Is there a perl setup that installs more modules

[Harry Putnam]

Michael Hase <michael at edition-software.de> writes:

> On Wed, 28 Aug 2013, Harry Putnam wrote:
>
>> Running 151a7
>>
>> I have the default perl pkg that comes with the install.  It does not
>> have some of the pkgs I like to use.
>>
>> Is there a pkg that installs a bunch of perl modules or do I just have
>> to do it thru cpan?
>>
>> pkg search perl outputs 463 items... but I didn't notice anything that
>> looked too promising?
>
> I'd recommend to install your own perl version, and then install the
> missing modules with cpan. Compiling perl is easy. When using the
> system provided cpan you always mess with system directories, and the
> pkg manager can get confused.

Not sure what you meant where you talk about:
> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  When using the
> system provided cpan you always mess with system directories, and the
> pkg manager can get confused.

I guess your saying that the cpan that is onboard after install is a
bad idea.

Its been a good while since I built perl... and that was on linux, so
does that not use system folders?  You just put it somewhere out of
way of the main line stuff like /usr/local?

To build perl do you have a pretty good idea of what development
tools I need to have installed.  I believe there is a set that is
recommended but my googling isn't finding it.