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

[Michael Hase]

On Wed, 28 Aug 2013, Harry Putnam wrote:

> 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.

Yes (imho).

>
> 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?

Exactly. Either /usr/local or even better something like 
/usr/local/perl/5.18.1 So you can have different perl versions.

>
> 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.

The usual C toolchain, developer/gnu should be a good starting point. Or 
sunstudio.

Michael