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

[Harry Putnam]

Tim Mooney <Tim.Mooney at ndsu.edu> writes:

> In regard to: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Is there a perl setup that installs...:
>
>> I guess your saying that the cpan that is onboard after install is a
>> bad idea.
>
> I would say that cpan in general is a bad idea, but I'm a bit more
> hardcore about packaging that most.
>
>> 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?
>
> Yup.  I build and package my own copy of perl for use on Solaris and now
> OpenIndiana.  Perl is actually pretty trouble-free to build on Solaris and
> successors.
>
> I build 64 bit with the Oracle Studio compiler and enable threading,
> and my Configure line looks something like:

Thanks for the help and configure flags... 
Oh, and the build pkgs... as it turns out I have those you mention
installed. 

One question; what do you do if you need a specific module that is not
in your pkged perl.

Do you rebuild perl, add it, then repackage for solaris, or do you add
it to the running perl somehow? 

Are there other folks using your perl pkgs?