[OpenIndiana-discuss] How to have cpan shell not act like primative ungainly turd

[John D Groenveld]

In message <alpine.GSO.2.01.1501082103260.18732 at freddy.simplesystems.org>, Bob 
Friesenhahn writes:
>I suspect that this depends on if Perl is linked with GNU readline (a 
>library) on my Solaris 10 system where I installed Perl myself, 
>command line editing and history works properly.

Term::ReadKey and Term::ReadLine::[Gnu|Perl]

>It order to escape this, you can install Perl from source code 
>compiled with GCC.  Expect it to be an adventure.

For a RT installation on OmniOS, Perl was built like so
$ env PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/ccs/bin:/usr/sfw/bin:/usr/gnu/bin:/opt/gcc-4.8.1/bin \
./Configure -Dprefix=/opt/rt4/perl-5.20.1 -Dcc=gcc -Duseshrplib \
-Uusemymalloc -Duselargefiles -Ubincompat5005 -Domptimize=-O3 \
-Duse64bitall

John
groenveld at acm.org