[bug-notifications] [perl 0004103]: Sun Studio Compiler PATH in Config.pm/Config_heavy.pl and config.h

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https://www.opencsw.org/mantis/view.php?id=4103 
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Reported By:                rrossi33
Assigned To:                bonivart
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Project:                    perl
Issue ID:                   4103
Category:                   other
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   tweak
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     assigned
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Date Submitted:             2009-12-29 10:41 CET
Last Modified:              2010-08-10 09:07 CEST
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Summary:                    Sun Studio Compiler PATH  in
Config.pm/Config_heavy.pl and config.h
Description: 
Wrong hard coded cc path in Config.pm/ Config_heavy.pl and config.h


cc => ´/opt/studio/SOS11/SUNWspro/bin/cc',

on Machine:

/opt/SUNWspro/bin/cc


Result:

/opt/csw/bin/perl -MCPAN -e shell
CPAN Module Compiling  - Entry in Makefile.pl:

/opt/studio/SOS11/SUNWspro/bin/cc

error in compiling 





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 (0008184) dam (administrator) - 2010-08-10 09:07
 https://www.opencsw.org/mantis/view.php?id=4103#c8184 
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Hi Dana,

(snippet from Roger:) v8plus was introduced with sun4u and unfortunately,
Sun did only drop the support for sun4d (SS10) in Solaris 9, sun4m
(SS5/5/20) was still supported. As we still have Solaris 9 as baseline we
can not safely raise the buildlevel to V8+.

Regarding 64 bit it is a misapprehension that it is always "better" than
32 bit. Unless you really need the 64 bit features (for Perl that is more
than 4 GB of memory or more than 256 filedescriptors) 64 bit is slower most
of the time because it has to shuffle more memory around (8 byte instead of
4). Please see also
 
http://www.opencsw.org/extend-it/contribute-packages/build-standards/#64vs32

That being said I would love to have a 64 bit Perl for the above reason in
addition to the 32 bit default. However, this requires rebuilding
https://www.opencsw.org/mantis/view.php?id=13#c200
packages for Perl modules containing binary libs. If you'd like to help on
this I may get the additional kick needed to do this :-)