[bug-notifications] [pm_cpan_meta 0005024]: Need to modify Config.pm and Config_heavy.pm to get builds to work

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The following issue has been ASSIGNED. 
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https://www.opencsw.org/mantis/view.php?id=5024 
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Reported By:                lsiden
Assigned To:                dam
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Project:                    pm_cpan_meta
Issue ID:                   5024
Category:                   
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   major
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     assigned
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Date Submitted:             2012-11-21 20:50 CET
Last Modified:              2012-11-21 22:18 CET
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Summary:                    Need to modify Config.pm and Config_heavy.pm to get
builds to work
Description: 
I tried to install a Perl module IO::Pty that was unavailable in the dublin
distro and was unable to compile anything.  

First I had to modify /opt/csw/lib/perl/5.10.1/Config.pm to point to the
gcc compiler instead of the one supplied by SunOS.

When trying to install again, CPAN complained that it could not run
/opt/csw/gcc4/bin/gcc although I could run it fine from a shell
command-line.  Inspecting the compile.log file under the build directory
for IO::Tty (the module it was attempting to build as a prerequisite to
IO::Pty) revealed that gcc could not cope with an argument -norunpath. 
There are many others that the Sun version of the C/C++ compiler and ld
will work with but gcc will not.

I am attaching both my modified Config.pm and Config_heavy.pl that allowed
installs requiring compiler runs to proceed successfully.

I believe that this issue applies equally to CPAN and CPANPLUS.
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 (0010224) lsiden (reporter) - 2012-11-21 20:53
 https://www.opencsw.org/mantis/view.php?id=5024#c10224 
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I should add that hacking Config.pm and Config_heavy.pl this way is a hack.
 The true solution is to rebuild Perl using only libraries and paths
supplied by OpenCSW to make it truly compatible.