to use are /usr/local and /opt/perl.
You may wish to put your version of perl in the PATH of all users by
-changing the link /usr/bin/perl. This is OK, as all perl scripts
-shipped with Solaris use an explicit path. Solaris ships with a
-range of Solaris-specific modules. If you choose to install your own
-version of perl you will find the source of many of these modules is
-available on CPAN under the Sun::Solaris:: namespace.
+changing the link /usr/bin/perl. This is probably OK, as most perl
+scripts shipped with Solaris use an explicit path. (There are a few
+exceptions, such as /usr/bin/rpm2cpio and /etc/rcm/scripts/README, but
+these are also sufficiently generic that the actual version of perl
+probably doesn't matter too much.)
+
+Solaris ships with a range of Solaris-specific modules. If you choose
+to install your own version of perl you will find the source of many of
+these modules is available on CPAN under the Sun::Solaris:: namespace.
Solaris may include two versions of perl, e.g. Solaris 9 includes
both 5.005_03 and 5.6.1. This is to provide stability across Solaris
is a common problem on Solaris, where 'ar' is in the /usr/ccs/bin/
directory.
+=item warning: dead part of constant expression is nonconstant
+
+If you are using the Sun Studio 10 compilers ('cc -V' reports "Sun C 5.7") you
+may see lots of these errors while building perl. This is an erroneous warning
+from the compiler, if you are interested in the details the Sun bug id is
+6344975. The warnings can safely be ignored, but if they bother you they may
+be suppressed by adding "-Accflags=-erroff=E_DEAD_NONCONST" to your Configure
+command-line. Note however that earlier versions of the compiler don't have the
+ability to report this warning and will complain about a bad message tag if you
+specify that you want the compiler to suppress the warning. Note also that the
+erroff option embedded into Config.pm and will be used for building any XSUB
+modules post-install.
+
=back
=head1 MAKE TEST
symbolic link /dev/urandom pointing to /dev/random. For more details,
see Document ID27606 entitled "Differing /dev/random support requirements
within Solaris[TM] Operating Environments", available at
-http://support.sunsoft.com.
+http://sunsolve.sun.com .
It may be possible to use the Entropy Gathering Daemon (written in
Perl!), available from L<http://www.lothar.com/tech/crypto/>.
and many other Solaris users over the years.
Please report any errors, updates, or suggestions to F<perlbug@perl.org>.
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