moving Perl::DBI to a Solaris 2.8 machine without a compiler

From: Bruce Shaw (Bruce.Shaw_at_gov.ab.ca)
Date: 04/16/04 

To: "'dbi-users@perl.org'" <dbi-users@perl.org>
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 14:35:14 -0600

For reasons beyond my control, I need to use

Perl version 5.8.2
DBI-1.39
DBD-Oracle-1.14
TermReadKey-2.21

together on a machine lacking a compiler. I have compiled everything
successfully on a different, pretty-much-identical machine and got Perl
moved over successfully. However, when I try to install Perl::DBI I run
into trouble. When I do a make install, it returns

/usr/ucb/cc: language optional software package not installed

which is Sun's uninformative way of informing you that you don't have a
proper compiler installed. I cannot install the compiler on this system
because we don't have a license for it and we cannot use gcc as it conflicts
with other software. There's no reason for it to compile as everything is
already built. I think it's a timestamp issue.

I looked through Makefile and Makefile.PL and couldn't find any obvious way
of doing it. The guys on #perl suggested making a package, but I'm not sure
how to do that.

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