[Bug bootstrap/48135] build fails on Solaris2.8 due to Glob.pm not found within /usr/perl5

["ro at CeBiTec dot Uni-Bielefeld.DE" <gcc-bugzilla at gcc dot gnu dot org>]

http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=48135

--- Comment #13 from ro at CeBiTec dot Uni-Bielefeld.DE <ro at CeBiTec dot Uni-Bielefeld.DE> 2011-03-17 15:12:12 UTC ---
> --- Comment #12 from Denis Excoffier <Denis.Excoffier at airbus dot com> 2011-03-17 14:43:35 UTC ---
> (In reply to comment #11)
>> I don't really understand Denis' reluctance to build a newer perl as a
>> prerequisite
> No problem with perl itself, i've a working perl-5.13.10 compiled on this
> solaris8. It is that i try to build with as few prerequisites as possible:
> currently, with only an old gcc and an old make (borrowed from sunfreeware,
> you must know that on Solaris no default C compiler is installed) i am able
> to build the last GCC, then the last GNU make, then the complete tool chain
> (patch, m4, gzip, bison, tar, coreutils etc.) up to date.

I see, but on the other hand this will be a fairly uncommon undertaking.
Given that Solaris 8 is 11 years old by now, you will only rarely have a
minimal software environment and suddenly develop the desire to bring
that completely up to date :-)

Btw., what's your reason to still be running Solaris 8?  I'm the Solaris
GCC maintainer and seriously consider to deprecate it for GCC 4.7.

> I would have to also find a working binary perl, no big deal but if we can
> avoid that using a few sed commands, that's perfect.

Certainly not: either I can make make_sunver.pl work with the core perl
glob, or the --disable-symver option will be made to work properly.

    Rainer