When I first installed polaris I used gcc as the system compiler as I had no licensed SunWorks C compiler. I recently acquired it and now it's time to convert the system to SunWorks C from gcc. This will probably include recompiling everything that has been compiled with gcc to let it use SunWorks. It hopefully also fixes the ugly LD_LIBRARY_PATH kludge I'm having around to keep everything work.

I'm particulary afraid what is going to happen with my own perl build. A lot of stuff relies on it, for example MT but also a lot of handinstalled CPAN modules. I guess that will cause a lot of recompiling to do :(

I'll keep you posted on issues I am going to run into. Ok, Issue #1, Where is the bloody C++ compiler ? It's called /opt/SUNWspro/bin/CC (yes capitals).

Ok, Issue #2, After purging SMCgcc all kinds of software break on libgcc missing ? Yup, that was to be expected huh, recompile all software that uses it ;)

Ok, Issue #3, lftp won't compile on Solaris 9 ? Use lftp 3.0.6 and ncurses 5.4 and it worked here.

At the moment I've recompiled almost all software with SunWorks, except for perl. As this will be an quite enormous job to do. Things I've have to take in mind:

irssi uses perl as an backend, mt uses perl and there is CPAN that has to be recompiled. It seems that there is an easy switch for CPAN to get recompiled. As gcc is completely gone from the system perl really has to be recompiled. Future CPAN modules might get issues when compiling against old gcc files.

Well let's start with the job :)

Ok, Issue #4, irssi bugs when compiling on Solaris 9 ? First recompile perl, then irssi!