On 28/12/2009 07:00 PM, Carl Fürstenberg wrote:
I have a tone of local compiled (xs) perl modules which will most certainly break, and I really don't know if I can magically convert my $HOME/.cpan to solaris without much great pain
I see.
have you installed all perl modules which where installed under linux?
Probably not, unless someone requested them.
does they exists as packages or does most of them require "manual" install?
We never do manual installs of software, it's unmaintainable. For Solaris we have a well-developed system to build local packages.
Is solaris 32bit or 64bit?
It supports both. All Toolserver machines are 64-bit.
i.e. are the risk of breaking people relying on 64bit ints?
If you're talking about Perl specifically, our local Solaris Perl build is compiled as 32-bit, but has 64-bit integers enabled. For other languages, it depends; in C, for example, it isn't an issue, since you can just use int64_t. (Nearly all 32-bit systems, including Solaris and Linux, provide 64-bit integers even in 32-bit mode.)
- river.