[Bioperl-l] biosql & bioperl-db on Solaris

[Brian Osborne]

Mike,

If I'm understanding this correctly you'd like the build to use gcc. Did you
try things like:

setenv CC gcc

?

The equivalent of the command above in the CPAN shell would be:

cpan>o conf makepl_arg CC=gcc


Brian O.

> 
> This is not strictly a bioperl or biosql issue, but is related. In the
> process of trying to install bioperl-db on a Solaris 9 system, I had to go
> back and install the latest bioperl, DBI, AND DBD modules. The DBD install
> via CPAN is failing for an ELF64 incompatibility when it tries to link to
> the mysql client libs because I also installed the
> latest 64bit mysql. According to the mysql docs, 64bit is 4% slower
> than the 32bit version, but you get more threads and memory (which would
> seem to be faster in the long run).
> 
> Although I have installed gcc and gnu make, CPAN is picking up the native
> Sun compiler (and why do they spread things out over so many
> subdirectories?) and linker.
> 
> Has anyone else come up against this before (I didn't find anything in the
> archives)? Is the best course to install a 32bit mysql? Should I forgo
> CPAN and try to do a manual install where I might have some control over
> Makefile.PL? Has anybody tried biosql on a 64bit system and does it make a
> difference?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Mike
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