From Manchester Way

I can’t imagine using Subversion without ViewVC anymore. There’s no package, but it isn’t too hard to get it working on OpenSolaris.

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The version of perl installed by default (2009.06) is 5.8.4. We’d like it to be

1. More recent and
2. Compiled locally.

The reason it needs to be compiled locally arises if you want to use modules from CPAN which contain compiled code. The assumption is that the installed perl was built with Sun’s c compiler whereas modules on CPAN are more than likely compiled with gcc.

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