I am trying to install Perl 5.005 on solaris 2.5, following the perl
installation guide in INSTALL file that comes with Perl software

However, according to the installation procedure, it instruct me to to excute "make" command after running the Configure which I did but everytime I excute "make" command respond with an error message

"ld.so.1: make: fatal: relocation error: file make: symbol stat64: referenced
symbol not found
Killed"

I have set my path variable to include /usr/ucb and my LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable to include /usr/local/lib:/usr/lib:/usr/ccs/lib:/lib

but still having problems, can you help please

Thanks in Advance

Which compiler are you using? In the INSTALL file you should find the following:

If you have problems with dynamic loading using gcc on SunOS or
Solaris, and you are using GNU as and GNU ld, you may need to add
-B/bin/ (for SunOS) or -B/usr/ccs/bin/ (for Solaris) to your
$ccflags, $ldflags, and $lddlflags so that the system's versions of as
and ld are used. Note that the trailing '/' is required.
Alternatively, you can use the GCC_EXEC_PREFIX
environment variable to ensure that Sun's as and ld are used. Consult
your gcc documentation for further information on the -B option and
the GCC_EXEC_PREFIX variable.

One convenient way to ensure you are not using GNU as and ld is to
invoke Configure with

sh Configure -Dcc='gcc -B/usr/ccs/bin/'

for Solaris systems. For a SunOS system, you must use -B/bin/
instead.

Alternatively, recent versions of GNU ld reportedly work if you
include C<-Wl,-export-dynamic> in the ccdlflags variable in
config.sh.

=item ld.so.1: ./perl: fatal: relocation error:

If you get this message on SunOS or Solaris, and you're using gcc,
it's probably the GNU as or GNU ld problem in the previous item
L<"Solaris and SunOS dynamic loading">.

Another link which may help

Thanks for your reply.

I have tried the above but still receiving the same error message. I am using gcc version 2.8.1
would upgrading gcc solve the problem?


Thanks again