Kstat utility not functioning after removing perl version that came with OS

Question

I apologize in advance if this isn't the proper forum but maybe somebody could point me in the right direction (or where else to ask this question).
I need to get the kstat utility working again on a Solaris 9 machine. The perl version that came with the OS was removed and a new version was installed in /usr/local/perl5.8.6. The modules on which kstat depends upon I'm assuming need to be installed into the new perl installation.
I get the following:
$ kstat
Can't locate Sun/Solaris/Utils.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/local/perl5.8.6/lib/5.8.6/sun4-solaris /usr/local/perl5.8.6/lib/5.8.6 /usr/local/perl5.8.6/lib/site_perl/5.8.6/sun4-solaris /usr/local/perl5.8.6/lib/site_perl/5.8.6 /usr/local/perl5.8.6/lib/site_perl /ublocal/lib/perl .) at /bin/kstat line 15.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /bin/kstat line 15.
I think I need to install these modules:
use Sun::Solaris::Utils qw(textdomain gettext gmatch);
use Sun::Solaris::Kstat;
Could somebody tell me how to do this? I cannot find them on CPAN.
Thanks,
-Andy Benson
Universtiy at Buffalo

Answer 1

Don't know the legality of this -- but you could in
theory download the source from
"http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/xref/on/usr/src/cmd
/perl/contrib/Sun/Solaris/" and then compile/build
the modules yourself.
You might need to compile your own perl distro with
Sun's C/C++ compiler (download Sun Studio from Sun)
and then compile (where applicable) the Sun::Solaris
suite for your modified perl distro. Also, I think
there's an option to use a Perl-GCC module if your
perl is gcc-compiled.
You can tell by running "perl -V".Perl was compiled from source using Sun's C/C++ compiler.
I downloaded the Sun/Solaris/Utils module and it compiled and installed without a problem using the Sun compiler. When I try to build the Sun/Solaris/Kstat module, it fails with the error:
"/usr/platform/sun4u/include/sys/fhc.h", line 699: syntax error before or at: dnode_t
"/usr/platform/sun4u/include/sys/fhc.h", line 699: cannot recover from previous errors
cc: acomp failed for Kstat.c
make: *** [Kstat.o] Error 2
The error is not descriptive enough for me to diagnose and I can't seem to find anything about this other than the following bug:
http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do;jsessionid=9786851f60b567eb1318a9ed14f:oZFF?bug_id=6324237
Is there anything I can do to get this to compile?
Thanks,
-Andy