> Following an attempt to run the satan_doc perl script on > a Solaris 2.3 platform, the reconfig and make appear to > run ok, but on executing satan, I get the following error > > cannot get SOCK_STREAM from sys/socket.ph or > /usr/include/sys/socket.h at socket.pl line 23. > > Has anyone else run into similar problems with perl5 > on Solaris, and if so could someone enlighten me with > the necessary patch ? > > TIA > petev > > > > ----- End Included Message ----- > > Yep, I had this problem. Eventually I gave up on socket.h. Wrote my own header based on some site specific stuff. Basically SOCK_STREAM = 1 for Sunos4 and 2 for Sunos5. Whichever genius decided to change this wants binding to a very lonely address. SOCK_STREAM and other such constants ;-0 are hard coded into lots of things like chat2.pl anf ftp.pl. ugly Jeremy.Foot@sbil.co.uk