Solaris testing procedure

Recording the steps taken for testing on Solaris:

Set up VM

# using a Vagrant box from <http://www.vagrantbox.es/>
vagrant  box add solaris-11.2 http://www.benden.us/vagrant/solaris-11.2.box
vagrant init solaris-11.2
vagrant up
vagrant ssh

Download SolarisStudio 12.3 from here. You will need to create an Oracle account.

Prepare PDL build

cd /vagrant
tar xvjf SolarisStudio12.3-solaris-x86-bin.tar.bz2
echo 'export PATH=/vagrant/SolarisStudio12.3-solaris-x86-bin/solarisstudio12.3/bin:$PATH;' >> ~/.bashrc
echo 'export MANPATH=/vagrant/SolarisStudio12.3-solaris-x86-bin/solarisstudio12.3/man:$MANPATH;' >> ~/.bashrc
. ~/.bashrc

sudo perl -MCPAN -eshell
> install App::cpanminus

echo 'export PATH=/usr/perl5/5.12/bin::$PATH;' >> ~/.bashrc
echo 'export MANPATH=/usr/perl5/5.12/man:$MANPATH;' >> ~/.bashrc
. ~/.bashrc


git clone https://github.com/PDLPorters/pdl.git
cd pdl

sudo cpanm Devel::CheckLib
sudo cpanm --installdeps .

\curl -L http://install.perlbrew.pl | bash
echo "source ~/perl5/perlbrew/etc/bashrc" >> ~/.bashrc
. ~/.bashrc