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<title>Perl-&perl-version;</title>
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<primary sortas="a-Perl">Perl</primary>
<secondary>tools</secondary></indexterm>

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<segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
<seglistitem><seg>0.8 SBU</seg><seg>74 MB</seg></seglistitem>
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<sect2 role="installation">
<title>Installation of Perl</title>

<para>First adapt some hard-wired paths to the C library by applying
the following patch:</para>

<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../perl-&perl-version;-libc-1.patch</userinput></screen>

<para>Now prepare Perl for compilation (make sure to get the 'IO Fcntl POSIX'
part of the command correct&mdash;they are all letters):</para>

<screen><userinput>./configure.gnu --prefix=/tools -Dstatic_ext='IO Fcntl POSIX'</userinput></screen>

<para>The meaning of the configure option:</para>

<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><parameter>-Dstatic_ext='IO Fcntl POSIX'</parameter></term>
<listitem><para>This tells Perl to build the minimum set of static
extensions needed for installing and testing the Coreutils package in
the next chapter.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>

<para>Compile only the required tools:</para>

<screen><userinput>make perl utilities</userinput></screen>

<para>Although Perl comes with a test suite, it is not recommended to
run it at this point. Only part of Perl was built and running
<userinput>make test</userinput> now will cause the rest of Perl to be
built as well, which is unnecessary at this point. The test suite can
be run in the next chapter if desired.</para>

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<para>Copy these tools and their libraries:</para>

<screen><userinput>cp perl pod/pod2man /tools/bin
mkdir -p /tools/lib/perl5/&perl-version;
cp -R lib/* /tools/lib/perl5/&perl-version;</userinput></screen>

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<sect2 role="content"><title/>
<para>Details on this package are located in <xref
linkend="contents-perl" role="."/></para>
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