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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd" [
3 <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
4 %general-entities;
5]>
6<sect1 id="ch-tools-perl" role="wrap">
7<title>Perl-&perl-version;</title>
8<?dbhtml filename="perl.html"?>
9
10<indexterm zone="ch-tools-perl">
11<primary sortas="a-Perl">Perl</primary>
12<secondary>tools</secondary></indexterm>
13
14<sect2 role="package"><title/>
15<xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="../chapter06/perl.xml" xpointer="xpointer(/sect1/sect2[1]/para[1])"/>
16
17<segmentedlist>
18<segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
19<segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
20<seglistitem><seg>0.8 SBU</seg><seg>74 MB</seg></seglistitem>
21</segmentedlist>
22
23<xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="../chapter06/perl.xml" xpointer="xpointer(/sect1/sect2[1]/segmentedlist[2])"/>
24
25</sect2>
26
27<sect2 role="installation">
28<title>Installation of Perl</title>
29
30<para>First adapt some hard-wired paths to the C library by applying
31the following patch:</para>
32
33<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../perl-&perl-version;-libc-1.patch</userinput></screen>
34
35<para>Prepare Perl for compilation (make sure to get the 'IO Fcntl POSIX'
36part of the command correct&mdash;they are all letters):</para>
37
38<screen><userinput>./configure.gnu --prefix=/tools -Dstatic_ext='IO Fcntl POSIX'</userinput></screen>
39
40<para>The meaning of the configure option:</para>
41
42<variablelist>
43<varlistentry>
44<term><parameter>-Dstatic_ext='IO Fcntl POSIX'</parameter></term>
45<listitem><para>This tells Perl to build the minimum set of static
46extensions needed for installing and testing the Coreutils package in
47the next chapter.</para></listitem>
48</varlistentry>
49</variablelist>
50
51<para>Compile only the required tools:</para>
52
53<screen><userinput>make perl utilities</userinput></screen>
54
55<para>Although Perl comes with a test suite, it is not recommended to
56run it at this point. Only part of Perl was built and running
57<userinput>make test</userinput> now will cause the rest of Perl to be
58built as well, which is unnecessary at this point. The test suite can
59be run in the next chapter if desired.</para>
60
61<para>Copy these tools and their libraries:</para>
62
63<screen><userinput>cp perl pod/pod2man /tools/bin
64mkdir -p /tools/lib/perl5/&perl-version;
65cp -R lib/* /tools/lib/perl5/&perl-version;</userinput></screen>
66
67</sect2>
68
69<sect2 role="content"><title/>
70<para>Details on this package are located in <xref
71linkend="contents-perl" role="."/></para>
72</sect2>
73
74</sect1>
75
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