%general-entities; ]> First adapt some hard-wired paths to the C library: patch -Np1 -i ../perl-&perl-version;-libc-1.patch Now prepare Perl for compilation: ./configure.gnu --prefix=/tools -Dstatic_ext='IO Fcntl POSIX' Compile only the required tools: make perl utilities Then copy these tools and their libraries: cp perl pod/pod2man /tools/bin mkdir -p /tools/lib/perl5/&perl-version; cp -R lib/* /tools/lib/perl5/&perl-version;