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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd" [
3 <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
4 %general-entities;
5]>
6<sect1 id="ch-tools-perl">
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<xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="../chapter06/perl.xml" xpointer="xpointer(/sect1/para[1])"/>
15
16<screen>&buildtime; 0.8 SBU
17&diskspace; 74 MB</screen>
18
19<xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="../chapter06/perl.xml" xpointer="xpointer(/sect1/para[2])"/>
20
21
22<sect2>
23<title>Installation of Perl</title>
24
25<para>First adapt some hard-wired paths to the C library:</para>
26
27<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../perl-&perl-version;-libc-1.patch</userinput></screen>
28
29<para>Perl insists on using the <command>arch</command> program to find out
30the machine type. Create a little script to mimic this command:</para>
31
32<screen><userinput>echo "uname -m" &gt; /tools/bin/arch
33chmod 755 /tools/bin/arch</userinput></screen>
34
35<para>Now prepare Perl for compilation (make sure you get the 'IO Fcntl POSIX'
36right, 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<itemizedlist>
43<listitem><para><userinput>-Dstatic_ext='IO Fcntl POSIX'</userinput>: This tells
44Perl to build the minimum set of static extensions needed for installing and
45testing the Coreutils package in the next chapter.</para></listitem>
46</itemizedlist>
47
48<para>Compile only the required tools:</para>
49
50<screen><userinput>make perl utilities</userinput></screen>
51
52<para>Then copy these tools and their libraries:</para>
53
54<screen><userinput>cp perl pod/pod2man /tools/bin
55mkdir -p /tools/lib/perl5/&perl-version;
56cp -R lib/* /tools/lib/perl5/&perl-version;</userinput></screen>
57
58</sect2>
59
60<sect2><title> </title><para> </para>
61<para>The details on this package are found in <xref linkend="contents-perl"/>.</para>
62<para> </para></sect2>
63
64</sect1>
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