[5888299] | 1 | <sect1 id="ch06-perl" xreflabel="Perl">
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[793c2f7] | 2 | <title>Installing Perl-&perl-version;</title>
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[576e206] | 3 | <?dbhtml filename="perl.html" dir="chapter06"?>
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[6370fa6] | 4 |
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[5888299] | 5 | <para>The Perl package contains the Practical Extraction and Report Language.</para>
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| 6 |
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[b822811] | 7 | <screen>Estimated build time: &perl-time;
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[6403026] | 8 | Estimated required disk space: &perl-compsize;</screen>
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[3554fa3a] | 9 |
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[5888299] | 10 | <literallayout>Official download location for Perl (&perl-version;):
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| 11 | <ulink url="http://www.perl.com/"/></literallayout>
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| 12 |
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[d0dfce4] | 13 | &aa-perl-dep;
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[73aedd1d] | 14 |
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| 15 | <sect2><title> </title><para> </para></sect2>
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| 16 |
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| 17 | <sect2>
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| 18 | <title>Installation of Perl</title>
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| 19 |
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| 20 | <para>Prepare Perl for compilation:</para>
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| 21 |
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[5a4b3da] | 22 | <screen><userinput>./configure.gnu --prefix=/usr -Dpager="/bin/less -isR"</userinput></screen>
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[73aedd1d] | 23 |
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| 24 | <para>If you want more control over the way Perl sets itself up to be
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| 25 | built, you can run the interactive <userinput>Configure</userinput> script
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| 26 | instead and modify the way Perl is built. If you think you can live with the
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| 27 | (sensible) defaults Perl auto-detects, then just use the command listed
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| 28 | above.</para>
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| 29 |
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[bcd0ce7] | 30 | <para>The meaning of the configure option:</para>
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[05073f6] | 31 |
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| 32 | <itemizedlist>
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| 33 | <listitem><para><userinput>-Dpager="/bin/less -isR"</userinput>: This corrects
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[bcd0ce7] | 34 | an error in the perldoc code with the invocation of the less
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| 35 | program.</para></listitem>
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[05073f6] | 36 | </itemizedlist>
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[5a4b3da] | 37 |
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[73aedd1d] | 38 | <para>Compile the package:</para>
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| 39 |
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| 40 | <screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
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| 41 |
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| 42 | <para>This package has a test suite available which can perform a number of
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| 43 | checks to ensure it built correctly. Should you choose to run it, you first
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| 44 | have to create a basic <filename>/etc/hosts</filename> file, needed by a
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| 45 | couple of tests to resolve the name <emphasis>localhost</emphasis>:</para>
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| 46 |
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| 47 | <screen><userinput>echo "127.0.0.1 localhost $(hostname)" > /etc/hosts</userinput></screen>
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| 48 |
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| 49 | <para>Now run the tests, if you wish:</para>
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| 50 |
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| 51 | <screen><userinput>make test</userinput></screen>
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| 52 |
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| 53 | <para>And install the package:</para>
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| 54 |
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| 55 | <screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
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| 56 |
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| 57 | </sect2>
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[6370fa6] | 58 |
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[5888299] | 59 | &aa-perl-shortdesc;
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| 60 | &aa-perl-desc;
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| 61 |
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[6370fa6] | 62 | </sect1>
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