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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
4 <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
5 %general-entities;
6]>
7
8<sect1 id="ch-system-perl" role="wrap">
9 <?dbhtml filename="perl.html"?>
10
11 <sect1info condition="script">
12 <productname>perl</productname>
13 <productnumber>&perl-version;</productnumber>
14 <address>&perl-url;</address>
15 </sect1info>
16
17 <title>Perl-&perl-version;</title>
18
19 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl">
20 <primary sortas="a-Perl">Perl</primary>
21 </indexterm>
22
23 <sect2 role="package">
24 <title/>
25
26 <para>The Perl package contains the Practical Extraction and Report
27 Language.</para>
28
29 <segmentedlist>
30 <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
31 <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
32
33 <seglistitem>
34 <seg>&perl-ch6-sbu;</seg>
35 <seg>&perl-ch6-du;</seg>
36 </seglistitem>
37 </segmentedlist>
38
39 </sect2>
40
41 <sect2 role="installation">
42 <title>Installation of Perl</title>
43
44 <para>First create a basic <filename>/etc/hosts</filename> file to be
45 referenced in one of Perl's configuration files as well as the optional
46 test suite:</para>
47
48<screen><userinput remap="pre">echo "127.0.0.1 localhost $(hostname)" &gt; /etc/hosts</userinput></screen>
49
50 <para>This version of Perl now builds the Compress::Raw::Zlib and
51 Compress::Raw::BZip2 modules. By
52 default Perl will use an internal copy of the sources for the build.
53 Issue the following command so that Perl will use the libraries
54 installed on the system:</para>
55
56<screen><userinput remap="pre">export BUILD_ZLIB=False
57export BUILD_BZIP2=0</userinput></screen>
58<!--
59 <para>Apply a patch to allow the Errno.pm module and the h2ph
60 program to build correctly when building with GCC 5:</para>
61
62<screen><userinput remap="pre">patch -Np1 -i ../&perl-gcc5-fixes-patch;</userinput></screen>
63-->
64 <para>To have full control over the way Perl is set up, you can remove the
65 <quote>-des</quote> options from the following command and hand-pick the way
66 this package is built. Alternatively, use the command exactly as below to
67 use the defaults that Perl auto-detects:</para>
68
69<screen><userinput remap="configure">sh Configure -des -Dprefix=/usr \
70 -Dvendorprefix=/usr \
71 -Dman1dir=/usr/share/man/man1 \
72 -Dman3dir=/usr/share/man/man3 \
73 -Dpager="/usr/bin/less -isR" \
74 -Duseshrplib</userinput></screen>
75
76 <variablelist>
77 <title>The meaning of the configure options:</title>
78
79 <varlistentry>
80 <term><parameter>-Dvendorprefix=/usr</parameter></term>
81 <listitem>
82 <para>This ensures <command>perl</command> knows how to
83 tell packages where they should install their perl modules.</para>
84 </listitem>
85 </varlistentry>
86
87 <varlistentry>
88 <term><parameter>-Dpager="/usr/bin/less -isR"</parameter></term>
89 <listitem>
90 <para>This ensures that <userinput>less</userinput> is used instead
91 of <userinput>more</userinput>.</para>
92 </listitem>
93 </varlistentry>
94
95 <varlistentry>
96 <term><parameter>-Dman1dir=/usr/share/man/man1
97 -Dman3dir=/usr/share/man/man3</parameter></term>
98 <listitem>
99 <para>Since Groff is not installed yet, <command>Configure</command>
100 thinks that we do not want man pages for Perl. Issuing these
101 parameters overrides this decision.</para>
102 </listitem>
103 </varlistentry>
104
105 <varlistentry>
106 <term><parameter>-Duseshrplib</parameter></term>
107 <listitem>
108 <para>Build a shared libperl needed by some perl modules.</para>
109 </listitem>
110 </varlistentry>
111
112 </variablelist>
113
114 <para>Compile the package:</para>
115
116<screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
117
118 <para>To test the results (approximately 2.5 SBU), issue:</para>
119
120<screen><userinput remap="test">make -k test</userinput></screen>
121
122 <para>Install the package and clean up:</para>
123
124<screen><userinput remap="install">make install
125unset BUILD_ZLIB BUILD_BZIP2</userinput></screen>
126
127 </sect2>
128
129 <sect2 id="contents-perl" role="content">
130 <title>Contents of Perl</title>
131
132 <segmentedlist>
133 <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
134 <segtitle>Installed libraries</segtitle>
135 <segtitle>Installed directory</segtitle>
136
137 <seglistitem>
138 <seg>c2ph, corelist, cpan, enc2xs, encguess, h2ph, h2xs, instmodsh,
139 json_pp, libnetcfg, perl, perl&perl-version; (hard link to perl),
140 perlbug, perldoc, perlivp, perlthanks (hard link to perlbug), piconv,
141 pl2pm, pod2html, pod2man, pod2text, pod2usage, podchecker, podselect,
142 prove, pstruct (hard link to c2ph), ptar, ptardiff, ptargrep, shasum,
143 splain, xsubpp, and zipdetails</seg>
144 <seg>Many which cannot all be listed here</seg>
145 <seg>/usr/lib/perl5</seg>
146 </seglistitem>
147 </segmentedlist>
148
149 <variablelist>
150 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
151 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
152 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
153
154 <varlistentry id="a2p">
155 <term><command>a2p</command></term>
156 <listitem>
157 <para>Translates awk to Perl</para>
158 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl a2p">
159 <primary sortas="b-a2p">a2p</primary>
160 </indexterm>
161 </listitem>
162 </varlistentry>
163
164 <varlistentry id="c2ph">
165 <term><command>c2ph</command></term>
166 <listitem>
167 <para>Dumps C structures as generated from
168 <command>cc -g -S</command></para>
169 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl c2ph">
170 <primary sortas="b-c2ph">c2ph</primary>
171 </indexterm>
172 </listitem>
173 </varlistentry>
174
175 <varlistentry id="corelist">
176 <term><command>corelist</command></term>
177 <listitem>
178 <para>A commandline frontend to Module::CoreList</para>
179 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl corelist">
180 <primary sortas="b-corelist">corelist</primary>
181 </indexterm>
182 </listitem>
183 </varlistentry>
184
185 <varlistentry id="cpan">
186 <term><command>cpan</command></term>
187 <listitem>
188 <para>Interact with the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN)
189 from the command line</para>
190 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl cpan">
191 <primary sortas="b-cpan">cpan</primary>
192 </indexterm>
193 </listitem>
194 </varlistentry>
195
196 <varlistentry id="cpan2dist">
197 <term><command>cpan2dist</command></term>
198 <listitem>
199 <para>The CPANPLUS distribution creator</para>
200 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl cpan2dist">
201 <primary sortas="b-cpan2dist">cpan2dist</primary>
202 </indexterm>
203 </listitem>
204 </varlistentry>
205
206 <varlistentry id="cpanp">
207 <term><command>cpanp</command></term>
208 <listitem>
209 <para>The CPANPLUS launcher</para>
210 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl cpanp">
211 <primary sortas="b-cpanp">cpanp</primary>
212 </indexterm>
213 </listitem>
214 </varlistentry>
215
216 <varlistentry id="cpanp-run-perl">
217 <term><command>cpanp-run-perl</command></term>
218 <listitem>
219 <para>Perl script that is used to enable flushing of the output
220 buffer after each write in spawned processes</para>
221 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl cpanp-run-perl">
222 <primary sortas="b-cpanp-run-perl">cpanp-run-perl</primary>
223 </indexterm>
224 </listitem>
225 </varlistentry>
226
227 <varlistentry id="enc2xs">
228 <term><command>enc2xs</command></term>
229 <listitem>
230 <para>Builds a Perl extension for the Encode module from either
231 Unicode Character Mappings or Tcl Encoding Files</para>
232 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl enc2xs">
233 <primary sortas="b-enc2xs">enc2xs</primary>
234 </indexterm>
235 </listitem>
236 </varlistentry>
237
238 <varlistentry id="encguess">
239 <term><command>encguess</command></term>
240 <listitem>
241 <para>Guess the encoding type of one or several files</para>
242 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl encguess">
243 <primary sortas="b-encguess">encguess</primary>
244 </indexterm>
245 </listitem>
246 </varlistentry>
247
248 <varlistentry id="find2perl">
249 <term><command>find2perl</command></term>
250 <listitem>
251 <para>Translates <command>find</command> commands to Perl</para>
252 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl find2perl">
253 <primary sortas="b-find2perl">find2perl</primary>
254 </indexterm>
255 </listitem>
256 </varlistentry>
257
258 <varlistentry id="h2ph">
259 <term><command>h2ph</command></term>
260 <listitem>
261 <para>Converts <filename class="extension">.h</filename> C header
262 files to <filename class="extension">.ph</filename> Perl header
263 files</para>
264 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl h2ph">
265 <primary sortas="b-h2ph">h2ph</primary>
266 </indexterm>
267 </listitem>
268 </varlistentry>
269
270 <varlistentry id="h2xs">
271 <term><command>h2xs</command></term>
272 <listitem>
273 <para>Converts <filename class="extension">.h</filename> C header
274 files to Perl extensions</para>
275 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl h2xs">
276 <primary sortas="b-h2xs">h2xs</primary>
277 </indexterm>
278 </listitem>
279 </varlistentry>
280
281 <varlistentry id="instmodsh">
282 <term><command>instmodsh</command></term>
283 <listitem>
284 <para>Shell script for examining installed Perl modules,
285 and can even create a tarball from an installed module</para>
286 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl instmodsh">
287 <primary sortas="b-instmodsh">instmodsh</primary>
288 </indexterm>
289 </listitem>
290 </varlistentry>
291
292 <varlistentry id="json_pp">
293 <term><command>json_pp</command></term>
294 <listitem>
295 <para>Converts data between certain input and output formats</para>
296 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl json_pp">
297 <primary sortas="b-json_pp">json_pp</primary>
298 </indexterm>
299 </listitem>
300 </varlistentry>
301
302 <varlistentry id="libnetcfg">
303 <term><command>libnetcfg</command></term>
304 <listitem>
305 <para>Can be used to configure the
306 <filename class="libraryfile">libnet</filename> Perl module</para>
307 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl libnetcfg">
308 <primary sortas="b-libnetcfg">libnetcfg</primary>
309 </indexterm>
310 </listitem>
311 </varlistentry>
312
313 <varlistentry id="perl">
314 <term><command>perl</command></term>
315 <listitem>
316 <para>Combines some of the best features of C, <command>sed</command>,
317 <command>awk</command> and <command>sh</command> into a single
318 swiss-army language</para>
319 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perl">
320 <primary sortas="b-perl">perl</primary>
321 </indexterm>
322 </listitem>
323 </varlistentry>
324
325 <varlistentry id="perl-version">
326 <term><command>perl&perl-version;</command></term>
327 <listitem>
328 <para>A hard link to <command>perl</command></para>
329 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perl-version">
330 <primary sortas="b-perl&perl-version;">perl&perl-version;</primary>
331 </indexterm>
332 </listitem>
333 </varlistentry>
334
335 <varlistentry id="perlbug">
336 <term><command>perlbug</command></term>
337 <listitem>
338 <para>Used to generate bug reports about Perl, or the modules that come
339 with it, and mail them</para>
340 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perlbug">
341 <primary sortas="b-perlbug">perlbug</primary>
342 </indexterm>
343 </listitem>
344 </varlistentry>
345
346 <varlistentry id="perldoc">
347 <term><command>perldoc</command></term>
348 <listitem>
349 <para>Displays a piece of documentation in pod format that is embedded
350 in the Perl installation tree or in a Perl script</para>
351 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perldoc">
352 <primary sortas="b-perldoc">perldoc</primary>
353 </indexterm>
354 </listitem>
355 </varlistentry>
356
357 <varlistentry id="perlivp">
358 <term><command>perlivp</command></term>
359 <listitem>
360 <para>The Perl Installation Verification Procedure; it can be used to
361 verify that Perl and its libraries have been installed
362 correctly</para>
363 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perlivp">
364 <primary sortas="b-perlivp">perlivp</primary>
365 </indexterm>
366 </listitem>
367 </varlistentry>
368
369 <varlistentry id="perlthanks">
370 <term><command>perlthanks</command></term>
371 <listitem>
372 <para>Used to generate thank you messages to mail to the Perl
373 developers</para>
374 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perlthanks">
375 <primary sortas="b-perlthanks">perlthanks</primary>
376 </indexterm>
377 </listitem>
378 </varlistentry>
379
380 <varlistentry id="piconv">
381 <term><command>piconv</command></term>
382 <listitem>
383 <para>A Perl version of the character encoding converter
384 <command>iconv</command></para>
385 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl piconv">
386 <primary sortas="b-piconv">piconv</primary>
387 </indexterm>
388 </listitem>
389 </varlistentry>
390
391 <varlistentry id="pl2pm">
392 <term><command>pl2pm</command></term>
393 <listitem>
394 <para>A rough tool for converting Perl4
395 <filename class="extension">.pl</filename> files to Perl5
396 <filename class="extension">.pm</filename> modules</para>
397 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pl2pm">
398 <primary sortas="b-pl2pm">pl2pm</primary>
399 </indexterm>
400 </listitem>
401 </varlistentry>
402
403 <varlistentry id="pod2html">
404 <term><command>pod2html</command></term>
405 <listitem>
406 <para>Converts files from pod format to HTML format</para>
407 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pod2html">
408 <primary sortas="b-pod2html">pod2html</primary>
409 </indexterm>
410 </listitem>
411 </varlistentry>
412
413 <varlistentry id="pod2latex">
414 <term><command>pod2latex</command></term>
415 <listitem>
416 <para>Converts files from pod format to LaTeX format</para>
417 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pod2latex">
418 <primary sortas="b-pod2latex">pod2latex</primary>
419 </indexterm>
420 </listitem>
421 </varlistentry>
422
423 <varlistentry id="pod2man">
424 <term><command>pod2man</command></term>
425 <listitem>
426 <para>Converts pod data to formatted *roff input</para>
427 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pod2man">
428 <primary sortas="b-pod2man">pod2man</primary>
429 </indexterm>
430 </listitem>
431 </varlistentry>
432
433 <varlistentry id="pod2text">
434 <term><command>pod2text</command></term>
435 <listitem>
436 <para>Converts pod data to formatted ASCII text</para>
437 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pod2text">
438 <primary sortas="b-pod2text">pod2text</primary>
439 </indexterm>
440 </listitem>
441 </varlistentry>
442
443 <varlistentry id="pod2usage">
444 <term><command>pod2usage</command></term>
445 <listitem>
446 <para>Prints usage messages from embedded pod docs in files</para>
447 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pod2usage">
448 <primary sortas="b-pod2usage">pod2usage</primary>
449 </indexterm>
450 </listitem>
451 </varlistentry>
452
453 <varlistentry id="podchecker">
454 <term><command>podchecker</command></term>
455 <listitem>
456 <para>Checks the syntax of pod format documentation files</para>
457 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl podchecker">
458 <primary sortas="b-podchecker">podchecker</primary>
459 </indexterm>
460 </listitem>
461 </varlistentry>
462
463 <varlistentry id="podselect">
464 <term><command>podselect</command></term>
465 <listitem>
466 <para>Displays selected sections of pod documentation</para>
467 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl podselect">
468 <primary sortas="b-podselect">podselect</primary>
469 </indexterm>
470 </listitem>
471 </varlistentry>
472
473 <varlistentry id="prove">
474 <term><command>prove</command></term>
475 <listitem>
476 <para>Command line tool for running tests against the Test::Harness
477 module</para>
478 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl prove">
479 <primary sortas="b-prove">prove</primary>
480 </indexterm>
481 </listitem>
482 </varlistentry>
483
484 <varlistentry id="pstruct">
485 <term><command>pstruct</command></term>
486 <listitem>
487 <para>Dumps C structures as generated from <command>cc -g -S</command>
488 stabs</para>
489 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pstruct">
490 <primary sortas="b-pstruct">pstruct</primary>
491 </indexterm>
492 </listitem>
493 </varlistentry>
494
495 <varlistentry id="ptar">
496 <term><command>ptar</command></term>
497 <listitem>
498 <para>A <command>tar</command>-like program written in Perl</para>
499 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl ptar">
500 <primary sortas="b-ptar">ptar</primary>
501 </indexterm>
502 </listitem>
503 </varlistentry>
504
505 <varlistentry id="ptardiff">
506 <term><command>ptardiff</command></term>
507 <listitem>
508 <para>A Perl program that compares an extracted archive with an
509 unextracted one</para>
510 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl ptardiff">
511 <primary sortas="b-ptardiff">ptardiff</primary>
512 </indexterm>
513 </listitem>
514 </varlistentry>
515
516 <varlistentry id="ptargrep">
517 <term><command>ptargrep</command></term>
518 <listitem>
519 <para>A Perl program that applies pattern matching to the contents
520 of files in a tar archive</para>
521 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl ptargrep">
522 <primary sortas="b-ptargrep">ptargrep</primary>
523 </indexterm>
524 </listitem>
525 </varlistentry>
526
527 <varlistentry id="s2p">
528 <term><command>s2p</command></term>
529 <listitem>
530 <para>Translates <command>sed</command> scripts to Perl</para>
531 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl s2p">
532 <primary sortas="b-s2p">s2p</primary>
533 </indexterm>
534 </listitem>
535 </varlistentry>
536
537 <varlistentry id="shasum">
538 <term><command>shasum</command></term>
539 <listitem>
540 <para>Prints or checks SHA checksums</para>
541 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl shasum">
542 <primary sortas="b-shasum">shasum</primary>
543 </indexterm>
544 </listitem>
545 </varlistentry>
546
547 <varlistentry id="splain">
548 <term><command>splain</command></term>
549 <listitem>
550 <para>Is used to force verbose warning diagnostics in Perl</para>
551 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl splain">
552 <primary sortas="b-splain">splain</primary>
553 </indexterm>
554 </listitem>
555 </varlistentry>
556
557 <varlistentry id="xsubpp">
558 <term><command>xsubpp</command></term>
559 <listitem>
560 <para>Converts Perl XS code into C code</para>
561 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl xsubpp">
562 <primary sortas="b-xsubpp">xsubpp</primary>
563 </indexterm>
564 </listitem>
565 </varlistentry>
566
567 <varlistentry id="zipdetails">
568 <term><command>zipdetails</command></term>
569 <listitem>
570 <para>Displays details about the internal structure of a Zip file</para>
571 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl zipdetails">
572 <primary sortas="b-zipdetails">zipdetails</primary>
573 </indexterm>
574 </listitem>
575 </varlistentry>
576
577 </variablelist>
578
579 </sect2>
580
581</sect1>
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