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Update list of installed files in a number of packages. Fixes #2979.

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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>Apply a patch to fix a security vulnerability in Perl:</para>
51
52<screen><userinput remap="pre">patch -Np1 -i ../&perl-security-patch;</userinput></screen>
53
54 <para>This version of Perl now builds the Compress::Raw::Zlib module. By
55 default Perl will use an internal copy of the Zlib source for the build.
56 Issue the following command so that Perl will use the Zlib library
57 installed on the system:</para>
58
59<screen><userinput remap="pre">sed -i -e "s|BUILD_ZLIB\s*= True|BUILD_ZLIB = False|" \
60 -e "s|INCLUDE\s*= ./zlib-src|INCLUDE = /usr/include|" \
61 -e "s|LIB\s*= ./zlib-src|LIB = /usr/lib|" \
62 cpan/Compress-Raw-Zlib/config.in</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 corrects an error in the way that <command>perldoc</command>
91 invokes the <command>less</command> program.</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 test</userinput></screen>
121
122 <para>Install the package:</para>
123
124<screen><userinput remap="install">make install</userinput></screen>
125
126 </sect2>
127
128 <sect2 id="contents-perl" role="content">
129 <title>Contents of Perl</title>
130
131 <segmentedlist>
132 <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
133 <segtitle>Installed libraries</segtitle>
134 <segtitle>Installed directory</segtitle>
135
136 <seglistitem>
137 <seg>a2p, c2ph, config_data, corelist, cpan, cpan2dist, cpanp,
138 cpanp-run-perl, dprofpp, enc2xs, find2perl, h2ph, h2xs,
139 instmodsh, json_pp, libnetcfg, perl, perl&perl-version; (link to perl),
140 perlbug, perldoc, perlivp, perlthanks (link to perlbug), piconv, pl2pm,
141 pod2html, pod2latex, pod2man, pod2text, pod2usage, podchecker,
142 podselect, prove, psed (link to s2p), pstruct (link to c2ph), ptar,
143 ptardiff, ptargrep, s2p, shasum, splain, and xsubpp</seg>
144 <seg>Several hundred 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="config_data">
176 <term><command>config_data</command></term>
177 <listitem>
178 <para>Queries or changes configuration of Perl modules</para>
179 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl config_data">
180 <primary sortas="b-config_data">config_data</primary>
181 </indexterm>
182 </listitem>
183 </varlistentry>
184
185 <varlistentry id="corelist">
186 <term><command>corelist</command></term>
187 <listitem>
188 <para>A commandline frontend to Module::CoreList</para>
189 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl corelist">
190 <primary sortas="b-corelist">corelist</primary>
191 </indexterm>
192 </listitem>
193 </varlistentry>
194
195 <varlistentry id="cpan">
196 <term><command>cpan</command></term>
197 <listitem>
198 <para>Interact with the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN)
199 from the command line</para>
200 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl cpan">
201 <primary sortas="b-cpan">cpan</primary>
202 </indexterm>
203 </listitem>
204 </varlistentry>
205
206 <varlistentry id="cpan2dist">
207 <term><command>cpan2dist</command></term>
208 <listitem>
209 <para>The CPANPLUS distribution creator</para>
210 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl cpan2dist">
211 <primary sortas="b-cpan2dist">cpan2dist</primary>
212 </indexterm>
213 </listitem>
214 </varlistentry>
215
216 <varlistentry id="cpanp">
217 <term><command>cpanp</command></term>
218 <listitem>
219 <para>The CPANPLUS launcher</para>
220 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl cpanp">
221 <primary sortas="b-cpanp">cpanp</primary>
222 </indexterm>
223 </listitem>
224 </varlistentry>
225
226 <varlistentry id="cpanp-run-perl">
227 <term><command>cpanp-run-perl</command></term>
228 <listitem>
229 <para>Perl script that is used to enable flushing of the output
230 buffer after each write in spawned processes</para>
231 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl cpanp-run-perl">
232 <primary sortas="b-cpanp-run-perl">cpanp-run-perl</primary>
233 </indexterm>
234 </listitem>
235 </varlistentry>
236
237 <varlistentry id="dprofpp">
238 <term><command>dprofpp</command></term>
239 <listitem>
240 <para>Displays Perl profile data</para>
241 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl dprofpp">
242 <primary sortas="b-dprofpp">dprofpp</primary>
243 </indexterm>
244 </listitem>
245 </varlistentry>
246
247 <varlistentry id="enc2xs">
248 <term><command>enc2xs</command></term>
249 <listitem>
250 <para>Builds a Perl extension for the Encode module from either
251 Unicode Character Mappings or Tcl Encoding Files</para>
252 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl enc2xs">
253 <primary sortas="b-enc2xs">enc2xs</primary>
254 </indexterm>
255 </listitem>
256 </varlistentry>
257
258 <varlistentry id="find2perl">
259 <term><command>find2perl</command></term>
260 <listitem>
261 <para>Translates <command>find</command> commands to Perl</para>
262 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl find2perl">
263 <primary sortas="b-find2perl">find2perl</primary>
264 </indexterm>
265 </listitem>
266 </varlistentry>
267
268 <varlistentry id="h2ph">
269 <term><command>h2ph</command></term>
270 <listitem>
271 <para>Converts <filename class="extension">.h</filename> C header
272 files to <filename class="extension">.ph</filename> Perl header
273 files</para>
274 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl h2ph">
275 <primary sortas="b-h2ph">h2ph</primary>
276 </indexterm>
277 </listitem>
278 </varlistentry>
279
280 <varlistentry id="h2xs">
281 <term><command>h2xs</command></term>
282 <listitem>
283 <para>Converts <filename class="extension">.h</filename> C header
284 files to Perl extensions</para>
285 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl h2xs">
286 <primary sortas="b-h2xs">h2xs</primary>
287 </indexterm>
288 </listitem>
289 </varlistentry>
290
291 <varlistentry id="instmodsh">
292 <term><command>instmodsh</command></term>
293 <listitem>
294 <para>Shell script for examining installed Perl modules,
295 and can even create a tarball from an installed module</para>
296 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl instmodsh">
297 <primary sortas="b-instmodsh">instmodsh</primary>
298 </indexterm>
299 </listitem>
300 </varlistentry>
301
302 <varlistentry id="json_pp">
303 <term><command>json_pp</command></term>
304 <listitem>
305 <para>Converts data between certain input and output formats</para>
306 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl json_pp">
307 <primary sortas="b-json_pp">json_pp</primary>
308 </indexterm>
309 </listitem>
310 </varlistentry>
311
312 <varlistentry id="libnetcfg">
313 <term><command>libnetcfg</command></term>
314 <listitem>
315 <para>Can be used to configure the
316 <filename class="libraryfile">libnet</filename> Perl module</para>
317 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl libnetcfg">
318 <primary sortas="b-libnetcfg">libnetcfg</primary>
319 </indexterm>
320 </listitem>
321 </varlistentry>
322
323 <varlistentry id="perl">
324 <term><command>perl</command></term>
325 <listitem>
326 <para>Combines some of the best features of C, <command>sed</command>,
327 <command>awk</command> and <command>sh</command> into a single
328 swiss-army language</para>
329 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perl">
330 <primary sortas="b-perl">perl</primary>
331 </indexterm>
332 </listitem>
333 </varlistentry>
334
335 <varlistentry id="perl-version">
336 <term><command>perl&perl-version;</command></term>
337 <listitem>
338 <para>A hard link to <command>perl</command></para>
339 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perl-version">
340 <primary sortas="b-perl&perl-version;">perl&perl-version;</primary>
341 </indexterm>
342 </listitem>
343 </varlistentry>
344
345 <varlistentry id="perlbug">
346 <term><command>perlbug</command></term>
347 <listitem>
348 <para>Used to generate bug reports about Perl, or the modules that come
349 with it, and mail them</para>
350 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perlbug">
351 <primary sortas="b-perlbug">perlbug</primary>
352 </indexterm>
353 </listitem>
354 </varlistentry>
355
356 <varlistentry id="perldoc">
357 <term><command>perldoc</command></term>
358 <listitem>
359 <para>Displays a piece of documentation in pod format that is embedded
360 in the Perl installation tree or in a Perl script</para>
361 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perldoc">
362 <primary sortas="b-perldoc">perldoc</primary>
363 </indexterm>
364 </listitem>
365 </varlistentry>
366
367 <varlistentry id="perlivp">
368 <term><command>perlivp</command></term>
369 <listitem>
370 <para>The Perl Installation Verification Procedure; it can be used to
371 verify that Perl and its libraries have been installed
372 correctly</para>
373 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perlivp">
374 <primary sortas="b-perlivp">perlivp</primary>
375 </indexterm>
376 </listitem>
377 </varlistentry>
378
379 <varlistentry id="perlthanks">
380 <term><command>perlthanks</command></term>
381 <listitem>
382 <para>Used to generate thank you messages to mail to the Perl
383 developers</para>
384 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perlthanks">
385 <primary sortas="b-perlthanks">perlthanks</primary>
386 </indexterm>
387 </listitem>
388 </varlistentry>
389
390 <varlistentry id="piconv">
391 <term><command>piconv</command></term>
392 <listitem>
393 <para>A Perl version of the character encoding converter
394 <command>iconv</command></para>
395 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl piconv">
396 <primary sortas="b-piconv">piconv</primary>
397 </indexterm>
398 </listitem>
399 </varlistentry>
400
401 <varlistentry id="pl2pm">
402 <term><command>pl2pm</command></term>
403 <listitem>
404 <para>A rough tool for converting Perl4
405 <filename class="extension">.pl</filename> files to Perl5
406 <filename class="extension">.pm</filename> modules</para>
407 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pl2pm">
408 <primary sortas="b-pl2pm">pl2pm</primary>
409 </indexterm>
410 </listitem>
411 </varlistentry>
412
413 <varlistentry id="pod2html">
414 <term><command>pod2html</command></term>
415 <listitem>
416 <para>Converts files from pod format to HTML format</para>
417 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pod2html">
418 <primary sortas="b-pod2html">pod2html</primary>
419 </indexterm>
420 </listitem>
421 </varlistentry>
422
423 <varlistentry id="pod2latex">
424 <term><command>pod2latex</command></term>
425 <listitem>
426 <para>Converts files from pod format to LaTeX format</para>
427 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pod2latex">
428 <primary sortas="b-pod2latex">pod2latex</primary>
429 </indexterm>
430 </listitem>
431 </varlistentry>
432
433 <varlistentry id="pod2man">
434 <term><command>pod2man</command></term>
435 <listitem>
436 <para>Converts pod data to formatted *roff input</para>
437 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pod2man">
438 <primary sortas="b-pod2man">pod2man</primary>
439 </indexterm>
440 </listitem>
441 </varlistentry>
442
443 <varlistentry id="pod2text">
444 <term><command>pod2text</command></term>
445 <listitem>
446 <para>Converts pod data to formatted ASCII text</para>
447 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pod2text">
448 <primary sortas="b-pod2text">pod2text</primary>
449 </indexterm>
450 </listitem>
451 </varlistentry>
452
453 <varlistentry id="pod2usage">
454 <term><command>pod2usage</command></term>
455 <listitem>
456 <para>Prints usage messages from embedded pod docs in files</para>
457 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pod2usage">
458 <primary sortas="b-pod2usage">pod2usage</primary>
459 </indexterm>
460 </listitem>
461 </varlistentry>
462
463 <varlistentry id="podchecker">
464 <term><command>podchecker</command></term>
465 <listitem>
466 <para>Checks the syntax of pod format documentation files</para>
467 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl podchecker">
468 <primary sortas="b-podchecker">podchecker</primary>
469 </indexterm>
470 </listitem>
471 </varlistentry>
472
473 <varlistentry id="podselect">
474 <term><command>podselect</command></term>
475 <listitem>
476 <para>Displays selected sections of pod documentation</para>
477 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl podselect">
478 <primary sortas="b-podselect">podselect</primary>
479 </indexterm>
480 </listitem>
481 </varlistentry>
482
483 <varlistentry id="prove">
484 <term><command>prove</command></term>
485 <listitem>
486 <para>Command line tool for running tests against the Test::Harness
487 module.</para>
488 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl prove">
489 <primary sortas="b-prove">prove</primary>
490 </indexterm>
491 </listitem>
492 </varlistentry>
493
494 <varlistentry id="psed">
495 <term><command>psed</command></term>
496 <listitem>
497 <para>A Perl version of the stream editor <command>sed</command></para>
498 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl psed">
499 <primary sortas="b-psed">psed</primary>
500 </indexterm>
501 </listitem>
502 </varlistentry>
503
504 <varlistentry id="pstruct">
505 <term><command>pstruct</command></term>
506 <listitem>
507 <para>Dumps C structures as generated from <command>cc -g -S</command>
508 stabs</para>
509 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pstruct">
510 <primary sortas="b-pstruct">pstruct</primary>
511 </indexterm>
512 </listitem>
513 </varlistentry>
514
515 <varlistentry id="ptar">
516 <term><command>ptar</command></term>
517 <listitem>
518 <para>A <command>tar</command>-like program written in Perl</para>
519 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl ptar">
520 <primary sortas="b-ptar">ptar</primary>
521 </indexterm>
522 </listitem>
523 </varlistentry>
524
525 <varlistentry id="ptardiff">
526 <term><command>ptardiff</command></term>
527 <listitem>
528 <para>A Perl program that compares an extracted archive with an
529 unextracted one</para>
530 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl ptardiff">
531 <primary sortas="b-ptardiff">ptardiff</primary>
532 </indexterm>
533 </listitem>
534 </varlistentry>
535
536 <varlistentry id="ptargrep">
537 <term><command>ptargrep</command></term>
538 <listitem>
539 <para>A Perl program that applies pattern matching to the contents
540 of files in a tar archive</para>
541 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl ptargrep">
542 <primary sortas="b-ptargrep">ptargrep</primary>
543 </indexterm>
544 </listitem>
545 </varlistentry>
546
547 <varlistentry id="s2p">
548 <term><command>s2p</command></term>
549 <listitem>
550 <para>Translates <command>sed</command> scripts to Perl</para>
551 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl s2p">
552 <primary sortas="b-s2p">s2p</primary>
553 </indexterm>
554 </listitem>
555 </varlistentry>
556
557 <varlistentry id="shasum">
558 <term><command>shasum</command></term>
559 <listitem>
560 <para>Prints or checks SHA checksums</para>
561 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl shasum">
562 <primary sortas="b-shasum">shasum</primary>
563 </indexterm>
564 </listitem>
565 </varlistentry>
566
567 <varlistentry id="splain">
568 <term><command>splain</command></term>
569 <listitem>
570 <para>Is used to force verbose warning diagnostics in Perl</para>
571 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl splain">
572 <primary sortas="b-splain">splain</primary>
573 </indexterm>
574 </listitem>
575 </varlistentry>
576
577 <varlistentry id="xsubpp">
578 <term><command>xsubpp</command></term>
579 <listitem>
580 <para>Converts Perl XS code into C code</para>
581 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl xsubpp">
582 <primary sortas="b-xsubpp">xsubpp</primary>
583 </indexterm>
584 </listitem>
585 </varlistentry>
586
587 </variablelist>
588
589 </sect2>
590
591</sect1>
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