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2 | <!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd" [
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3 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
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4 | %general-entities;
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5 | ]>
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6 | <sect1 id="ch-system-perl" xreflabel="Perl">
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7 | <title>Perl-&perl-version;</title>
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8 | <?dbhtml filename="perl.html"?>
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9 |
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10 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl"><primary sortas="a-Perl">Perl</primary></indexterm>
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11 |
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12 | <para>The Perl package contains the Practical Extraction and Report Language.</para>
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13 |
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14 | <screen>&buildtime; 2.9 SBU
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15 | &diskspace; 143 MB</screen>
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16 |
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17 | <para>Perl installation depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils,
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18 | Gawk, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, Sed.</para>
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19 |
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20 |
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21 |
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22 | <sect2>
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23 | <title>Installation of Perl</title>
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24 |
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25 | <para>If you want full control over the way Perl is set up, you can run the
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26 | interactive <command>Configure</command> script and hand-pick the way this
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27 | package is built. If you think you can live with the (sensible)
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28 | defaults it auto-detects, then prepare Perl for compilation with:</para>
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29 |
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30 | <screen><userinput>./configure.gnu --prefix=/usr -Dpager="/bin/less -isR"</userinput></screen>
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31 |
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32 | <para>The meaning of the configure option:</para>
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33 |
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34 | <itemizedlist>
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35 | <listitem><para><userinput>-Dpager="/bin/less -isR"</userinput>: This corrects
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36 | an error in the perldoc code with the invocation of the less
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37 | program.</para></listitem>
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38 | </itemizedlist>
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39 |
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40 | <para>Compile the package:</para>
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41 |
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42 | <screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
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43 |
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44 | <para>If you wish to run the test suite, you first have to create a basic
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45 | <filename>/etc/hosts</filename> file, which is needed by a couple of tests to
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46 | resolve the name <emphasis>localhost</emphasis>:</para>
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47 |
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48 | <screen><userinput>echo "127.0.0.1 localhost $(hostname)" > /etc/hosts</userinput></screen>
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49 |
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50 | <para>Now run the tests, if you wish:</para>
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51 |
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52 | <screen><userinput>make test</userinput></screen>
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53 |
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54 | <para>Finally, install the package:</para>
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55 |
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56 | <screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
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57 |
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58 | </sect2>
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59 |
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60 |
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61 | <sect2 id="contents-perl"><title>Contents of Perl</title>
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62 |
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63 | <para><emphasis>Installed programs</emphasis>: a2p, c2ph, dprofpp, enc2xs,
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64 | find2perl, h2ph, h2xs, libnetcfg, perl, perl&perl-version; (link to perl),
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65 | perlbug, perlcc, perldoc, perlivp, piconv, pl2pm, pod2html, pod2latex, pod2man,
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66 | pod2text, pod2usage, podchecker, podselect, psed (link to s2p), pstruct (link
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67 | to c2ph), s2p, splain and xsubpp</para>
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68 |
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69 | <para><emphasis>Installed libraries</emphasis>: (too many to name)</para>
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70 |
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71 | </sect2>
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72 |
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73 | <sect2><title>Short descriptions</title>
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74 |
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75 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl a2p"><primary sortas="b-a2p">a2p</primary></indexterm>
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76 | <para id="a2p"><command>a2p</command> translates awk to perl.</para>
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77 |
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78 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl c2ph"><primary sortas="b-c2ph">c2ph</primary></indexterm>
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79 | <para id="c2ph"><command>c2ph</command> dumps C structures as generated from
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80 | "cc -g -S" stabs.</para>
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81 |
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82 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl dprofpp"><primary sortas="b-dprofpp">dprofpp</primary></indexterm>
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83 | <para id="dprofpp"><command>dprofpp</command> displays perl profile data.</para>
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84 |
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85 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl en2cxs"><primary sortas="b-en2cxs">en2cxs</primary></indexterm>
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86 | <para id="en2cxs"><command>en2cxs</command> builds a Perl extension for the Encode module,
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87 | from either Unicode Character Mappings or Tcl Encoding Files.</para>
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88 |
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89 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl find2perl"><primary sortas="b-find2perl">find2perl</primary></indexterm>
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90 | <para id="find2perl"><command>find2perl</command> translates find commands to perl.</para>
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91 |
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92 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl h2ph"><primary sortas="b-h2ph">h2ph</primary></indexterm>
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93 | <para id="h2ph"><command>h2ph</command> converts .h C header files to .ph Perl header files.</para>
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94 |
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95 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl h2xs"><primary sortas="b-h2xs">h2xs</primary></indexterm>
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96 | <para id="h2xs"><command>h2xs</command> converts .h C header files to Perl extensions.</para>
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97 |
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98 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl libnetcfg"><primary sortas="b-libnetcfg">libnetcfg</primary></indexterm>
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99 | <para id="libnetcfg"><command>libnetcfg</command> can be used to configure the libnet.</para>
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100 |
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101 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perl"><primary sortas="b-perl">perl</primary></indexterm>
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102 | <para id="perl"><command>perl</command> combines some of the best features of C, sed,
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103 | awk and sh into a single swiss-army language.</para>
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104 |
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105 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perlbug"><primary sortas="b-perlbug">perlbug</primary></indexterm>
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106 | <para id="perlbug"><command>perlbug</command> is used to generate bug reports about
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107 | Perl or the modules that come with it, and mail them.</para>
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108 |
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109 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perlcc"><primary sortas="b-perlcc">perlcc</primary></indexterm>
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110 | <para id="perlcc"><command>perlcc</command> generates executables from Perl programs.</para>
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111 |
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112 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perldoc"><primary sortas="b-perldoc">perldoc</primary></indexterm>
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113 | <para id="perldoc"><command>perldoc</command> displays a piece of documentation in pod
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114 | format that is embedded in the perl installation tree or in a perl script.</para>
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115 |
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116 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perlivp"><primary sortas="b-perlivp">perlivp</primary></indexterm>
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117 | <para id="perlivp"><command>perlivp</command> is the Perl Installation Verification
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118 | Procedure. It can be used to verify that Perl and its libraries have been
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119 | installed correctly.</para>
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120 |
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121 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl piconv"><primary sortas="b-piconv">piconv</primary></indexterm>
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122 | <para id="piconv"><command>piconv</command> is a Perl version of the character encoding
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123 | converter <command>iconv</command>.</para>
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124 |
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125 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pl2pm"><primary sortas="b-pl2pm">pl2pm</primary></indexterm>
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126 | <para id="pl2pm"><command>pl2pm</command> is a rough tool for converting Perl4 .pl
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127 | files to Perl5 .pm modules.</para>
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128 |
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129 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pod2html"><primary sortas="b-pod2html">pod2html</primary></indexterm>
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130 | <para id="pod2html"><command>pod2html</command> converts files from pod format to HTML
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131 | format.</para>
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132 |
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133 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pod2latex"><primary sortas="b-pod2latex">pod2latex</primary></indexterm>
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134 | <para id="pod2latex"><command>pod2latex</command> converts files from pod format to LaTeX
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135 | format.</para>
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136 |
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137 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pod2man"><primary sortas="b-pod2man">pod2man</primary></indexterm>
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138 | <para id="pod2man"><command>pod2man</command> converts pod data to formatted *roff
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139 | input.</para>
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140 |
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141 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pod2text"><primary sortas="b-pod2text">pod2text</primary></indexterm>
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142 | <para id="pod2text"><command>pod2text</command> converts pod data to formatted ASCII
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143 | text.</para>
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144 |
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145 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pod2usage"><primary sortas="b-pod2usage">pod2usage</primary></indexterm>
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146 | <para id="pod2usage"><command>pod2usage</command> prints usage messages from embedded
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147 | pod docs in files.</para>
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148 |
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149 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl podchecker"><primary sortas="b-podchecker">podchecker</primary></indexterm>
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150 | <para id="podchecker"><command>podchecker</command> checks the syntax of pod format
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151 | documentation files.</para>
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152 |
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153 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl podselect"><primary sortas="b-podselect">podselect</primary></indexterm>
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154 | <para id="podselect"><command>podselect</command> displays selected sections of pod
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155 | documentation.</para>
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156 |
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157 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl psed"><primary sortas="b-psed">psed</primary></indexterm>
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158 | <para id="psed"><command>psed</command> is a Perl version of the stream editor
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159 | <userinput>sed</userinput>.</para>
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160 |
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161 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pstruct"><primary sortas="b-pstruct">pstruct</primary></indexterm>
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162 | <para id="pstruct"><command>pstruct</command> dumps C structures as generated from
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163 | "cc -g -S" stabs.</para>
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164 |
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165 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl s2p"><primary sortas="b-s2p">s2p</primary></indexterm>
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166 | <para id="s2p"><command>s2p</command> translates sed to perl.</para>
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167 |
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168 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl splain"><primary sortas="b-splain">splain</primary></indexterm>
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169 | <para id="splain"><command>splain</command> is used to force verbose warning
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170 | diagnostics in perl.</para>
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171 |
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172 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl xsubpp"><primary sortas="b-xsubpp">xsubpp</primary></indexterm>
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173 | <para id="xsubpp"><command>xsubpp</command> converts Perl XS code into C code.</para>
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174 |
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175 | </sect2>
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176 |
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177 |
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178 |
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179 | </sect1>
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