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<sect1 id="ch-system-perl" xreflabel="Perl">
<title>Installing Perl-&perl-version;</title>
<?dbhtml filename="perl.html" dir="chapter06"?>

<para>The Perl package contains the Practical Extraction and Report Language.</para>

<screen>&buildtime; &perl-time;
&diskspace; &perl-compsize;</screen>

<literallayout>Official download location for Perl (&perl-version;):
<ulink url="http://www.perl.com/"/></literallayout>

&aa-perl-dep;

<sect2><title>&nbsp;</title><para>&nbsp;</para></sect2>

<sect2>
<title>Installation of Perl</title>

<para>Prepare Perl for compilation:</para>

<screen><userinput>./configure.gnu --prefix=/usr -Dpager="/bin/less -isR"</userinput></screen>

<para>If you want more control over the way Perl sets itself up to be
built, you can run the interactive <command>Configure</command> script
instead and modify the way Perl is built. If you think you can live with the
(sensible) defaults Perl auto-detects, then just use the command listed
above.</para>

<para>The meaning of the configure option:</para>

<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para><userinput>-Dpager="/bin/less -isR"</userinput>: This corrects
an error in the perldoc code with the invocation of the less
program.</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>

<para>Compile the package:</para>

<screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>

<para>This package has a test suite available which can perform a number of
checks to ensure it built correctly.  Should you choose to run it, you first
have to create a basic <filename>/etc/hosts</filename> file, needed by a
couple of tests to resolve the name <emphasis>localhost</emphasis>:</para>

<screen><userinput>echo "127.0.0.1 localhost $(hostname)" &gt; /etc/hosts</userinput></screen>

<para>Now run the tests, if you wish:</para>

<screen><userinput>make test</userinput></screen>

<para>And install the package:</para>

<screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>

</sect2>

&aa-perl-shortdesc;
&aa-perl-desc;

</sect1>