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Moving short descriptions from appendix to chapter 6.

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1<sect1 id="ch06-perl">
2<title>Installing Perl-&perl-version;</title>
3<?dbhtml filename="perl.html" dir="chapter06"?>
4
5<screen>Estimated build time: &perl-time;
6Estimated required disk space: &perl-compsize;</screen>
7
8&aa-perl-shortdesc;
9&aa-perl-desc;
10
11<sect2><title>&nbsp;</title><para>&nbsp;</para></sect2>
12
13<sect2>
14<title>Installation of Perl</title>
15
16<para>Prepare Perl for compilation:</para>
17
18<screen><userinput>./configure.gnu --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>
19
20<para>If you want more control over the way Perl sets itself up to be
21built, you can run the interactive <userinput>Configure</userinput> script
22instead and modify the way Perl is built. If you think you can live with the
23(sensible) defaults Perl auto-detects, then just use the command listed
24above.</para>
25
26<para>Compile the package:</para>
27
28<screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
29
30<para>This package has a test suite available which can perform a number of
31checks to ensure it built correctly. Should you choose to run it, you first
32have to create a basic <filename>/etc/hosts</filename> file, needed by a
33couple of tests to resolve the name <emphasis>localhost</emphasis>:</para>
34
35<screen><userinput>echo "127.0.0.1 localhost $(hostname)" &gt; /etc/hosts</userinput></screen>
36
37<para>Now run the tests, if you wish:</para>
38
39<screen><userinput>make test</userinput></screen>
40
41<para>And install the package:</para>
42
43<screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
44
45</sect2>
46
47</sect1>
48
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