source: chapter07/perl.xml

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<sect1 id="ch-tools-perl" role="wrap">
  <?dbhtml filename="perl.html"?>

  <sect1info condition="script">
    <productname>perl</productname>
    <productnumber>&perl-version;</productnumber>
    <address>&perl-url;</address>
  </sect1info>

  <title>Perl-&perl-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="ch-tools-perl">
    <primary sortas="a-Perl">Perl</primary>
    <secondary>tools</secondary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title/>

    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
    href="../chapter08/perl.xml"
    xpointer="xpointer(/sect1/sect2[1]/para[1])"/>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
      <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>&perl-tmp-sbu;</seg>
        <seg>&perl-tmp-du;</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of Perl</title>

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

    <screen><userinput remap="configure">sh Configure -des                                        \
             -Dprefix=/usr                               \
             -Dvendorprefix=/usr                         \
             -Duseshrplib                                \
             -Dprivlib=/usr/lib/perl5/&perl-version-min;/core_perl     \
             -Darchlib=/usr/lib/perl5/&perl-version-min;/core_perl     \
             -Dsitelib=/usr/lib/perl5/&perl-version-min;/site_perl     \
             -Dsitearch=/usr/lib/perl5/&perl-version-min;/site_perl    \
             -Dvendorlib=/usr/lib/perl5/&perl-version-min;/vendor_perl \
             -Dvendorarch=/usr/lib/perl5/&perl-version-min;/vendor_perl</userinput></screen>

    <variablelist>
      <title>The meaning of the Configure options:</title>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><parameter>-des</parameter></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>This is a combination of three options: -d uses defaults for
          all items; -e ensures completion of all tasks; -s silences
          non-essential output.</para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><parameter>-Dvendorprefix=/usr</parameter></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>This ensures <command>perl</command> knows how to
          tell packages where they should install their Perl modules.</para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><parameter>-Duseshrplib</parameter></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Build <systemitem class='library'>libperl</systemitem>
          needed by some Perl modules as a shared library, instead of
          a static library.</para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><parameter>-Dprivlib,-Darchlib,-Dsitelib,...</parameter></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>These settings define where Perl looks for installed
          modules. The LFS editors chose to put them in a directory structure
          based on the MAJOR.MINOR version of Perl (&perl-version-min;) which
          allows upgrading Perl to newer patch levels (the patch level is
          the last dot separated part in the full version string like
          &perl-version;) without reinstalling all of the modules.</para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

    <para>Compile the package:</para>

<screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>

    <para>Install the package:</para>

<screen><userinput remap="install">make install</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="content">
    <title/>

    <para>Details on this package are located in <xref linkend="contents-perl" role="."/></para>

  </sect2>

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