Changeset ef13657 for chapter06/perl.xml


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08/08/2004 02:11:09 AM (20 years ago)
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Gerard Beekmans <gerard@…>
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Completed global edits for upcoming 6.0 release

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    2929<title>Installation of Perl</title>
    3030
    31 <para>If you want full control over the way Perl is set up, you can run the
    32 interactive <command>Configure</command> script and hand-pick the way this
    33 package is built. If you think you can live with the (sensible)
    34 defaults it auto-detects, then prepare Perl for compilation with:</para>
     31<para>To have full control over the way Perl is set up, run the
     32interactive <command>Configure</command> script and hand-pick the way
     33this package is built. If the defaults it auto-detects are suitable,
     34prepare Perl for compilation with:</para>
    3535
    3636<screen><userinput>./configure.gnu --prefix=/usr -Dpager="/bin/less -isR"</userinput></screen>
    … …  
    5050<screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
    5151
    52 <para>If you wish to run the test suite, you first have to create a basic
    53 <filename>/etc/hosts</filename> file, which is needed by a couple of tests to
    54 resolve the name <emphasis>localhost</emphasis>:</para>
     52<para>To run the test suite, first create a basic
     53<filename>/etc/hosts</filename> file which is needed by a couple of
     54tests to resolve the network name localhost:</para>
    5555
    5656<screen><userinput>echo "127.0.0.1 localhost $(hostname)" &gt; /etc/hosts</userinput></screen>
    5757
    58 <para>Now run the tests, if you wish:</para>
     58<para>Now run the tests, if desired:</para>
    5959
    6060<screen><userinput>make test</userinput></screen>
    6161
    62 <para>Finally, install the package:</para>
     62<para>Install the package:</para>
    6363
    6464<screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
    … …  
    7777pod2text, pod2usage, podchecker, podselect, psed (link to s2p), pstruct (link
    7878to c2ph), s2p, splain and xsubpp</seg>
    79 <seg>(too many to name)</seg></seglistitem>
     79<seg>Several hundred which cannot be all listed here</seg></seglistitem>
    8080</segmentedlist>
    8181
    … …  
    9494<listitem>
    9595<indexterm zone="ch-system-perl c2ph"><primary sortas="b-c2ph">c2ph</primary></indexterm>
    96 <para>dumps C structures as generated from <quote>cc -g -S</quote> stabs.</para>
     96<para>dumps C structures as generated from <quote>cc -g -S</quote>.</para>
    9797</listitem>
    9898</varlistentry>
    … …  
    110110<listitem>
    111111<indexterm zone="ch-system-perl en2cxs"><primary sortas="b-en2cxs">en2cxs</primary></indexterm>
    112 <para>builds a Perl extension for the Encode module,
    113 from either Unicode Character Mappings or Tcl Encoding Files.</para>
     112<para>builds a Perl extension for the Encode module, from either
     113Unicode Character Mappings or Tcl Encoding Files.</para>
    114114</listitem>
    115115</varlistentry>
    … …  
    152152<listitem>
    153153<indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perl"><primary sortas="b-perl">perl</primary></indexterm>
    154 <para>combines some of the best features of C, sed,
    155 awk and sh into a single swiss-army language.</para>
     154<para>combines some of the best features of C, sed, awk and sh into a
     155single swiss-army language.</para>
    156156</listitem>
    157157</varlistentry>
    … …  
    161161<listitem>
    162162<indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perlbug"><primary sortas="b-perlbug">perlbug</primary></indexterm>
    163 <para>is used to generate bug reports about
    164 Perl or the modules that come with it, and mail them.</para>
     163<para>used to generate bug reports about Perl or the modules that come
     164with it, and mail them.</para>
    165165</listitem>
    166166</varlistentry>
    … …  
    178178<listitem>
    179179<indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perldoc"><primary sortas="b-perldoc">perldoc</primary></indexterm>
    180 <para>displays a piece of documentation in pod
    181 format that is embedded in the Perl installation tree or in a Perl script.</para>
     180<para>displays a piece of documentation in pod format that is embedded
     181in the Perl installation tree or in a Perl script.</para>
    182182</listitem>
    183183</varlistentry>
    … …  
    187187<listitem>
    188188<indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perlivp"><primary sortas="b-perlivp">perlivp</primary></indexterm>
    189 <para>is the Perl Installation Verification Procedure. It can be used to verify that
    190 Perl and its libraries have been installed correctly.</para>
     189<para>the Perl Installation Verification Procedure. It can be used to
     190verify that Perl and its libraries have been installed
     191correctly.</para>
    191192</listitem>
    192193</varlistentry>
    … …  
    196197<listitem>
    197198<indexterm zone="ch-system-perl piconv"><primary sortas="b-piconv">piconv</primary></indexterm>
    198 <para>is a Perl version of the character encoding
    199 converter <command>iconv</command>.</para>
     199<para>is a Perl version of the character encoding converter
     200<command>iconv</command>.</para>
    200201</listitem>
    201202</varlistentry>
    … …  
    270271<listitem>
    271272<indexterm zone="ch-system-perl psed"><primary sortas="b-psed">psed</primary></indexterm>
    272 <para>is a Perl version of the stream editor <command>sed</command>.</para>
     273<para>a Perl version of the stream editor <command>sed</command>.</para>
    273274</listitem>
    274275</varlistentry>
    … …  
    294295<listitem>
    295296<indexterm zone="ch-system-perl splain"><primary sortas="b-splain">splain</primary></indexterm>
    296 <para>is used to force verbose warning
    297 diagnostics in Perl.</para>
     297<para>is used to force verbose warning diagnostics in Perl.</para>
    298298</listitem>
    299299</varlistentry>
    … …  
    311311
    312312</sect1>
     313
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