BOOK/chapter05/perl.xml

   1 <sect1 id="ch-tools-perl">
   2 <title>Installing Perl-&perl-version;</title>
   3 <?dbhtml filename="perl.html" dir="chapter05"?>
   4
   5 <screen>&buildtime; &perl-time-tools;
   6 &diskspace; &perl-compsize-tools;</screen>
   7
   8 &aa-perl-down;
   9 &aa-perl-dep;
  10
  11 <sect2><title>&nbsp;</title><para>&nbsp;</para></sect2>
  12
  13 <sect2>
  14 <title>Installation of Perl</title>
  15
  16 <para>First adapt some hard-wired paths to the C library:</para>
  17
  18 <screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&perl-libc-patch;</userinput></screen>
  19
  20 <para>Perl insists on using the <command>arch</command> program to find out
  21 the machine type. Create a little script to mimick this command:</para>
  22
  23 <screen><userinput>echo "uname -m" &gt; /tools/bin/arch
  24 chmod 755 /tools/bin/arch</userinput></screen>
  25
  26 <para>Now prepare Perl for compilation (make sure you get the 'IO Fcntl'
  27 right, they are all letters):</para>
  28
  29 <screen><userinput>./configure.gnu --prefix=/tools -Dstatic_ext='IO Fcntl'</userinput></screen>
  30
  31 <para>The meaning of the configure option:</para>
  32
  33 <itemizedlist>
  34 <listitem><para><userinput>-Dstatic_ext='IO Fcntl'</userinput>: This tells
  35 Perl to build the minimum set of static extensions needed for running the
  36 Coreutils test suite in the next chapter.</para></listitem>
  37 </itemizedlist>
  38
  39 <para>Compile only the required tools:</para>
  40
  41 <screen><userinput>make perl utilities</userinput></screen>
  42
  43 <para>Then copy these tools and their libraries:</para>
  44
  45 <screen><userinput>cp perl pod/pod2man /tools/bin
  46 mkdir -p /tools/lib/perl5/&perl-version;
  47 cp -R lib/* /tools/lib/perl5/&perl-version;</userinput></screen>
  48
  49 </sect2>
  50
  51 <sect2><title>&nbsp;</title><para>&nbsp;</para>
  52 <para>The details on this package are found in <xref linkend="contents-perl"/>.</para>
  53 <para>&nbsp;</para></sect2>
  54
  55 </sect1>
  56