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   6 <sect1 id="ch05-perl">
   7 <title>Installing Perl-&perl-version;</title>
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   9
  10 <screen>Estimated build time:           0.8 SBU
  11 Estimated required disk space:  74 MB</screen>
  12
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  15
  16 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="../appendixa/perl-deps.xml"/>
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  18
  19
  20 <sect2>
  21 <title>Installation of Perl</title>
  22
  23 <para>First adapt some hard-wired paths to the C library:</para>
  24
  25 <screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../perl-&perl-version;-libc-1.patch</userinput></screen>
  26
  27 <para>Now prepare Perl for compilation:</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 </sect1>