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12 <productname>perl</productname>
13 <productnumber>&perl-version;</productnumber>
14 <address>&perl-url;</address>
17 <title>Perl-&perl-version;</title>
19 <indexterm zone="ch-tools-perl">
20 <primary sortas="a-Perl">Perl</primary>
21 <secondary>tools</secondary>
24 <sect2 role="package">
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32 <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
33 <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
36 <seg>&perl-ch5-sbu;</seg>
37 <seg>&perl-ch5-du;</seg>
43 <sect2 role="installation">
44 <title>Installation of Perl</title>
46 <para>First apply the following patch to adapt some hard-wired paths to the
49 <screen><userinput remap="pre">patch -Np1 -i ../&perl-libc-patch;</userinput></screen>
51 Note: -Dlibs=-lm below avoids looking for gdbm and db libraries causing failure
53 <para>Prepare Perl for compilation:</para>
55 <screen><userinput remap="configure">sh Configure -des -Dprefix=/tools -Dlibs=-lm</userinput></screen>
57 <para>Build the package:</para>
59 <screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
61 <para>Although Perl comes with a test suite, it would be better to wait
62 until it is installed in the next chapter.</para>
64 <para>Only a few of the utilities and libraries need to be installed at this
67 <screen><userinput remap="install">cp -v perl cpan/podlators/pod2man /tools/bin
68 mkdir -pv /tools/lib/perl5/&perl-version;
69 cp -Rv lib/* /tools/lib/perl5/&perl-version;</userinput></screen>
73 <sect2 role="content">
76 <para>Details on this package are located in
77 <xref linkend="contents-perl" role="."/></para>