chapter05/perl.xml

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   8 <sect1 id="ch-tools-perl" role="wrap">
   9   <?dbhtml filename="perl.html"?>
  10
  11   <sect1info condition="script">
  12     <productname>perl</productname>
  13     <productnumber>&perl-version;</productnumber>
  14     <address>&perl-url;</address>
  15   </sect1info>
  16
  17   <title>Perl-&perl-version;</title>
  18
  19   <indexterm zone="ch-tools-perl">
  20     <primary sortas="a-Perl">Perl</primary>
  21     <secondary>tools</secondary>
  22   </indexterm>
  23
  24   <sect2 role="package">
  25     <title/>
  26
  27     <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
  28     href="../chapter06/perl.xml"
  29     xpointer="xpointer(/sect1/sect2[1]/para[1])"/>
  30
  31     <segmentedlist>
  32       <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
  33       <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
  34
  35       <seglistitem>
  36         <seg>&perl-ch5-sbu;</seg>
  37         <seg>&perl-ch5-du;</seg>
  38       </seglistitem>
  39     </segmentedlist>
  40
  41   </sect2>
  42
  43   <sect2 role="installation">
  44     <title>Installation of Perl</title>
  45 <!--
  46     <para>First apply the following patch to adapt some hard-wired paths to the
  47     C library:</para>
  48
  49 <screen><userinput remap="pre">patch -Np1 -i ../&perl-libc-patch;</userinput></screen>
  50
  51     Note: -Dlibs=-lm below avoids looking for gdbm and db libraries causing failure
  52 -->
  53     <para>Prepare Perl for compilation:</para>
  54
  55 <screen><userinput remap="configure">sh Configure -des -Dprefix=/tools -Dlibs=-lm</userinput></screen>
  56
  57     <para>Build the package:</para>
  58
  59 <screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
  60
  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>
  63
  64     <para>Only a few of the utilities and libraries need to be installed at this
  65     time:</para>
  66
  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>
  70
  71   </sect2>
  72
  73   <sect2 role="content">
  74     <title/>
  75
  76     <para>Details on this package are located in
  77     <xref linkend="contents-perl" role="."/></para>
  78
  79   </sect2>
  80
  81 </sect1>