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Revise the note text for the removal of setting the hostname when utilizing the boot method as it is in procps now.
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[3f8be484]1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
[aa18ac0]2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
[3f8be484]4 <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
5 %general-entities;
6]>
7
8<sect1 id="ch-system-perl" role="wrap">
9 <?dbhtml filename="perl.html"?>
10
11 <title>Perl-&perl-version;</title>
12
13 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl">
14 <primary sortas="a-Perl">Perl</primary>
15 </indexterm>
16
17 <sect2 role="package">
18 <title/>
19
20 <para>The Perl package contains the Practical Extraction and Report
21 Language.</para>
22
23 </sect2>
24
25 <sect2 role="installation">
26 <title>Installation of Perl</title>
27
[ccd51bc]28 <para os="s3">By default, Perl's Compress::Raw::Zlib module builds and
29 links against its own internal copy of Zlib. The following command will
[7f1773b]30 tell it to use the system-installed Zlib:</para>
[ccd51bc]31
[e74f725]32<screen os="s4"><userinput>sed -i -e '/^BUILD_ZLIB/s/True/False/' \
33 -e '/^INCLUDE/s,\./zlib-src,/usr/include,' \
34 -e '/^LIB/s,\./zlib-src,/usr/lib,' \
35 cpan/Compress-Raw-Zlib/config.in</userinput></screen>
[ccd51bc]36
[d73cf0a]37 <note os="a00">
38 <para>If you are following the boot method you will need to enable the
[ce32b58]39 loopback device:</para>
[d73cf0a]40
[4ff8077d]41<screen><userinput remap="test">ip link set lo up</userinput></screen>
[d73cf0a]42 </note>
43
[ba3910e]44 <para os="a01">Before starting to configure, create a basic
[36da727]45 <filename>/etc/hosts</filename> file which will be referenced by one
46 of Perl's configuration files as well as used by the testsuite:</para>
[0b1aa01]47
[ba3910e]48<screen os="a02"><userinput remap="test">echo "127.0.0.1 localhost $(hostname)" &gt; /etc/hosts</userinput></screen>
[0b1aa01]49
[cfe892d]50 <para os="a">To have full control over the way Perl is set up, you can
51 run the interactive <command>Configure</command> script and hand-pick
52 the way this package is built. If you prefer instead to use the defaults
53 that Perl auto-detects, prepare Perl for compilation with:</para>
[3f8be484]54
[9bf414b]55<screen os="b"><userinput>./configure.gnu --prefix=/usr \
[42622bd]56 -Dvendorprefix=/usr \
[bbf90e8]57 -Dman1dir=/usr/share/man/man1 \
58 -Dman3dir=/usr/share/man/man3 \
[c33fed0]59 -Dpager="/bin/less -isR" \
[1da2a84]60 -Dusethreads -Duseshrplib</userinput></screen>
[3f8be484]61
[e0e40d3]62 <variablelist os="c">
[3f8be484]63 <title>The meaning of the configure option:</title>
64
[e0e40d3]65 <varlistentry os="c1">
[3f8be484]66 <term><parameter>-Dpager="/bin/less -isR"</parameter></term>
67 <listitem>
68 <para>This corrects an error in the way that <command>perldoc</command>
69 invokes the <command>less</command> program.</para>
70 </listitem>
71 </varlistentry>
[1da2a84]72
[bbf90e8]73 <varlistentry os="c2">
74 <term><parameter>-Dman1dir=/usr/share/man/man1 -Dman3dir=/usr/share/man/man3</parameter></term>
75 <listitem>
76 <para>Since Groff is not installed yet,
77 <command>configure.gnu</command> thinks that we do not want
78 man pages for Perl. Issuing these parameters overrides this decision.</para>
79 </listitem>
80 </varlistentry>
[1da2a84]81
[c33fed0]82 <varlistentry os="c3">
83 <term><parameter>-Dusethreads</parameter></term>
84 <listitem>
85 <para>This tells Perl to use threads.</para>
86 </listitem>
87 </varlistentry>
[1da2a84]88
89 <varlistentry os="c4">
90 <term><parameter>-Duseshrplib</parameter></term>
91 <listitem>
92 <para>This tells Perl to build a shared libperl.</para>
93 </listitem>
94 </varlistentry>
95
[3f8be484]96 </variablelist>
97
[e0e40d3]98 <para os="d">Compile the package:</para>
[3f8be484]99
[e0e40d3]100<screen os="e"><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
[3f8be484]101
[686839b]102 <para os="h">To test the results, issue:</para>
103
104<screen os="h2"><userinput remap="test">make test</userinput></screen>
[3f8be484]105
[e0e40d3]106 <para os="j">Install the package:</para>
[3f8be484]107
[e0e40d3]108<screen os="k"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
[3f8be484]109
110 </sect2>
111
112 <sect2 id="contents-perl" role="content">
113 <title>Contents of Perl</title>
114
115 <segmentedlist>
116 <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
117 <segtitle>Installed libraries</segtitle>
[61ad0b7f]118 <segtitle>Installed directory</segtitle>
[3f8be484]119
120 <seglistitem>
[427015f]121 <seg>a2p, c2ph, config_data, corelist, cpan, cpan2dist, cpanp,
[2b220db9]122 cpanp-run-perl, enc2xs, find2perl, h2ph, h2xs, instmodsh, json_pp,
[712214c]123 libnetcfg, perl, perl&perl-version; (link to perl), perlbug,
[6dbe056]124 perldoc, perlivp, perlthanks (link to perlbug), piconv, pl2pm, pod2html,
125 pod2latex, pod2man, pod2text, pod2usage, podchecker, podselect, prove,
[2b220db9]126 psed (link to s2p), pstruct (link to c2ph), ptar, ptardiff, ptargrep,
127 s2p, shasum, splain, xsubpp, and zipdetails</seg>
[3f8be484]128 <seg>Several hundred which cannot all be listed here</seg>
[61ad0b7f]129 <seg>/usr/lib/perl5</seg>
[3f8be484]130 </seglistitem>
131 </segmentedlist>
132
133 <variablelist>
134 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
135 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
136 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
137
138 <varlistentry id="a2p">
139 <term><command>a2p</command></term>
140 <listitem>
141 <para>Translates awk to Perl</para>
142 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl a2p">
143 <primary sortas="b-a2p">a2p</primary>
144 </indexterm>
145 </listitem>
146 </varlistentry>
147
148 <varlistentry id="c2ph">
149 <term><command>c2ph</command></term>
150 <listitem>
151 <para>Dumps C structures as generated from
152 <command>cc -g -S</command></para>
153 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl c2ph">
154 <primary sortas="b-c2ph">c2ph</primary>
155 </indexterm>
156 </listitem>
157 </varlistentry>
158
[427015f]159 <varlistentry id="config_data">
160 <term><command>config_data</command></term>
161 <listitem>
162 <para>Queries or changes configuration of Perl modules</para>
163 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl config_data">
164 <primary sortas="b-config_data">config_data</primary>
165 </indexterm>
166 </listitem>
167 </varlistentry>
168
169 <varlistentry id="corelist">
170 <term><command>corelist</command></term>
171 <listitem>
172 <para>A commandline frontend to Module::CoreList</para>
173 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl corelist">
174 <primary sortas="b-corelist">corelist</primary>
175 </indexterm>
176 </listitem>
177 </varlistentry>
178
[e29fb58]179 <varlistentry id="cpan">
180 <term><command>cpan</command></term>
181 <listitem>
182 <para>Shell script that provides a command interface to CPAN.pm</para>
183 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl cpan">
184 <primary sortas="b-cpan">cpan</primary>
185 </indexterm>
186 </listitem>
187 </varlistentry>
188
[427015f]189 <varlistentry id="cpan2dist">
190 <term><command>cpan2dist</command></term>
191 <listitem>
192 <para>The CPANPLUS distribution creator</para>
193 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl cpan2dist">
194 <primary sortas="b-cpan2dist">cpan2dist</primary>
195 </indexterm>
196 </listitem>
197 </varlistentry>
198
199 <varlistentry id="cpanp">
200 <term><command>cpanp</command></term>
201 <listitem>
202 <para>The CPANPLUS launcher</para>
203 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl cpanp">
204 <primary sortas="b-cpanp">cpanp</primary>
205 </indexterm>
206 </listitem>
207 </varlistentry>
208
209 <varlistentry id="cpanp-run-perl">
210 <term><command>cpanp-run-perl</command></term>
211 <listitem>
212 <para>Perl script that (description needed)</para>
213 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl cpanp-run-perl">
214 <primary sortas="b-cpanp-run-perl">cpanp-run-perl</primary>
215 </indexterm>
216 </listitem>
217 </varlistentry>
218
[045e44a]219 <varlistentry id="enc2xs">
220 <term><command>enc2xs</command></term>
221 <listitem>
222 <para>Builds a Perl extension for the Encode module from either
223 Unicode Character Mappings or Tcl Encoding Files</para>
224 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl enc2xs">
225 <primary sortas="b-enc2xs">enc2xs</primary>
226 </indexterm>
227 </listitem>
228 </varlistentry>
229
[3f8be484]230 <varlistentry id="find2perl">
231 <term><command>find2perl</command></term>
232 <listitem>
233 <para>Translates <command>find</command> commands to Perl</para>
234 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl find2perl">
235 <primary sortas="b-find2perl">find2perl</primary>
236 </indexterm>
237 </listitem>
238 </varlistentry>
239
240 <varlistentry id="h2ph">
241 <term><command>h2ph</command></term>
242 <listitem>
243 <para>Converts <filename class="extension">.h</filename> C header
244 files to <filename class="extension">.ph</filename> Perl header
245 files</para>
246 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl h2ph">
247 <primary sortas="b-h2ph">h2ph</primary>
248 </indexterm>
249 </listitem>
250 </varlistentry>
251
252 <varlistentry id="h2xs">
253 <term><command>h2xs</command></term>
254 <listitem>
255 <para>Converts <filename class="extension">.h</filename> C header
256 files to Perl extensions</para>
257 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl h2xs">
258 <primary sortas="b-h2xs">h2xs</primary>
259 </indexterm>
260 </listitem>
261 </varlistentry>
262
[e29fb58]263 <varlistentry id="instmodsh">
264 <term><command>instmodsh</command></term>
265 <listitem>
266 <para>A shell script for examining installed Perl modules,
267 and can even create a tarball from an installed module</para>
268 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl instmodsh">
269 <primary sortas="b-instmodsh">instmodsh</primary>
270 </indexterm>
271 </listitem>
272 </varlistentry>
273
[2b220db9]274 <varlistentry id="json_pp">
275 <term><command>json_pp</command></term>
276 <listitem>
277 <para>Converts data between certain input and output formats</para>
278 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl json_pp">
279 <primary sortas="b-json_pp">json_pp</primary>
280 </indexterm>
281 </listitem>
282 </varlistentry>
283
[427015f]284 <varlistentry id="libnetcfg">
285 <term><command>libnetcfg</command></term>
286 <listitem>
287 <para>Can be used to configure the
288 <filename class="libraryfile">libnet</filename></para>
289 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl libnetcfg">
290 <primary sortas="b-libnetcfg">libnetcfg</primary>
291 </indexterm>
292 </listitem>
293 </varlistentry>
294
[3f8be484]295 <varlistentry id="perl">
296 <term><command>perl</command></term>
297 <listitem>
298 <para>Combines some of the best features of C, <command>sed</command>,
299 <command>awk</command> and <command>sh</command> into a single
[1e91bbd]300 swiss-army-knife language</para>
[3f8be484]301 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perl">
302 <primary sortas="b-perl">perl</primary>
303 </indexterm>
304 </listitem>
305 </varlistentry>
306
307 <varlistentry id="perl-version">
308 <term><command>perl&perl-version;</command></term>
309 <listitem>
310 <para>A hard link to <command>perl</command></para>
311 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perl-version">
312 <primary sortas="b-perl&perl-version;">perl&perl-version;</primary>
313 </indexterm>
314 </listitem>
315 </varlistentry>
316
317 <varlistentry id="perlbug">
318 <term><command>perlbug</command></term>
319 <listitem>
320 <para>Used to generate bug reports about Perl, or the modules that come
321 with it, and mail them</para>
322 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perlbug">
323 <primary sortas="b-perlbug">perlbug</primary>
324 </indexterm>
325 </listitem>
326 </varlistentry>
327
328 <varlistentry id="perldoc">
329 <term><command>perldoc</command></term>
330 <listitem>
331 <para>Displays a piece of documentation in pod format that is embedded
332 in the Perl installation tree or in a Perl script</para>
333 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perldoc">
334 <primary sortas="b-perldoc">perldoc</primary>
335 </indexterm>
336 </listitem>
337 </varlistentry>
338
339 <varlistentry id="perlivp">
340 <term><command>perlivp</command></term>
341 <listitem>
342 <para>The Perl Installation Verification Procedure; it can be used to
343 verify that Perl and its libraries have been installed
344 correctly</para>
345 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perlivp">
346 <primary sortas="b-perlivp">perlivp</primary>
347 </indexterm>
348 </listitem>
349 </varlistentry>
350
[6dbe056]351 <varlistentry id="perlthanks">
352 <term><command>perlthanks</command></term>
353 <listitem>
354 <para>Used to generate thank you messages to mail to the Perl
355 developers</para>
356 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perlthanks">
357 <primary sortas="b-perlthanks">perlthanks</primary>
358 </indexterm>
359 </listitem>
360 </varlistentry>
361
[3f8be484]362 <varlistentry id="piconv">
363 <term><command>piconv</command></term>
364 <listitem>
365 <para>A Perl version of the character encoding converter
366 <command>iconv</command></para>
367 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl piconv">
368 <primary sortas="b-piconv">piconv</primary>
369 </indexterm>
370 </listitem>
371 </varlistentry>
372
373 <varlistentry id="pl2pm">
374 <term><command>pl2pm</command></term>
375 <listitem>
376 <para>A rough tool for converting Perl4
377 <filename class="extension">.pl</filename> files to Perl5
378 <filename class="extension">.pm</filename> modules</para>
379 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pl2pm">
380 <primary sortas="b-pl2pm">pl2pm</primary>
381 </indexterm>
382 </listitem>
383 </varlistentry>
384
385 <varlistentry id="pod2html">
386 <term><command>pod2html</command></term>
387 <listitem>
388 <para>Converts files from pod format to HTML format</para>
389 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pod2html">
390 <primary sortas="b-pod2html">pod2html</primary>
391 </indexterm>
392 </listitem>
393 </varlistentry>
394
395 <varlistentry id="pod2latex">
396 <term><command>pod2latex</command></term>
397 <listitem>
398 <para>Converts files from pod format to LaTeX format</para>
399 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pod2latex">
400 <primary sortas="b-pod2latex">pod2latex</primary>
401 </indexterm>
402 </listitem>
403 </varlistentry>
404
405 <varlistentry id="pod2man">
406 <term><command>pod2man</command></term>
407 <listitem>
408 <para>Converts pod data to formatted *roff input</para>
409 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pod2man">
410 <primary sortas="b-pod2man">pod2man</primary>
411 </indexterm>
412 </listitem>
413 </varlistentry>
414
415 <varlistentry id="pod2text">
416 <term><command>pod2text</command></term>
417 <listitem>
418 <para>Converts pod data to formatted ASCII text</para>
419 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pod2text">
420 <primary sortas="b-pod2text">pod2text</primary>
421 </indexterm>
422 </listitem>
423 </varlistentry>
424
425 <varlistentry id="pod2usage">
426 <term><command>pod2usage</command></term>
427 <listitem>
428 <para>Prints usage messages from embedded pod docs in files</para>
429 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pod2usage">
430 <primary sortas="b-pod2usage">pod2usage</primary>
431 </indexterm>
432 </listitem>
433 </varlistentry>
434
435 <varlistentry id="podchecker">
436 <term><command>podchecker</command></term>
437 <listitem>
438 <para>Checks the syntax of pod format documentation files</para>
439 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl podchecker">
440 <primary sortas="b-podchecker">podchecker</primary>
441 </indexterm>
442 </listitem>
443 </varlistentry>
444
445 <varlistentry id="podselect">
446 <term><command>podselect</command></term>
447 <listitem>
448 <para>Displays selected sections of pod documentation</para>
449 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl podselect">
450 <primary sortas="b-podselect">podselect</primary>
451 </indexterm>
452 </listitem>
453 </varlistentry>
454
[e29fb58]455 <varlistentry id="prove">
456 <term><command>prove</command></term>
457 <listitem>
458 <para>A command-line tool for running tests against Test::Harness</para>
459 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl prove">
460 <primary sortas="b-prove">prove</primary>
461 </indexterm>
462 </listitem>
463 </varlistentry>
464
[3f8be484]465 <varlistentry id="psed">
466 <term><command>psed</command></term>
467 <listitem>
468 <para>A Perl version of the stream editor <command>sed</command></para>
469 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl psed">
470 <primary sortas="b-psed">psed</primary>
471 </indexterm>
472 </listitem>
473 </varlistentry>
474
475 <varlistentry id="pstruct">
476 <term><command>pstruct</command></term>
477 <listitem>
478 <para>Dumps C structures as generated from <command>cc -g -S</command>
479 stabs</para>
480 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pstruct">
481 <primary sortas="b-pstruct">pstruct</primary>
482 </indexterm>
483 </listitem>
484 </varlistentry>
485
[427015f]486 <varlistentry id="ptar">
487 <term><command>ptar</command></term>
488 <listitem>
489 <para>A <command>tar</command>-like program written in Perl</para>
490 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl ptar">
491 <primary sortas="b-ptar">ptar</primary>
492 </indexterm>
493 </listitem>
494 </varlistentry>
495
496 <varlistentry id="ptardiff">
497 <term><command>ptardiff</command></term>
498 <listitem>
499 <para>A Perl program that compares an extracted archive with an
500 unextracted one</para>
501 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl ptardiff">
502 <primary sortas="b-ptardiff">ptardiff</primary>
503 </indexterm>
504 </listitem>
505 </varlistentry>
506
[2b220db9]507 <varlistentry id="ptargrep">
508 <term><command>ptargrep</command></term>
509 <listitem>
510 <para>A Perl program that applies pattern matching to the contents
511 of files in a tar archive</para>
512 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl ptargrep">
513 <primary sortas="b-ptargrep">ptargrep</primary>
514 </indexterm>
515 </listitem>
516 </varlistentry>
517
[3f8be484]518 <varlistentry id="s2p">
519 <term><command>s2p</command></term>
520 <listitem>
521 <para>Translates <command>sed</command> to Perl</para>
522 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl s2p">
523 <primary sortas="b-s2p">s2p</primary>
524 </indexterm>
525 </listitem>
526 </varlistentry>
527
[427015f]528 <varlistentry id="shasum">
529 <term><command>shasum</command></term>
530 <listitem>
531 <para>Prints or checks SHA checksums</para>
532 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl shasum">
533 <primary sortas="b-shasum">shasum</primary>
534 </indexterm>
535 </listitem>
536 </varlistentry>
537
[3f8be484]538 <varlistentry id="splain">
539 <term><command>splain</command></term>
540 <listitem>
541 <para>Is used to force verbose warning diagnostics in Perl</para>
542 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl splain">
543 <primary sortas="b-splain">splain</primary>
544 </indexterm>
545 </listitem>
546 </varlistentry>
547
548 <varlistentry id="xsubpp">
549 <term><command>xsubpp</command></term>
550 <listitem>
551 <para>Converts Perl XS code into C code</para>
552 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl xsubpp">
553 <primary sortas="b-xsubpp">xsubpp</primary>
554 </indexterm>
555 </listitem>
556 </varlistentry>
557
[2b220db9]558 <varlistentry id="zipdetails">
559 <term><command>zipdetails</command></term>
560 <listitem>
561 <para>Displays details about the internal structure of a Zip file</para>
562 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl zipdetails">
563 <primary sortas="b-zipdetails">zipdetails</primary>
564 </indexterm>
565 </listitem>
566 </varlistentry>
567
[3f8be484]568 </variablelist>
569
570 </sect2>
571
572</sect1>
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