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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
[9cc06db]28 <para os="s3">By default, Perl's Compress::Raw::Zlib and
29 Compress::Raw::Bzip2 modules build and link against internal copies of
30 Zlib and Bzip2. The following command will make Perl use the
31 system-installed copies of these libraries:</para>
[ccd51bc]32
[9cc06db]33<screen os="s4"><userinput>export BUILD_ZLIB=False
34export BUILD_BZIP2=0</userinput></screen>
[ccd51bc]35
[d73cf0a]36 <note os="a00">
37 <para>If you are following the boot method you will need to enable the
[ce32b58]38 loopback device:</para>
[d73cf0a]39
[4ff8077d]40<screen><userinput remap="test">ip link set lo up</userinput></screen>
[d73cf0a]41 </note>
42
[ba3910e]43 <para os="a01">Before starting to configure, create a basic
[36da727]44 <filename>/etc/hosts</filename> file which will be referenced by one
[33346dd]45 of Perl's configuration files as well as used by the test suite:</para>
[0b1aa01]46
[ba3910e]47<screen os="a02"><userinput remap="test">echo "127.0.0.1 localhost $(hostname)" &gt; /etc/hosts</userinput></screen>
[0b1aa01]48
[cfe892d]49 <para os="a">To have full control over the way Perl is set up, you can
50 run the interactive <command>Configure</command> script and hand-pick
51 the way this package is built. If you prefer instead to use the defaults
52 that Perl auto-detects, prepare Perl for compilation with:</para>
[3f8be484]53
[b27081c4]54<screen os="b"><userinput>./configure.gnu \
55 --prefix=/usr \
56 -Dvendorprefix=/usr \
57 -Dman1dir=/usr/share/man/man1 \
58 -Dman3dir=/usr/share/man/man3 \
59 -Dpager="/bin/less -isR" \
[c1eab93]60 -Dusethreads \
61 -Duseshrplib</userinput></screen>
[3f8be484]62
[e0e40d3]63 <variablelist os="c">
[3f8be484]64 <title>The meaning of the configure option:</title>
65
[e0e40d3]66 <varlistentry os="c1">
[c9f9769]67 <term><parameter>-Dman1dir=/usr/share/man/man1 -Dman3dir=/usr/share/man/man3</parameter></term>
[3f8be484]68 <listitem>
[c9f9769]69 <para>Since Groff is not installed yet,
70 <command>configure.gnu</command> thinks that we do not want
71 man pages for Perl. Issuing these parameters overrides this decision.</para>
[3f8be484]72 </listitem>
73 </varlistentry>
[1da2a84]74
[bbf90e8]75 <varlistentry os="c2">
[c9f9769]76 <term><parameter>-Dpager="/bin/less -isR"</parameter></term>
[bbf90e8]77 <listitem>
[c9f9769]78 <para>Less has not yet been installed, so by default
79 <command>perldoc</command> will invoke the <command>more</command>
80 program for viewing documentation. This option ensures that it will
81 use <command>less</command> instead.</para>
[bbf90e8]82 </listitem>
83 </varlistentry>
[1da2a84]84
[c33fed0]85 <varlistentry os="c3">
86 <term><parameter>-Dusethreads</parameter></term>
87 <listitem>
88 <para>This tells Perl to use threads.</para>
89 </listitem>
90 </varlistentry>
[1da2a84]91
92 <varlistentry os="c4">
93 <term><parameter>-Duseshrplib</parameter></term>
94 <listitem>
95 <para>This tells Perl to build a shared libperl.</para>
96 </listitem>
97 </varlistentry>
98
[3f8be484]99 </variablelist>
100
[e0e40d3]101 <para os="d">Compile the package:</para>
[3f8be484]102
[e0e40d3]103<screen os="e"><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
[3f8be484]104
[686839b]105 <para os="h">To test the results, issue:</para>
106
107<screen os="h2"><userinput remap="test">make test</userinput></screen>
[3f8be484]108
[9cc06db]109 <para os="j">Install the package and remove the variables set previously:</para>
[3f8be484]110
[9cc06db]111<screen os="k"><userinput>make install
112unset BUILD_ZLIB BUILD_BZIP2</userinput></screen>
[3f8be484]113
114 </sect2>
115
116 <sect2 id="contents-perl" role="content">
117 <title>Contents of Perl</title>
118
119 <segmentedlist>
120 <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
121 <segtitle>Installed libraries</segtitle>
[61ad0b7f]122 <segtitle>Installed directory</segtitle>
[3f8be484]123
124 <seglistitem>
[427015f]125 <seg>a2p, c2ph, config_data, corelist, cpan, cpan2dist, cpanp,
[2b220db9]126 cpanp-run-perl, enc2xs, find2perl, h2ph, h2xs, instmodsh, json_pp,
[712214c]127 libnetcfg, perl, perl&perl-version; (link to perl), perlbug,
[6dbe056]128 perldoc, perlivp, perlthanks (link to perlbug), piconv, pl2pm, pod2html,
129 pod2latex, pod2man, pod2text, pod2usage, podchecker, podselect, prove,
[2b220db9]130 psed (link to s2p), pstruct (link to c2ph), ptar, ptardiff, ptargrep,
[c2102b28]131 s2p, shasum, splain, xsubpp, zipdetails</seg>
[3f8be484]132 <seg>Several hundred which cannot all be listed here</seg>
[61ad0b7f]133 <seg>/usr/lib/perl5</seg>
[3f8be484]134 </seglistitem>
135 </segmentedlist>
136
137 <variablelist>
138 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
139 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
140 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
141
142 <varlistentry id="a2p">
143 <term><command>a2p</command></term>
144 <listitem>
145 <para>Translates awk to Perl</para>
146 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl a2p">
147 <primary sortas="b-a2p">a2p</primary>
148 </indexterm>
149 </listitem>
150 </varlistentry>
151
152 <varlistentry id="c2ph">
153 <term><command>c2ph</command></term>
154 <listitem>
155 <para>Dumps C structures as generated from
156 <command>cc -g -S</command></para>
157 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl c2ph">
158 <primary sortas="b-c2ph">c2ph</primary>
159 </indexterm>
160 </listitem>
161 </varlistentry>
162
[427015f]163 <varlistentry id="config_data">
164 <term><command>config_data</command></term>
165 <listitem>
166 <para>Queries or changes configuration of Perl modules</para>
167 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl config_data">
168 <primary sortas="b-config_data">config_data</primary>
169 </indexterm>
170 </listitem>
171 </varlistentry>
172
173 <varlistentry id="corelist">
174 <term><command>corelist</command></term>
175 <listitem>
176 <para>A commandline frontend to Module::CoreList</para>
177 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl corelist">
178 <primary sortas="b-corelist">corelist</primary>
179 </indexterm>
180 </listitem>
181 </varlistentry>
182
[e29fb58]183 <varlistentry id="cpan">
184 <term><command>cpan</command></term>
185 <listitem>
186 <para>Shell script that provides a command interface to CPAN.pm</para>
187 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl cpan">
188 <primary sortas="b-cpan">cpan</primary>
189 </indexterm>
190 </listitem>
191 </varlistentry>
192
[427015f]193 <varlistentry id="cpan2dist">
194 <term><command>cpan2dist</command></term>
195 <listitem>
196 <para>The CPANPLUS distribution creator</para>
197 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl cpan2dist">
198 <primary sortas="b-cpan2dist">cpan2dist</primary>
199 </indexterm>
200 </listitem>
201 </varlistentry>
202
203 <varlistentry id="cpanp">
204 <term><command>cpanp</command></term>
205 <listitem>
206 <para>The CPANPLUS launcher</para>
207 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl cpanp">
208 <primary sortas="b-cpanp">cpanp</primary>
209 </indexterm>
210 </listitem>
211 </varlistentry>
212
213 <varlistentry id="cpanp-run-perl">
214 <term><command>cpanp-run-perl</command></term>
215 <listitem>
216 <para>Perl script that (description needed)</para>
217 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl cpanp-run-perl">
218 <primary sortas="b-cpanp-run-perl">cpanp-run-perl</primary>
219 </indexterm>
220 </listitem>
221 </varlistentry>
222
[045e44a]223 <varlistentry id="enc2xs">
224 <term><command>enc2xs</command></term>
225 <listitem>
226 <para>Builds a Perl extension for the Encode module from either
227 Unicode Character Mappings or Tcl Encoding Files</para>
228 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl enc2xs">
229 <primary sortas="b-enc2xs">enc2xs</primary>
230 </indexterm>
231 </listitem>
232 </varlistentry>
233
[3f8be484]234 <varlistentry id="find2perl">
235 <term><command>find2perl</command></term>
236 <listitem>
237 <para>Translates <command>find</command> commands to Perl</para>
238 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl find2perl">
239 <primary sortas="b-find2perl">find2perl</primary>
240 </indexterm>
241 </listitem>
242 </varlistentry>
243
244 <varlistentry id="h2ph">
245 <term><command>h2ph</command></term>
246 <listitem>
247 <para>Converts <filename class="extension">.h</filename> C header
248 files to <filename class="extension">.ph</filename> Perl header
249 files</para>
250 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl h2ph">
251 <primary sortas="b-h2ph">h2ph</primary>
252 </indexterm>
253 </listitem>
254 </varlistentry>
255
256 <varlistentry id="h2xs">
257 <term><command>h2xs</command></term>
258 <listitem>
259 <para>Converts <filename class="extension">.h</filename> C header
260 files to Perl extensions</para>
261 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl h2xs">
262 <primary sortas="b-h2xs">h2xs</primary>
263 </indexterm>
264 </listitem>
265 </varlistentry>
266
[e29fb58]267 <varlistentry id="instmodsh">
268 <term><command>instmodsh</command></term>
269 <listitem>
270 <para>A shell script for examining installed Perl modules,
271 and can even create a tarball from an installed module</para>
272 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl instmodsh">
273 <primary sortas="b-instmodsh">instmodsh</primary>
274 </indexterm>
275 </listitem>
276 </varlistentry>
277
[2b220db9]278 <varlistentry id="json_pp">
279 <term><command>json_pp</command></term>
280 <listitem>
281 <para>Converts data between certain input and output formats</para>
282 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl json_pp">
283 <primary sortas="b-json_pp">json_pp</primary>
284 </indexterm>
285 </listitem>
286 </varlistentry>
287
[427015f]288 <varlistentry id="libnetcfg">
289 <term><command>libnetcfg</command></term>
290 <listitem>
291 <para>Can be used to configure the
292 <filename class="libraryfile">libnet</filename></para>
293 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl libnetcfg">
294 <primary sortas="b-libnetcfg">libnetcfg</primary>
295 </indexterm>
296 </listitem>
297 </varlistentry>
298
[3f8be484]299 <varlistentry id="perl">
300 <term><command>perl</command></term>
301 <listitem>
302 <para>Combines some of the best features of C, <command>sed</command>,
303 <command>awk</command> and <command>sh</command> into a single
[1e91bbd]304 swiss-army-knife language</para>
[3f8be484]305 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perl">
306 <primary sortas="b-perl">perl</primary>
307 </indexterm>
308 </listitem>
309 </varlistentry>
310
311 <varlistentry id="perl-version">
312 <term><command>perl&perl-version;</command></term>
313 <listitem>
314 <para>A hard link to <command>perl</command></para>
315 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perl-version">
316 <primary sortas="b-perl&perl-version;">perl&perl-version;</primary>
317 </indexterm>
318 </listitem>
319 </varlistentry>
320
321 <varlistentry id="perlbug">
322 <term><command>perlbug</command></term>
323 <listitem>
324 <para>Used to generate bug reports about Perl, or the modules that come
325 with it, and mail them</para>
326 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perlbug">
327 <primary sortas="b-perlbug">perlbug</primary>
328 </indexterm>
329 </listitem>
330 </varlistentry>
331
332 <varlistentry id="perldoc">
333 <term><command>perldoc</command></term>
334 <listitem>
335 <para>Displays a piece of documentation in pod format that is embedded
336 in the Perl installation tree or in a Perl script</para>
337 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perldoc">
338 <primary sortas="b-perldoc">perldoc</primary>
339 </indexterm>
340 </listitem>
341 </varlistentry>
342
343 <varlistentry id="perlivp">
344 <term><command>perlivp</command></term>
345 <listitem>
346 <para>The Perl Installation Verification Procedure; it can be used to
347 verify that Perl and its libraries have been installed
348 correctly</para>
349 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perlivp">
350 <primary sortas="b-perlivp">perlivp</primary>
351 </indexterm>
352 </listitem>
353 </varlistentry>
354
[6dbe056]355 <varlistentry id="perlthanks">
356 <term><command>perlthanks</command></term>
357 <listitem>
358 <para>Used to generate thank you messages to mail to the Perl
359 developers</para>
360 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perlthanks">
361 <primary sortas="b-perlthanks">perlthanks</primary>
362 </indexterm>
363 </listitem>
364 </varlistentry>
365
[3f8be484]366 <varlistentry id="piconv">
367 <term><command>piconv</command></term>
368 <listitem>
369 <para>A Perl version of the character encoding converter
370 <command>iconv</command></para>
371 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl piconv">
372 <primary sortas="b-piconv">piconv</primary>
373 </indexterm>
374 </listitem>
375 </varlistentry>
376
377 <varlistentry id="pl2pm">
378 <term><command>pl2pm</command></term>
379 <listitem>
380 <para>A rough tool for converting Perl4
381 <filename class="extension">.pl</filename> files to Perl5
382 <filename class="extension">.pm</filename> modules</para>
383 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pl2pm">
384 <primary sortas="b-pl2pm">pl2pm</primary>
385 </indexterm>
386 </listitem>
387 </varlistentry>
388
389 <varlistentry id="pod2html">
390 <term><command>pod2html</command></term>
391 <listitem>
392 <para>Converts files from pod format to HTML format</para>
393 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pod2html">
394 <primary sortas="b-pod2html">pod2html</primary>
395 </indexterm>
396 </listitem>
397 </varlistentry>
398
399 <varlistentry id="pod2latex">
400 <term><command>pod2latex</command></term>
401 <listitem>
402 <para>Converts files from pod format to LaTeX format</para>
403 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pod2latex">
404 <primary sortas="b-pod2latex">pod2latex</primary>
405 </indexterm>
406 </listitem>
407 </varlistentry>
408
409 <varlistentry id="pod2man">
410 <term><command>pod2man</command></term>
411 <listitem>
412 <para>Converts pod data to formatted *roff input</para>
413 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pod2man">
414 <primary sortas="b-pod2man">pod2man</primary>
415 </indexterm>
416 </listitem>
417 </varlistentry>
418
419 <varlistentry id="pod2text">
420 <term><command>pod2text</command></term>
421 <listitem>
422 <para>Converts pod data to formatted ASCII text</para>
423 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pod2text">
424 <primary sortas="b-pod2text">pod2text</primary>
425 </indexterm>
426 </listitem>
427 </varlistentry>
428
429 <varlistentry id="pod2usage">
430 <term><command>pod2usage</command></term>
431 <listitem>
432 <para>Prints usage messages from embedded pod docs in files</para>
433 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pod2usage">
434 <primary sortas="b-pod2usage">pod2usage</primary>
435 </indexterm>
436 </listitem>
437 </varlistentry>
438
439 <varlistentry id="podchecker">
440 <term><command>podchecker</command></term>
441 <listitem>
442 <para>Checks the syntax of pod format documentation files</para>
443 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl podchecker">
444 <primary sortas="b-podchecker">podchecker</primary>
445 </indexterm>
446 </listitem>
447 </varlistentry>
448
449 <varlistentry id="podselect">
450 <term><command>podselect</command></term>
451 <listitem>
452 <para>Displays selected sections of pod documentation</para>
453 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl podselect">
454 <primary sortas="b-podselect">podselect</primary>
455 </indexterm>
456 </listitem>
457 </varlistentry>
458
[e29fb58]459 <varlistentry id="prove">
460 <term><command>prove</command></term>
461 <listitem>
462 <para>A command-line tool for running tests against Test::Harness</para>
463 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl prove">
464 <primary sortas="b-prove">prove</primary>
465 </indexterm>
466 </listitem>
467 </varlistentry>
468
[3f8be484]469 <varlistentry id="psed">
470 <term><command>psed</command></term>
471 <listitem>
472 <para>A Perl version of the stream editor <command>sed</command></para>
473 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl psed">
474 <primary sortas="b-psed">psed</primary>
475 </indexterm>
476 </listitem>
477 </varlistentry>
478
479 <varlistentry id="pstruct">
480 <term><command>pstruct</command></term>
481 <listitem>
482 <para>Dumps C structures as generated from <command>cc -g -S</command>
483 stabs</para>
484 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pstruct">
485 <primary sortas="b-pstruct">pstruct</primary>
486 </indexterm>
487 </listitem>
488 </varlistentry>
489
[427015f]490 <varlistentry id="ptar">
491 <term><command>ptar</command></term>
492 <listitem>
493 <para>A <command>tar</command>-like program written in Perl</para>
494 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl ptar">
495 <primary sortas="b-ptar">ptar</primary>
496 </indexterm>
497 </listitem>
498 </varlistentry>
499
500 <varlistentry id="ptardiff">
501 <term><command>ptardiff</command></term>
502 <listitem>
503 <para>A Perl program that compares an extracted archive with an
504 unextracted one</para>
505 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl ptardiff">
506 <primary sortas="b-ptardiff">ptardiff</primary>
507 </indexterm>
508 </listitem>
509 </varlistentry>
510
[2b220db9]511 <varlistentry id="ptargrep">
512 <term><command>ptargrep</command></term>
513 <listitem>
514 <para>A Perl program that applies pattern matching to the contents
515 of files in a tar archive</para>
516 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl ptargrep">
517 <primary sortas="b-ptargrep">ptargrep</primary>
518 </indexterm>
519 </listitem>
520 </varlistentry>
521
[3f8be484]522 <varlistentry id="s2p">
523 <term><command>s2p</command></term>
524 <listitem>
525 <para>Translates <command>sed</command> to Perl</para>
526 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl s2p">
527 <primary sortas="b-s2p">s2p</primary>
528 </indexterm>
529 </listitem>
530 </varlistentry>
531
[427015f]532 <varlistentry id="shasum">
533 <term><command>shasum</command></term>
534 <listitem>
535 <para>Prints or checks SHA checksums</para>
536 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl shasum">
537 <primary sortas="b-shasum">shasum</primary>
538 </indexterm>
539 </listitem>
540 </varlistentry>
541
[3f8be484]542 <varlistentry id="splain">
543 <term><command>splain</command></term>
544 <listitem>
545 <para>Is used to force verbose warning diagnostics in Perl</para>
546 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl splain">
547 <primary sortas="b-splain">splain</primary>
548 </indexterm>
549 </listitem>
550 </varlistentry>
551
552 <varlistentry id="xsubpp">
553 <term><command>xsubpp</command></term>
554 <listitem>
555 <para>Converts Perl XS code into C code</para>
556 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl xsubpp">
557 <primary sortas="b-xsubpp">xsubpp</primary>
558 </indexterm>
559 </listitem>
560 </varlistentry>
561
[2b220db9]562 <varlistentry id="zipdetails">
563 <term><command>zipdetails</command></term>
564 <listitem>
565 <para>Displays details about the internal structure of a Zip file</para>
566 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl zipdetails">
567 <primary sortas="b-zipdetails">zipdetails</primary>
568 </indexterm>
569 </listitem>
570 </varlistentry>
571
[3f8be484]572 </variablelist>
573
574 </sect2>
575
576</sect1>
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