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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
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
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>
32
33<screen os="s4"><userinput>export BUILD_ZLIB=False
34export BUILD_BZIP2=0</userinput></screen>
35
36 <note os="a00">
37 <para>If you are following the boot method you will need to enable the
38 loopback device:</para>
39
40<screen><userinput remap="test">ip link set lo up</userinput></screen>
41 </note>
42
43 <para os="a01">Before starting to configure, create a basic
44 <filename>/etc/hosts</filename> file which will be referenced by one
45 of Perl's configuration files as well as used by the test suite:</para>
46
47<screen os="a02"><userinput remap="test">echo "127.0.0.1 localhost $(hostname)" &gt; /etc/hosts</userinput></screen>
48
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>
53
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" \
60 -Dusethreads -Duseshrplib</userinput></screen>
61
62 <variablelist os="c">
63 <title>The meaning of the configure option:</title>
64
65 <varlistentry os="c1">
66 <term><parameter>-Dman1dir=/usr/share/man/man1 -Dman3dir=/usr/share/man/man3</parameter></term>
67 <listitem>
68 <para>Since Groff is not installed yet,
69 <command>configure.gnu</command> thinks that we do not want
70 man pages for Perl. Issuing these parameters overrides this decision.</para>
71 </listitem>
72 </varlistentry>
73
74 <varlistentry os="c2">
75 <term><parameter>-Dpager="/bin/less -isR"</parameter></term>
76 <listitem>
77 <para>Less has not yet been installed, so by default
78 <command>perldoc</command> will invoke the <command>more</command>
79 program for viewing documentation. This option ensures that it will
80 use <command>less</command> instead.</para>
81 </listitem>
82 </varlistentry>
83
84 <varlistentry os="c3">
85 <term><parameter>-Dusethreads</parameter></term>
86 <listitem>
87 <para>This tells Perl to use threads.</para>
88 </listitem>
89 </varlistentry>
90
91 <varlistentry os="c4">
92 <term><parameter>-Duseshrplib</parameter></term>
93 <listitem>
94 <para>This tells Perl to build a shared libperl.</para>
95 </listitem>
96 </varlistentry>
97
98 </variablelist>
99
100 <para os="d">Compile the package:</para>
101
102<screen os="e"><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
103
104 <para os="h">To test the results, issue:</para>
105
106<screen os="h2"><userinput remap="test">make test</userinput></screen>
107
108 <para os="j">Install the package and remove the variables set previously:</para>
109
110<screen os="k"><userinput>make install
111unset BUILD_ZLIB BUILD_BZIP2</userinput></screen>
112
113 </sect2>
114
115 <sect2 id="contents-perl" role="content">
116 <title>Contents of Perl</title>
117
118 <segmentedlist>
119 <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
120 <segtitle>Installed libraries</segtitle>
121 <segtitle>Installed directory</segtitle>
122
123 <seglistitem>
124 <seg>a2p, c2ph, config_data, corelist, cpan, cpan2dist, cpanp,
125 cpanp-run-perl, enc2xs, find2perl, h2ph, h2xs, instmodsh, json_pp,
126 libnetcfg, perl, perl&perl-version; (link to perl), perlbug,
127 perldoc, perlivp, perlthanks (link to perlbug), piconv, pl2pm, pod2html,
128 pod2latex, pod2man, pod2text, pod2usage, podchecker, podselect, prove,
129 psed (link to s2p), pstruct (link to c2ph), ptar, ptardiff, ptargrep,
130 s2p, shasum, splain, xsubpp, zipdetails</seg>
131 <seg>Several hundred which cannot all be listed here</seg>
132 <seg>/usr/lib/perl5</seg>
133 </seglistitem>
134 </segmentedlist>
135
136 <variablelist>
137 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
138 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
139 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
140
141 <varlistentry id="a2p">
142 <term><command>a2p</command></term>
143 <listitem>
144 <para>Translates awk to Perl</para>
145 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl a2p">
146 <primary sortas="b-a2p">a2p</primary>
147 </indexterm>
148 </listitem>
149 </varlistentry>
150
151 <varlistentry id="c2ph">
152 <term><command>c2ph</command></term>
153 <listitem>
154 <para>Dumps C structures as generated from
155 <command>cc -g -S</command></para>
156 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl c2ph">
157 <primary sortas="b-c2ph">c2ph</primary>
158 </indexterm>
159 </listitem>
160 </varlistentry>
161
162 <varlistentry id="config_data">
163 <term><command>config_data</command></term>
164 <listitem>
165 <para>Queries or changes configuration of Perl modules</para>
166 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl config_data">
167 <primary sortas="b-config_data">config_data</primary>
168 </indexterm>
169 </listitem>
170 </varlistentry>
171
172 <varlistentry id="corelist">
173 <term><command>corelist</command></term>
174 <listitem>
175 <para>A commandline frontend to Module::CoreList</para>
176 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl corelist">
177 <primary sortas="b-corelist">corelist</primary>
178 </indexterm>
179 </listitem>
180 </varlistentry>
181
182 <varlistentry id="cpan">
183 <term><command>cpan</command></term>
184 <listitem>
185 <para>Shell script that provides a command interface to CPAN.pm</para>
186 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl cpan">
187 <primary sortas="b-cpan">cpan</primary>
188 </indexterm>
189 </listitem>
190 </varlistentry>
191
192 <varlistentry id="cpan2dist">
193 <term><command>cpan2dist</command></term>
194 <listitem>
195 <para>The CPANPLUS distribution creator</para>
196 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl cpan2dist">
197 <primary sortas="b-cpan2dist">cpan2dist</primary>
198 </indexterm>
199 </listitem>
200 </varlistentry>
201
202 <varlistentry id="cpanp">
203 <term><command>cpanp</command></term>
204 <listitem>
205 <para>The CPANPLUS launcher</para>
206 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl cpanp">
207 <primary sortas="b-cpanp">cpanp</primary>
208 </indexterm>
209 </listitem>
210 </varlistentry>
211
212 <varlistentry id="cpanp-run-perl">
213 <term><command>cpanp-run-perl</command></term>
214 <listitem>
215 <para>Perl script that (description needed)</para>
216 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl cpanp-run-perl">
217 <primary sortas="b-cpanp-run-perl">cpanp-run-perl</primary>
218 </indexterm>
219 </listitem>
220 </varlistentry>
221
222 <varlistentry id="enc2xs">
223 <term><command>enc2xs</command></term>
224 <listitem>
225 <para>Builds a Perl extension for the Encode module from either
226 Unicode Character Mappings or Tcl Encoding Files</para>
227 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl enc2xs">
228 <primary sortas="b-enc2xs">enc2xs</primary>
229 </indexterm>
230 </listitem>
231 </varlistentry>
232
233 <varlistentry id="find2perl">
234 <term><command>find2perl</command></term>
235 <listitem>
236 <para>Translates <command>find</command> commands to Perl</para>
237 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl find2perl">
238 <primary sortas="b-find2perl">find2perl</primary>
239 </indexterm>
240 </listitem>
241 </varlistentry>
242
243 <varlistentry id="h2ph">
244 <term><command>h2ph</command></term>
245 <listitem>
246 <para>Converts <filename class="extension">.h</filename> C header
247 files to <filename class="extension">.ph</filename> Perl header
248 files</para>
249 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl h2ph">
250 <primary sortas="b-h2ph">h2ph</primary>
251 </indexterm>
252 </listitem>
253 </varlistentry>
254
255 <varlistentry id="h2xs">
256 <term><command>h2xs</command></term>
257 <listitem>
258 <para>Converts <filename class="extension">.h</filename> C header
259 files to Perl extensions</para>
260 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl h2xs">
261 <primary sortas="b-h2xs">h2xs</primary>
262 </indexterm>
263 </listitem>
264 </varlistentry>
265
266 <varlistentry id="instmodsh">
267 <term><command>instmodsh</command></term>
268 <listitem>
269 <para>A shell script for examining installed Perl modules,
270 and can even create a tarball from an installed module</para>
271 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl instmodsh">
272 <primary sortas="b-instmodsh">instmodsh</primary>
273 </indexterm>
274 </listitem>
275 </varlistentry>
276
277 <varlistentry id="json_pp">
278 <term><command>json_pp</command></term>
279 <listitem>
280 <para>Converts data between certain input and output formats</para>
281 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl json_pp">
282 <primary sortas="b-json_pp">json_pp</primary>
283 </indexterm>
284 </listitem>
285 </varlistentry>
286
287 <varlistentry id="libnetcfg">
288 <term><command>libnetcfg</command></term>
289 <listitem>
290 <para>Can be used to configure the
291 <filename class="libraryfile">libnet</filename></para>
292 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl libnetcfg">
293 <primary sortas="b-libnetcfg">libnetcfg</primary>
294 </indexterm>
295 </listitem>
296 </varlistentry>
297
298 <varlistentry id="perl">
299 <term><command>perl</command></term>
300 <listitem>
301 <para>Combines some of the best features of C, <command>sed</command>,
302 <command>awk</command> and <command>sh</command> into a single
303 swiss-army-knife language</para>
304 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perl">
305 <primary sortas="b-perl">perl</primary>
306 </indexterm>
307 </listitem>
308 </varlistentry>
309
310 <varlistentry id="perl-version">
311 <term><command>perl&perl-version;</command></term>
312 <listitem>
313 <para>A hard link to <command>perl</command></para>
314 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perl-version">
315 <primary sortas="b-perl&perl-version;">perl&perl-version;</primary>
316 </indexterm>
317 </listitem>
318 </varlistentry>
319
320 <varlistentry id="perlbug">
321 <term><command>perlbug</command></term>
322 <listitem>
323 <para>Used to generate bug reports about Perl, or the modules that come
324 with it, and mail them</para>
325 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perlbug">
326 <primary sortas="b-perlbug">perlbug</primary>
327 </indexterm>
328 </listitem>
329 </varlistentry>
330
331 <varlistentry id="perldoc">
332 <term><command>perldoc</command></term>
333 <listitem>
334 <para>Displays a piece of documentation in pod format that is embedded
335 in the Perl installation tree or in a Perl script</para>
336 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perldoc">
337 <primary sortas="b-perldoc">perldoc</primary>
338 </indexterm>
339 </listitem>
340 </varlistentry>
341
342 <varlistentry id="perlivp">
343 <term><command>perlivp</command></term>
344 <listitem>
345 <para>The Perl Installation Verification Procedure; it can be used to
346 verify that Perl and its libraries have been installed
347 correctly</para>
348 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perlivp">
349 <primary sortas="b-perlivp">perlivp</primary>
350 </indexterm>
351 </listitem>
352 </varlistentry>
353
354 <varlistentry id="perlthanks">
355 <term><command>perlthanks</command></term>
356 <listitem>
357 <para>Used to generate thank you messages to mail to the Perl
358 developers</para>
359 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perlthanks">
360 <primary sortas="b-perlthanks">perlthanks</primary>
361 </indexterm>
362 </listitem>
363 </varlistentry>
364
365 <varlistentry id="piconv">
366 <term><command>piconv</command></term>
367 <listitem>
368 <para>A Perl version of the character encoding converter
369 <command>iconv</command></para>
370 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl piconv">
371 <primary sortas="b-piconv">piconv</primary>
372 </indexterm>
373 </listitem>
374 </varlistentry>
375
376 <varlistentry id="pl2pm">
377 <term><command>pl2pm</command></term>
378 <listitem>
379 <para>A rough tool for converting Perl4
380 <filename class="extension">.pl</filename> files to Perl5
381 <filename class="extension">.pm</filename> modules</para>
382 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pl2pm">
383 <primary sortas="b-pl2pm">pl2pm</primary>
384 </indexterm>
385 </listitem>
386 </varlistentry>
387
388 <varlistentry id="pod2html">
389 <term><command>pod2html</command></term>
390 <listitem>
391 <para>Converts files from pod format to HTML format</para>
392 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pod2html">
393 <primary sortas="b-pod2html">pod2html</primary>
394 </indexterm>
395 </listitem>
396 </varlistentry>
397
398 <varlistentry id="pod2latex">
399 <term><command>pod2latex</command></term>
400 <listitem>
401 <para>Converts files from pod format to LaTeX format</para>
402 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pod2latex">
403 <primary sortas="b-pod2latex">pod2latex</primary>
404 </indexterm>
405 </listitem>
406 </varlistentry>
407
408 <varlistentry id="pod2man">
409 <term><command>pod2man</command></term>
410 <listitem>
411 <para>Converts pod data to formatted *roff input</para>
412 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pod2man">
413 <primary sortas="b-pod2man">pod2man</primary>
414 </indexterm>
415 </listitem>
416 </varlistentry>
417
418 <varlistentry id="pod2text">
419 <term><command>pod2text</command></term>
420 <listitem>
421 <para>Converts pod data to formatted ASCII text</para>
422 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pod2text">
423 <primary sortas="b-pod2text">pod2text</primary>
424 </indexterm>
425 </listitem>
426 </varlistentry>
427
428 <varlistentry id="pod2usage">
429 <term><command>pod2usage</command></term>
430 <listitem>
431 <para>Prints usage messages from embedded pod docs in files</para>
432 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pod2usage">
433 <primary sortas="b-pod2usage">pod2usage</primary>
434 </indexterm>
435 </listitem>
436 </varlistentry>
437
438 <varlistentry id="podchecker">
439 <term><command>podchecker</command></term>
440 <listitem>
441 <para>Checks the syntax of pod format documentation files</para>
442 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl podchecker">
443 <primary sortas="b-podchecker">podchecker</primary>
444 </indexterm>
445 </listitem>
446 </varlistentry>
447
448 <varlistentry id="podselect">
449 <term><command>podselect</command></term>
450 <listitem>
451 <para>Displays selected sections of pod documentation</para>
452 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl podselect">
453 <primary sortas="b-podselect">podselect</primary>
454 </indexterm>
455 </listitem>
456 </varlistentry>
457
458 <varlistentry id="prove">
459 <term><command>prove</command></term>
460 <listitem>
461 <para>A command-line tool for running tests against Test::Harness</para>
462 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl prove">
463 <primary sortas="b-prove">prove</primary>
464 </indexterm>
465 </listitem>
466 </varlistentry>
467
468 <varlistentry id="psed">
469 <term><command>psed</command></term>
470 <listitem>
471 <para>A Perl version of the stream editor <command>sed</command></para>
472 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl psed">
473 <primary sortas="b-psed">psed</primary>
474 </indexterm>
475 </listitem>
476 </varlistentry>
477
478 <varlistentry id="pstruct">
479 <term><command>pstruct</command></term>
480 <listitem>
481 <para>Dumps C structures as generated from <command>cc -g -S</command>
482 stabs</para>
483 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pstruct">
484 <primary sortas="b-pstruct">pstruct</primary>
485 </indexterm>
486 </listitem>
487 </varlistentry>
488
489 <varlistentry id="ptar">
490 <term><command>ptar</command></term>
491 <listitem>
492 <para>A <command>tar</command>-like program written in Perl</para>
493 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl ptar">
494 <primary sortas="b-ptar">ptar</primary>
495 </indexterm>
496 </listitem>
497 </varlistentry>
498
499 <varlistentry id="ptardiff">
500 <term><command>ptardiff</command></term>
501 <listitem>
502 <para>A Perl program that compares an extracted archive with an
503 unextracted one</para>
504 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl ptardiff">
505 <primary sortas="b-ptardiff">ptardiff</primary>
506 </indexterm>
507 </listitem>
508 </varlistentry>
509
510 <varlistentry id="ptargrep">
511 <term><command>ptargrep</command></term>
512 <listitem>
513 <para>A Perl program that applies pattern matching to the contents
514 of files in a tar archive</para>
515 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl ptargrep">
516 <primary sortas="b-ptargrep">ptargrep</primary>
517 </indexterm>
518 </listitem>
519 </varlistentry>
520
521 <varlistentry id="s2p">
522 <term><command>s2p</command></term>
523 <listitem>
524 <para>Translates <command>sed</command> to Perl</para>
525 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl s2p">
526 <primary sortas="b-s2p">s2p</primary>
527 </indexterm>
528 </listitem>
529 </varlistentry>
530
531 <varlistentry id="shasum">
532 <term><command>shasum</command></term>
533 <listitem>
534 <para>Prints or checks SHA checksums</para>
535 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl shasum">
536 <primary sortas="b-shasum">shasum</primary>
537 </indexterm>
538 </listitem>
539 </varlistentry>
540
541 <varlistentry id="splain">
542 <term><command>splain</command></term>
543 <listitem>
544 <para>Is used to force verbose warning diagnostics in Perl</para>
545 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl splain">
546 <primary sortas="b-splain">splain</primary>
547 </indexterm>
548 </listitem>
549 </varlistentry>
550
551 <varlistentry id="xsubpp">
552 <term><command>xsubpp</command></term>
553 <listitem>
554 <para>Converts Perl XS code into C code</para>
555 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl xsubpp">
556 <primary sortas="b-xsubpp">xsubpp</primary>
557 </indexterm>
558 </listitem>
559 </varlistentry>
560
561 <varlistentry id="zipdetails">
562 <term><command>zipdetails</command></term>
563 <listitem>
564 <para>Displays details about the internal structure of a Zip file</para>
565 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl zipdetails">
566 <primary sortas="b-zipdetails">zipdetails</primary>
567 </indexterm>
568 </listitem>
569 </varlistentry>
570
571 </variablelist>
572
573 </sect2>
574
575</sect1>
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