%general-entities; ]> Perl By default, Perl's Compress::Raw::Zlib and Compress::Raw::Bzip2 modules build and link against internal copies of Zlib and Bzip2. The following command will make Perl use the system-installed copies of these libraries: export BUILD_ZLIB=False export BUILD_BZIP2=0 If you are following the boot method you will need to enable the loopback device: ip link set lo up Before starting to configure, create a basic /etc/hosts file which will be referenced by one of Perl's configuration files as well as used by the test suite: echo "127.0.0.1 localhost $(hostname)" > /etc/hosts To have full control over the way Perl is set up, you can run the interactive Configure script and hand-pick the way this package is built. If you prefer instead to use the defaults that Perl auto-detects, prepare Perl for compilation with: ./configure.gnu \ --prefix=/usr \ -Dvendorprefix=/usr \ -Dman1dir=/usr/share/man/man1 \ -Dman3dir=/usr/share/man/man3 \ -Dpager="/bin/less -isR" \ -Dusethreads -Duseshrplib -Dman1dir=/usr/share/man/man1 -Dman3dir=/usr/share/man/man3 Since Groff is not installed yet, configure.gnu thinks that we do not want man pages for Perl. Issuing these parameters overrides this decision. -Dpager="/bin/less -isR" Less has not yet been installed, so by default perldoc will invoke the more program for viewing documentation. This option ensures that it will use less instead. -Dusethreads This tells Perl to use threads. -Duseshrplib This tells Perl to build a shared libperl. Compile the package: make To test the results, issue: make test Install the package and remove the variables set previously: make install unset BUILD_ZLIB BUILD_BZIP2 Installed programs Installed libraries Installed directory a2p, c2ph, config_data, corelist, cpan, cpan2dist, cpanp, cpanp-run-perl, enc2xs, find2perl, h2ph, h2xs, instmodsh, json_pp, libnetcfg, perl, perl&perl-version; (link to perl), perlbug, perldoc, perlivp, perlthanks (link to perlbug), piconv, pl2pm, pod2html, pod2latex, pod2man, pod2text, pod2usage, podchecker, podselect, prove, psed (link to s2p), pstruct (link to c2ph), ptar, ptardiff, ptargrep, s2p, shasum, splain, xsubpp, zipdetails Several hundred which cannot all be listed here /usr/lib/perl5 Short Descriptions a2p Translates awk to Perl a2p c2ph Dumps C structures as generated from cc -g -S c2ph config_data Queries or changes configuration of Perl modules config_data corelist A commandline frontend to Module::CoreList corelist cpan Shell script that provides a command interface to CPAN.pm cpan cpan2dist The CPANPLUS distribution creator cpan2dist cpanp The CPANPLUS launcher cpanp cpanp-run-perl Perl script that (description needed) cpanp-run-perl enc2xs Builds a Perl extension for the Encode module from either Unicode Character Mappings or Tcl Encoding Files enc2xs find2perl Translates find commands to Perl find2perl h2ph Converts .h C header files to .ph Perl header files h2ph h2xs Converts .h C header files to Perl extensions h2xs instmodsh A shell script for examining installed Perl modules, and can even create a tarball from an installed module instmodsh json_pp Converts data between certain input and output formats json_pp libnetcfg Can be used to configure the libnet libnetcfg perl Combines some of the best features of C, sed, awk and sh into a single swiss-army-knife language perl perl&perl-version; A hard link to perl perl&perl-version; perlbug Used to generate bug reports about Perl, or the modules that come with it, and mail them perlbug perldoc Displays a piece of documentation in pod format that is embedded in the Perl installation tree or in a Perl script perldoc perlivp The Perl Installation Verification Procedure; it can be used to verify that Perl and its libraries have been installed correctly perlivp perlthanks Used to generate thank you messages to mail to the Perl developers perlthanks piconv A Perl version of the character encoding converter iconv piconv pl2pm A rough tool for converting Perl4 .pl files to Perl5 .pm modules pl2pm pod2html Converts files from pod format to HTML format pod2html pod2latex Converts files from pod format to LaTeX format pod2latex pod2man Converts pod data to formatted *roff input pod2man pod2text Converts pod data to formatted ASCII text pod2text pod2usage Prints usage messages from embedded pod docs in files pod2usage podchecker Checks the syntax of pod format documentation files podchecker podselect Displays selected sections of pod documentation podselect prove A command-line tool for running tests against Test::Harness prove psed A Perl version of the stream editor sed psed pstruct Dumps C structures as generated from cc -g -S stabs pstruct ptar A tar-like program written in Perl ptar ptardiff A Perl program that compares an extracted archive with an unextracted one ptardiff ptargrep A Perl program that applies pattern matching to the contents of files in a tar archive ptargrep s2p Translates sed to Perl s2p shasum Prints or checks SHA checksums shasum splain Is used to force verbose warning diagnostics in Perl splain xsubpp Converts Perl XS code into C code xsubpp zipdetails Displays details about the internal structure of a Zip file zipdetails