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Add a patch to perl that fixes a issue with GCC 4.2.0

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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="p1">The following patch causes makedepend.sh to also remove
29 <literal>&lt;command-line&gt;</literal> as well as
30 <literal>&lt;command line&gt;</literal>:</para>
31
32<screen os="p2"><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&perl-gcc42_fix-patch;</userinput></screen>
33
34 <para os="s1">The following sed causes <filename>DynaLoader.a</filename>
35 to be built with -fPIC so it can be linked into a shared library
36 later:</para>
37
38<screen os="s2"><userinput>sed -i -e "s@pldlflags=''@pldlflags=\"\$cccdlflags\"@g" \
39 -e "s@static_target='static'@static_target='static_pic'@g" Makefile.SH</userinput></screen>
40
41 <note os="a00">
42 <para>If you are following the boot method you will need to enable the
43 loopback device as well as set a hostname for some of the tests:</para>
44
45 <screen><userinput>ip link set lo up
46hostname clfs</userinput></screen>
47 </note>
48
49 <para os="a01">Before starting to configure, create a basic
50 <filename>/etc/hosts</filename> file which will be referenced in one
51 of Perl's configuration files as well as being used used by the testsuite
52 if you run that:</para>
53
54<screen os="a02"><userinput>echo "127.0.0.1 localhost $(hostname)" &gt; /etc/hosts</userinput></screen>
55
56 <para os="a">To have full control over the way Perl is set up, you can
57 run the interactive <command>Configure</command> script and hand-pick
58 the way this package is built. If you prefer instead to use the defaults
59 that Perl auto-detects, prepare Perl for compilation with:</para>
60
61<screen os="b"><userinput>./configure.gnu --prefix=/usr \
62 -Dman1dir=/usr/share/man/man1 \
63 -Dman3dir=/usr/share/man/man3 \
64 -Dpager="/bin/less -isR" \
65 -Dusethreads</userinput></screen>
66
67 <variablelist os="c">
68 <title>The meaning of the configure option:</title>
69
70 <varlistentry os="c1">
71 <term><parameter>-Dpager="/bin/less -isR"</parameter></term>
72 <listitem>
73 <para>This corrects an error in the way that <command>perldoc</command>
74 invokes the <command>less</command> program.</para>
75 </listitem>
76 </varlistentry>
77 <varlistentry os="c2">
78 <term><parameter>-Dman1dir=/usr/share/man/man1 -Dman3dir=/usr/share/man/man3</parameter></term>
79 <listitem>
80 <para>Since Groff is not installed yet,
81 <command>configure.gnu</command> thinks that we do not want
82 man pages for Perl. Issuing these parameters overrides this decision.</para>
83 </listitem>
84 </varlistentry>
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>
91 </variablelist>
92
93 <para os="d">Compile the package:</para>
94
95<screen os="e"><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
96
97 <para os="h">To test the results, issue:
98 <userinput>make test</userinput>.</para>
99
100 <para os="j">Install the package:</para>
101
102<screen os="k"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
103
104 </sect2>
105
106 <sect2 id="contents-perl" role="content">
107 <title>Contents of Perl</title>
108
109 <segmentedlist>
110 <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
111 <segtitle>Installed libraries</segtitle>
112
113 <seglistitem>
114 <seg>a2p, c2ph, cpan, dprofpp, enc2xs, find2perl, h2ph, h2xs, instmodsh, libnetcfg,
115 perl, perl&perl-version; (link to perl), perlbug, perlcc, perldoc,
116 perlivp, piconv, pl2pm, pod2html, pod2latex, pod2man, pod2text,
117 pod2usage, podchecker, podselect, prove, psed (link to s2p), pstruct (link
118 to c2ph), s2p, splain, and xsubpp</seg>
119 <seg>Several hundred which cannot all be listed here</seg>
120 </seglistitem>
121 </segmentedlist>
122
123 <variablelist>
124 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
125 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
126 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
127
128 <varlistentry id="a2p">
129 <term><command>a2p</command></term>
130 <listitem>
131 <para>Translates awk to Perl</para>
132 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl a2p">
133 <primary sortas="b-a2p">a2p</primary>
134 </indexterm>
135 </listitem>
136 </varlistentry>
137
138 <varlistentry id="c2ph">
139 <term><command>c2ph</command></term>
140 <listitem>
141 <para>Dumps C structures as generated from
142 <command>cc -g -S</command></para>
143 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl c2ph">
144 <primary sortas="b-c2ph">c2ph</primary>
145 </indexterm>
146 </listitem>
147 </varlistentry>
148
149 <varlistentry id="cpan">
150 <term><command>cpan</command></term>
151 <listitem>
152 <para>Shell script that provides a command interface to CPAN.pm</para>
153 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl cpan">
154 <primary sortas="b-cpan">cpan</primary>
155 </indexterm>
156 </listitem>
157 </varlistentry>
158
159 <varlistentry id="dprofpp">
160 <term><command>dprofpp</command></term>
161 <listitem>
162 <para>Displays Perl profile data</para>
163 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl dprofpp">
164 <primary sortas="b-dprofpp">dprofpp</primary>
165 </indexterm>
166 </listitem>
167 </varlistentry>
168
169 <varlistentry id="enc2xs">
170 <term><command>enc2xs</command></term>
171 <listitem>
172 <para>Builds a Perl extension for the Encode module from either
173 Unicode Character Mappings or Tcl Encoding Files</para>
174 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl enc2xs">
175 <primary sortas="b-enc2xs">enc2xs</primary>
176 </indexterm>
177 </listitem>
178 </varlistentry>
179
180 <varlistentry id="find2perl">
181 <term><command>find2perl</command></term>
182 <listitem>
183 <para>Translates <command>find</command> commands to Perl</para>
184 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl find2perl">
185 <primary sortas="b-find2perl">find2perl</primary>
186 </indexterm>
187 </listitem>
188 </varlistentry>
189
190 <varlistentry id="h2ph">
191 <term><command>h2ph</command></term>
192 <listitem>
193 <para>Converts <filename class="extension">.h</filename> C header
194 files to <filename class="extension">.ph</filename> Perl header
195 files</para>
196 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl h2ph">
197 <primary sortas="b-h2ph">h2ph</primary>
198 </indexterm>
199 </listitem>
200 </varlistentry>
201
202 <varlistentry id="h2xs">
203 <term><command>h2xs</command></term>
204 <listitem>
205 <para>Converts <filename class="extension">.h</filename> C header
206 files to Perl extensions</para>
207 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl h2xs">
208 <primary sortas="b-h2xs">h2xs</primary>
209 </indexterm>
210 </listitem>
211 </varlistentry>
212
213 <varlistentry id="libnetcfg">
214 <term><command>libnetcfg</command></term>
215 <listitem>
216 <para>Can be used to configure the
217 <filename class="libraryfile">libnet</filename></para>
218 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl libnetcfg">
219 <primary sortas="b-libnetcfg">libnetcfg</primary>
220 </indexterm>
221 </listitem>
222 </varlistentry>
223
224 <varlistentry id="instmodsh">
225 <term><command>instmodsh</command></term>
226 <listitem>
227 <para>A shell script for examining installed Perl modules,
228 and can even create a tarball from an installed module</para>
229 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl instmodsh">
230 <primary sortas="b-instmodsh">instmodsh</primary>
231 </indexterm>
232 </listitem>
233 </varlistentry>
234
235 <varlistentry id="perl">
236 <term><command>perl</command></term>
237 <listitem>
238 <para>Combines some of the best features of C, <command>sed</command>,
239 <command>awk</command> and <command>sh</command> into a single
240 swiss-army-knife language</para>
241 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perl">
242 <primary sortas="b-perl">perl</primary>
243 </indexterm>
244 </listitem>
245 </varlistentry>
246
247 <varlistentry id="perl-version">
248 <term><command>perl&perl-version;</command></term>
249 <listitem>
250 <para>A hard link to <command>perl</command></para>
251 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perl-version">
252 <primary sortas="b-perl&perl-version;">perl&perl-version;</primary>
253 </indexterm>
254 </listitem>
255 </varlistentry>
256
257 <varlistentry id="perlbug">
258 <term><command>perlbug</command></term>
259 <listitem>
260 <para>Used to generate bug reports about Perl, or the modules that come
261 with it, and mail them</para>
262 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perlbug">
263 <primary sortas="b-perlbug">perlbug</primary>
264 </indexterm>
265 </listitem>
266 </varlistentry>
267
268 <varlistentry id="perlcc">
269 <term><command>perlcc</command></term>
270 <listitem>
271 <para>Generates executables from Perl programs</para>
272 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perlcc">
273 <primary sortas="b-perlcc">perlcc</primary>
274 </indexterm>
275 </listitem>
276 </varlistentry>
277
278 <varlistentry id="perldoc">
279 <term><command>perldoc</command></term>
280 <listitem>
281 <para>Displays a piece of documentation in pod format that is embedded
282 in the Perl installation tree or in a Perl script</para>
283 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perldoc">
284 <primary sortas="b-perldoc">perldoc</primary>
285 </indexterm>
286 </listitem>
287 </varlistentry>
288
289 <varlistentry id="perlivp">
290 <term><command>perlivp</command></term>
291 <listitem>
292 <para>The Perl Installation Verification Procedure; it can be used to
293 verify that Perl and its libraries have been installed
294 correctly</para>
295 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perlivp">
296 <primary sortas="b-perlivp">perlivp</primary>
297 </indexterm>
298 </listitem>
299 </varlistentry>
300
301 <varlistentry id="piconv">
302 <term><command>piconv</command></term>
303 <listitem>
304 <para>A Perl version of the character encoding converter
305 <command>iconv</command></para>
306 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl piconv">
307 <primary sortas="b-piconv">piconv</primary>
308 </indexterm>
309 </listitem>
310 </varlistentry>
311
312 <varlistentry id="pl2pm">
313 <term><command>pl2pm</command></term>
314 <listitem>
315 <para>A rough tool for converting Perl4
316 <filename class="extension">.pl</filename> files to Perl5
317 <filename class="extension">.pm</filename> modules</para>
318 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pl2pm">
319 <primary sortas="b-pl2pm">pl2pm</primary>
320 </indexterm>
321 </listitem>
322 </varlistentry>
323
324 <varlistentry id="pod2html">
325 <term><command>pod2html</command></term>
326 <listitem>
327 <para>Converts files from pod format to HTML format</para>
328 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pod2html">
329 <primary sortas="b-pod2html">pod2html</primary>
330 </indexterm>
331 </listitem>
332 </varlistentry>
333
334 <varlistentry id="pod2latex">
335 <term><command>pod2latex</command></term>
336 <listitem>
337 <para>Converts files from pod format to LaTeX format</para>
338 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pod2latex">
339 <primary sortas="b-pod2latex">pod2latex</primary>
340 </indexterm>
341 </listitem>
342 </varlistentry>
343
344 <varlistentry id="pod2man">
345 <term><command>pod2man</command></term>
346 <listitem>
347 <para>Converts pod data to formatted *roff input</para>
348 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pod2man">
349 <primary sortas="b-pod2man">pod2man</primary>
350 </indexterm>
351 </listitem>
352 </varlistentry>
353
354 <varlistentry id="pod2text">
355 <term><command>pod2text</command></term>
356 <listitem>
357 <para>Converts pod data to formatted ASCII text</para>
358 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pod2text">
359 <primary sortas="b-pod2text">pod2text</primary>
360 </indexterm>
361 </listitem>
362 </varlistentry>
363
364 <varlistentry id="pod2usage">
365 <term><command>pod2usage</command></term>
366 <listitem>
367 <para>Prints usage messages from embedded pod docs in files</para>
368 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pod2usage">
369 <primary sortas="b-pod2usage">pod2usage</primary>
370 </indexterm>
371 </listitem>
372 </varlistentry>
373
374 <varlistentry id="podchecker">
375 <term><command>podchecker</command></term>
376 <listitem>
377 <para>Checks the syntax of pod format documentation files</para>
378 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl podchecker">
379 <primary sortas="b-podchecker">podchecker</primary>
380 </indexterm>
381 </listitem>
382 </varlistentry>
383
384 <varlistentry id="podselect">
385 <term><command>podselect</command></term>
386 <listitem>
387 <para>Displays selected sections of pod documentation</para>
388 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl podselect">
389 <primary sortas="b-podselect">podselect</primary>
390 </indexterm>
391 </listitem>
392 </varlistentry>
393
394 <varlistentry id="prove">
395 <term><command>prove</command></term>
396 <listitem>
397 <para>A command-line tool for running tests against Test::Harness</para>
398 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl prove">
399 <primary sortas="b-prove">prove</primary>
400 </indexterm>
401 </listitem>
402 </varlistentry>
403
404 <varlistentry id="psed">
405 <term><command>psed</command></term>
406 <listitem>
407 <para>A Perl version of the stream editor <command>sed</command></para>
408 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl psed">
409 <primary sortas="b-psed">psed</primary>
410 </indexterm>
411 </listitem>
412 </varlistentry>
413
414 <varlistentry id="pstruct">
415 <term><command>pstruct</command></term>
416 <listitem>
417 <para>Dumps C structures as generated from <command>cc -g -S</command>
418 stabs</para>
419 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pstruct">
420 <primary sortas="b-pstruct">pstruct</primary>
421 </indexterm>
422 </listitem>
423 </varlistentry>
424
425 <varlistentry id="s2p">
426 <term><command>s2p</command></term>
427 <listitem>
428 <para>Translates <command>sed</command> to Perl</para>
429 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl s2p">
430 <primary sortas="b-s2p">s2p</primary>
431 </indexterm>
432 </listitem>
433 </varlistentry>
434
435 <varlistentry id="splain">
436 <term><command>splain</command></term>
437 <listitem>
438 <para>Is used to force verbose warning diagnostics in Perl</para>
439 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl splain">
440 <primary sortas="b-splain">splain</primary>
441 </indexterm>
442 </listitem>
443 </varlistentry>
444
445 <varlistentry id="xsubpp">
446 <term><command>xsubpp</command></term>
447 <listitem>
448 <para>Converts Perl XS code into C code</para>
449 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl xsubpp">
450 <primary sortas="b-xsubpp">xsubpp</primary>
451 </indexterm>
452 </listitem>
453 </varlistentry>
454
455 </variablelist>
456
457 </sect2>
458
459</sect1>
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