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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN"
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/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="s1">The following sed causes <filename>DynaLoader.a</filename>
29 to be built with -fPIC so it can be linked into a shared library
30 later:</para>
31
32<screen os="s2"><userinput>sed -i -e "s@pldlflags=''@pldlflags=\"\$cccdlflags\"@g" \
33 -e "s@static_target='static'@static_target='static_pic'@g" Makefile.SH</userinput></screen>
34
35 <note os="a00">
36 <para>If you are following the boot method you will need to enable the
37 loopback device as well as set a hostname for some of the tests:</para>
38
39 <screen><userinput>ip link set lo up
40hostname clfs</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 in one
45 of Perl's configuration files as well as being used used by the testsuite
46 if you run that:</para>
47
48<screen os="a02"><userinput>echo "127.0.0.1 localhost $(hostname)" &gt; /etc/hosts</userinput></screen>
49
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>
54
55<screen os="b"><userinput>./configure.gnu --prefix=/usr \
56 -Dman1dir=/usr/share/man/man1 \
57 -Dman3dir=/usr/share/man/man3 \
58 -Dpager="/bin/less -isR" \
59 -Dusethreads</userinput></screen>
60
61 <variablelist os="c">
62 <title>The meaning of the configure option:</title>
63
64 <varlistentry os="c1">
65 <term><parameter>-Dpager="/bin/less -isR"</parameter></term>
66 <listitem>
67 <para>This corrects an error in the way that <command>perldoc</command>
68 invokes the <command>less</command> program.</para>
69 </listitem>
70 </varlistentry>
71 <varlistentry os="c2">
72 <term><parameter>-Dman1dir=/usr/share/man/man1 -Dman3dir=/usr/share/man/man3</parameter></term>
73 <listitem>
74 <para>Since Groff is not installed yet,
75 <command>configure.gnu</command> thinks that we do not want
76 man pages for Perl. Issuing these parameters overrides this decision.</para>
77 </listitem>
78 </varlistentry>
79 <varlistentry os="c3">
80 <term><parameter>-Dusethreads</parameter></term>
81 <listitem>
82 <para>This tells Perl to use threads.</para>
83 </listitem>
84 </varlistentry>
85 </variablelist>
86
87 <para os="d">Compile the package:</para>
88
89<screen os="e"><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
90
91 <para os="h">To test the results, issue:
92 <userinput>make test</userinput>.</para>
93
94 <para os="j">Install the package:</para>
95
96<screen os="k"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
97
98 </sect2>
99
100 <sect2 id="contents-perl" role="content">
101 <title>Contents of Perl</title>
102
103 <segmentedlist>
104 <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
105 <segtitle>Installed libraries</segtitle>
106
107 <seglistitem>
108 <seg>a2p, c2ph, cpan, dprofpp, enc2xs, find2perl, h2ph, h2xs, instmodsh, libnetcfg,
109 perl, perl&perl-version; (link to perl), perlbug, perlcc, perldoc,
110 perlivp, piconv, pl2pm, pod2html, pod2latex, pod2man, pod2text,
111 pod2usage, podchecker, podselect, prove, psed (link to s2p), pstruct (link
112 to c2ph), s2p, splain, and xsubpp</seg>
113 <seg>Several hundred which cannot all be listed here</seg>
114 </seglistitem>
115 </segmentedlist>
116
117 <variablelist>
118 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
119 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
120 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
121
122 <varlistentry id="a2p">
123 <term><command>a2p</command></term>
124 <listitem>
125 <para>Translates awk to Perl</para>
126 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl a2p">
127 <primary sortas="b-a2p">a2p</primary>
128 </indexterm>
129 </listitem>
130 </varlistentry>
131
132 <varlistentry id="c2ph">
133 <term><command>c2ph</command></term>
134 <listitem>
135 <para>Dumps C structures as generated from
136 <command>cc -g -S</command></para>
137 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl c2ph">
138 <primary sortas="b-c2ph">c2ph</primary>
139 </indexterm>
140 </listitem>
141 </varlistentry>
142
143 <varlistentry id="cpan">
144 <term><command>cpan</command></term>
145 <listitem>
146 <para>Shell script that provides a command interface to CPAN.pm</para>
147 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl cpan">
148 <primary sortas="b-cpan">cpan</primary>
149 </indexterm>
150 </listitem>
151 </varlistentry>
152
153 <varlistentry id="dprofpp">
154 <term><command>dprofpp</command></term>
155 <listitem>
156 <para>Displays Perl profile data</para>
157 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl dprofpp">
158 <primary sortas="b-dprofpp">dprofpp</primary>
159 </indexterm>
160 </listitem>
161 </varlistentry>
162
163 <varlistentry id="enc2xs">
164 <term><command>enc2xs</command></term>
165 <listitem>
166 <para>Builds a Perl extension for the Encode module from either
167 Unicode Character Mappings or Tcl Encoding Files</para>
168 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl enc2xs">
169 <primary sortas="b-enc2xs">enc2xs</primary>
170 </indexterm>
171 </listitem>
172 </varlistentry>
173
174 <varlistentry id="find2perl">
175 <term><command>find2perl</command></term>
176 <listitem>
177 <para>Translates <command>find</command> commands to Perl</para>
178 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl find2perl">
179 <primary sortas="b-find2perl">find2perl</primary>
180 </indexterm>
181 </listitem>
182 </varlistentry>
183
184 <varlistentry id="h2ph">
185 <term><command>h2ph</command></term>
186 <listitem>
187 <para>Converts <filename class="extension">.h</filename> C header
188 files to <filename class="extension">.ph</filename> Perl header
189 files</para>
190 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl h2ph">
191 <primary sortas="b-h2ph">h2ph</primary>
192 </indexterm>
193 </listitem>
194 </varlistentry>
195
196 <varlistentry id="h2xs">
197 <term><command>h2xs</command></term>
198 <listitem>
199 <para>Converts <filename class="extension">.h</filename> C header
200 files to Perl extensions</para>
201 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl h2xs">
202 <primary sortas="b-h2xs">h2xs</primary>
203 </indexterm>
204 </listitem>
205 </varlistentry>
206
207 <varlistentry id="libnetcfg">
208 <term><command>libnetcfg</command></term>
209 <listitem>
210 <para>Can be used to configure the
211 <filename class="libraryfile">libnet</filename></para>
212 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl libnetcfg">
213 <primary sortas="b-libnetcfg">libnetcfg</primary>
214 </indexterm>
215 </listitem>
216 </varlistentry>
217
218 <varlistentry id="instmodsh">
219 <term><command>instmodsh</command></term>
220 <listitem>
221 <para>A shell script for examining installed Perl modules,
222 and can even create a tarball from an installed module</para>
223 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl instmodsh">
224 <primary sortas="b-instmodsh">instmodsh</primary>
225 </indexterm>
226 </listitem>
227 </varlistentry>
228
229 <varlistentry id="perl">
230 <term><command>perl</command></term>
231 <listitem>
232 <para>Combines some of the best features of C, <command>sed</command>,
233 <command>awk</command> and <command>sh</command> into a single
234 swiss-army-knife language</para>
235 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perl">
236 <primary sortas="b-perl">perl</primary>
237 </indexterm>
238 </listitem>
239 </varlistentry>
240
241 <varlistentry id="perl-version">
242 <term><command>perl&perl-version;</command></term>
243 <listitem>
244 <para>A hard link to <command>perl</command></para>
245 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perl-version">
246 <primary sortas="b-perl&perl-version;">perl&perl-version;</primary>
247 </indexterm>
248 </listitem>
249 </varlistentry>
250
251 <varlistentry id="perlbug">
252 <term><command>perlbug</command></term>
253 <listitem>
254 <para>Used to generate bug reports about Perl, or the modules that come
255 with it, and mail them</para>
256 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perlbug">
257 <primary sortas="b-perlbug">perlbug</primary>
258 </indexterm>
259 </listitem>
260 </varlistentry>
261
262 <varlistentry id="perlcc">
263 <term><command>perlcc</command></term>
264 <listitem>
265 <para>Generates executables from Perl programs</para>
266 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perlcc">
267 <primary sortas="b-perlcc">perlcc</primary>
268 </indexterm>
269 </listitem>
270 </varlistentry>
271
272 <varlistentry id="perldoc">
273 <term><command>perldoc</command></term>
274 <listitem>
275 <para>Displays a piece of documentation in pod format that is embedded
276 in the Perl installation tree or in a Perl script</para>
277 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perldoc">
278 <primary sortas="b-perldoc">perldoc</primary>
279 </indexterm>
280 </listitem>
281 </varlistentry>
282
283 <varlistentry id="perlivp">
284 <term><command>perlivp</command></term>
285 <listitem>
286 <para>The Perl Installation Verification Procedure; it can be used to
287 verify that Perl and its libraries have been installed
288 correctly</para>
289 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perlivp">
290 <primary sortas="b-perlivp">perlivp</primary>
291 </indexterm>
292 </listitem>
293 </varlistentry>
294
295 <varlistentry id="piconv">
296 <term><command>piconv</command></term>
297 <listitem>
298 <para>A Perl version of the character encoding converter
299 <command>iconv</command></para>
300 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl piconv">
301 <primary sortas="b-piconv">piconv</primary>
302 </indexterm>
303 </listitem>
304 </varlistentry>
305
306 <varlistentry id="pl2pm">
307 <term><command>pl2pm</command></term>
308 <listitem>
309 <para>A rough tool for converting Perl4
310 <filename class="extension">.pl</filename> files to Perl5
311 <filename class="extension">.pm</filename> modules</para>
312 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pl2pm">
313 <primary sortas="b-pl2pm">pl2pm</primary>
314 </indexterm>
315 </listitem>
316 </varlistentry>
317
318 <varlistentry id="pod2html">
319 <term><command>pod2html</command></term>
320 <listitem>
321 <para>Converts files from pod format to HTML format</para>
322 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pod2html">
323 <primary sortas="b-pod2html">pod2html</primary>
324 </indexterm>
325 </listitem>
326 </varlistentry>
327
328 <varlistentry id="pod2latex">
329 <term><command>pod2latex</command></term>
330 <listitem>
331 <para>Converts files from pod format to LaTeX format</para>
332 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pod2latex">
333 <primary sortas="b-pod2latex">pod2latex</primary>
334 </indexterm>
335 </listitem>
336 </varlistentry>
337
338 <varlistentry id="pod2man">
339 <term><command>pod2man</command></term>
340 <listitem>
341 <para>Converts pod data to formatted *roff input</para>
342 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pod2man">
343 <primary sortas="b-pod2man">pod2man</primary>
344 </indexterm>
345 </listitem>
346 </varlistentry>
347
348 <varlistentry id="pod2text">
349 <term><command>pod2text</command></term>
350 <listitem>
351 <para>Converts pod data to formatted ASCII text</para>
352 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pod2text">
353 <primary sortas="b-pod2text">pod2text</primary>
354 </indexterm>
355 </listitem>
356 </varlistentry>
357
358 <varlistentry id="pod2usage">
359 <term><command>pod2usage</command></term>
360 <listitem>
361 <para>Prints usage messages from embedded pod docs in files</para>
362 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pod2usage">
363 <primary sortas="b-pod2usage">pod2usage</primary>
364 </indexterm>
365 </listitem>
366 </varlistentry>
367
368 <varlistentry id="podchecker">
369 <term><command>podchecker</command></term>
370 <listitem>
371 <para>Checks the syntax of pod format documentation files</para>
372 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl podchecker">
373 <primary sortas="b-podchecker">podchecker</primary>
374 </indexterm>
375 </listitem>
376 </varlistentry>
377
378 <varlistentry id="podselect">
379 <term><command>podselect</command></term>
380 <listitem>
381 <para>Displays selected sections of pod documentation</para>
382 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl podselect">
383 <primary sortas="b-podselect">podselect</primary>
384 </indexterm>
385 </listitem>
386 </varlistentry>
387
388 <varlistentry id="prove">
389 <term><command>prove</command></term>
390 <listitem>
391 <para>A command-line tool for running tests against Test::Harness</para>
392 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl prove">
393 <primary sortas="b-prove">prove</primary>
394 </indexterm>
395 </listitem>
396 </varlistentry>
397
398 <varlistentry id="psed">
399 <term><command>psed</command></term>
400 <listitem>
401 <para>A Perl version of the stream editor <command>sed</command></para>
402 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl psed">
403 <primary sortas="b-psed">psed</primary>
404 </indexterm>
405 </listitem>
406 </varlistentry>
407
408 <varlistentry id="pstruct">
409 <term><command>pstruct</command></term>
410 <listitem>
411 <para>Dumps C structures as generated from <command>cc -g -S</command>
412 stabs</para>
413 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pstruct">
414 <primary sortas="b-pstruct">pstruct</primary>
415 </indexterm>
416 </listitem>
417 </varlistentry>
418
419 <varlistentry id="s2p">
420 <term><command>s2p</command></term>
421 <listitem>
422 <para>Translates <command>sed</command> to Perl</para>
423 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl s2p">
424 <primary sortas="b-s2p">s2p</primary>
425 </indexterm>
426 </listitem>
427 </varlistentry>
428
429 <varlistentry id="splain">
430 <term><command>splain</command></term>
431 <listitem>
432 <para>Is used to force verbose warning diagnostics in Perl</para>
433 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl splain">
434 <primary sortas="b-splain">splain</primary>
435 </indexterm>
436 </listitem>
437 </varlistentry>
438
439 <varlistentry id="xsubpp">
440 <term><command>xsubpp</command></term>
441 <listitem>
442 <para>Converts Perl XS code into C code</para>
443 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl xsubpp">
444 <primary sortas="b-xsubpp">xsubpp</primary>
445 </indexterm>
446 </listitem>
447 </varlistentry>
448
449 </variablelist>
450
451 </sect2>
452
453</sect1>
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