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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 module builds and
29 links against its own internal copy of Zlib. The following command will
30 tell it to use the system-installed Zlib:</para>
31
32<screen os="s4"><userinput>sed -i -e '/^BUILD_ZLIB/s/True/False/' \
33 -e '/^INCLUDE/s,\./zlib-src,/usr/include,' \
34 -e '/^LIB/s,\./zlib-src,/usr/lib,' \
35 cpan/Compress-Raw-Zlib/config.in</userinput></screen>
36
37 <note os="a00">
38 <para>If you are following the boot method you will need to enable the
39 loopback device as well as set a hostname for some of the tests:</para>
40
41 <screen os="a01"><userinput remap="test">ip link set lo up
42hostname clfs</userinput></screen>
43 </note>
44
45 <para os="a02">Before starting to configure, create a basic
46 <filename>/etc/hosts</filename> file which will be referenced by one
47 of Perl's configuration files as well as used by the testsuite:</para>
48
49<screen os="a03"><userinput remap="test">echo "127.0.0.1 localhost $(hostname)" &gt; /etc/hosts</userinput></screen>
50
51 <para os="a">To have full control over the way Perl is set up, you can
52 run the interactive <command>Configure</command> script and hand-pick
53 the way this package is built. If you prefer instead to use the defaults
54 that Perl auto-detects, prepare Perl for compilation with:</para>
55
56<screen os="b"><userinput>./configure.gnu --prefix=/usr \
57 -Dvendorprefix=/usr \
58 -Dman1dir=/usr/share/man/man1 \
59 -Dman3dir=/usr/share/man/man3 \
60 -Dpager="/bin/less -isR" \
61 -Dusethreads -Duseshrplib</userinput></screen>
62
63 <variablelist os="c">
64 <title>The meaning of the configure option:</title>
65
66 <varlistentry os="c1">
67 <term><parameter>-Dpager="/bin/less -isR"</parameter></term>
68 <listitem>
69 <para>This corrects an error in the way that <command>perldoc</command>
70 invokes the <command>less</command> program.</para>
71 </listitem>
72 </varlistentry>
73
74 <varlistentry os="c2">
75 <term><parameter>-Dman1dir=/usr/share/man/man1 -Dman3dir=/usr/share/man/man3</parameter></term>
76 <listitem>
77 <para>Since Groff is not installed yet,
78 <command>configure.gnu</command> thinks that we do not want
79 man pages for Perl. Issuing these parameters overrides this decision.</para>
80 </listitem>
81 </varlistentry>
82
83 <varlistentry os="c3">
84 <term><parameter>-Dusethreads</parameter></term>
85 <listitem>
86 <para>This tells Perl to use threads.</para>
87 </listitem>
88 </varlistentry>
89
90 <varlistentry os="c4">
91 <term><parameter>-Duseshrplib</parameter></term>
92 <listitem>
93 <para>This tells Perl to build a shared libperl.</para>
94 </listitem>
95 </varlistentry>
96
97 </variablelist>
98
99 <para os="d">Compile the package:</para>
100
101<screen os="e"><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
102
103 <para os="h">To test the results, issue:</para>
104
105<screen os="h2"><userinput remap="test">make test</userinput></screen>
106
107 <para os="j">Install the package:</para>
108
109<screen os="k"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
110
111 </sect2>
112
113 <sect2 id="contents-perl" role="content">
114 <title>Contents of Perl</title>
115
116 <segmentedlist>
117 <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
118 <segtitle>Installed libraries</segtitle>
119 <segtitle>Installed directory</segtitle>
120
121 <seglistitem>
122 <seg>a2p, c2ph, config_data, corelist, cpan, cpan2dist, cpanp,
123 cpanp-run-perl, enc2xs, find2perl, h2ph, h2xs, instmodsh, json_pp,
124 libnetcfg, perl, perl&perl-version; (link to perl), perlbug,
125 perldoc, perlivp, perlthanks (link to perlbug), piconv, pl2pm, pod2html,
126 pod2latex, pod2man, pod2text, pod2usage, podchecker, podselect, prove,
127 psed (link to s2p), pstruct (link to c2ph), ptar, ptardiff, ptargrep,
128 s2p, shasum, splain, xsubpp, and zipdetails</seg>
129 <seg>Several hundred which cannot all be listed here</seg>
130 <seg>/usr/lib/perl5</seg>
131 </seglistitem>
132 </segmentedlist>
133
134 <variablelist>
135 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
136 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
137 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
138
139 <varlistentry id="a2p">
140 <term><command>a2p</command></term>
141 <listitem>
142 <para>Translates awk to Perl</para>
143 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl a2p">
144 <primary sortas="b-a2p">a2p</primary>
145 </indexterm>
146 </listitem>
147 </varlistentry>
148
149 <varlistentry id="c2ph">
150 <term><command>c2ph</command></term>
151 <listitem>
152 <para>Dumps C structures as generated from
153 <command>cc -g -S</command></para>
154 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl c2ph">
155 <primary sortas="b-c2ph">c2ph</primary>
156 </indexterm>
157 </listitem>
158 </varlistentry>
159
160 <varlistentry id="config_data">
161 <term><command>config_data</command></term>
162 <listitem>
163 <para>Queries or changes configuration of Perl modules</para>
164 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl config_data">
165 <primary sortas="b-config_data">config_data</primary>
166 </indexterm>
167 </listitem>
168 </varlistentry>
169
170 <varlistentry id="corelist">
171 <term><command>corelist</command></term>
172 <listitem>
173 <para>A commandline frontend to Module::CoreList</para>
174 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl corelist">
175 <primary sortas="b-corelist">corelist</primary>
176 </indexterm>
177 </listitem>
178 </varlistentry>
179
180 <varlistentry id="cpan">
181 <term><command>cpan</command></term>
182 <listitem>
183 <para>Shell script that provides a command interface to CPAN.pm</para>
184 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl cpan">
185 <primary sortas="b-cpan">cpan</primary>
186 </indexterm>
187 </listitem>
188 </varlistentry>
189
190 <varlistentry id="cpan2dist">
191 <term><command>cpan2dist</command></term>
192 <listitem>
193 <para>The CPANPLUS distribution creator</para>
194 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl cpan2dist">
195 <primary sortas="b-cpan2dist">cpan2dist</primary>
196 </indexterm>
197 </listitem>
198 </varlistentry>
199
200 <varlistentry id="cpanp">
201 <term><command>cpanp</command></term>
202 <listitem>
203 <para>The CPANPLUS launcher</para>
204 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl cpanp">
205 <primary sortas="b-cpanp">cpanp</primary>
206 </indexterm>
207 </listitem>
208 </varlistentry>
209
210 <varlistentry id="cpanp-run-perl">
211 <term><command>cpanp-run-perl</command></term>
212 <listitem>
213 <para>Perl script that (description needed)</para>
214 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl cpanp-run-perl">
215 <primary sortas="b-cpanp-run-perl">cpanp-run-perl</primary>
216 </indexterm>
217 </listitem>
218 </varlistentry>
219
220 <varlistentry id="enc2xs">
221 <term><command>enc2xs</command></term>
222 <listitem>
223 <para>Builds a Perl extension for the Encode module from either
224 Unicode Character Mappings or Tcl Encoding Files</para>
225 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl enc2xs">
226 <primary sortas="b-enc2xs">enc2xs</primary>
227 </indexterm>
228 </listitem>
229 </varlistentry>
230
231 <varlistentry id="find2perl">
232 <term><command>find2perl</command></term>
233 <listitem>
234 <para>Translates <command>find</command> commands to Perl</para>
235 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl find2perl">
236 <primary sortas="b-find2perl">find2perl</primary>
237 </indexterm>
238 </listitem>
239 </varlistentry>
240
241 <varlistentry id="h2ph">
242 <term><command>h2ph</command></term>
243 <listitem>
244 <para>Converts <filename class="extension">.h</filename> C header
245 files to <filename class="extension">.ph</filename> Perl header
246 files</para>
247 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl h2ph">
248 <primary sortas="b-h2ph">h2ph</primary>
249 </indexterm>
250 </listitem>
251 </varlistentry>
252
253 <varlistentry id="h2xs">
254 <term><command>h2xs</command></term>
255 <listitem>
256 <para>Converts <filename class="extension">.h</filename> C header
257 files to Perl extensions</para>
258 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl h2xs">
259 <primary sortas="b-h2xs">h2xs</primary>
260 </indexterm>
261 </listitem>
262 </varlistentry>
263
264 <varlistentry id="instmodsh">
265 <term><command>instmodsh</command></term>
266 <listitem>
267 <para>A shell script for examining installed Perl modules,
268 and can even create a tarball from an installed module</para>
269 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl instmodsh">
270 <primary sortas="b-instmodsh">instmodsh</primary>
271 </indexterm>
272 </listitem>
273 </varlistentry>
274
275 <varlistentry id="json_pp">
276 <term><command>json_pp</command></term>
277 <listitem>
278 <para>Converts data between certain input and output formats</para>
279 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl json_pp">
280 <primary sortas="b-json_pp">json_pp</primary>
281 </indexterm>
282 </listitem>
283 </varlistentry>
284
285 <varlistentry id="libnetcfg">
286 <term><command>libnetcfg</command></term>
287 <listitem>
288 <para>Can be used to configure the
289 <filename class="libraryfile">libnet</filename></para>
290 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl libnetcfg">
291 <primary sortas="b-libnetcfg">libnetcfg</primary>
292 </indexterm>
293 </listitem>
294 </varlistentry>
295
296 <varlistentry id="perl">
297 <term><command>perl</command></term>
298 <listitem>
299 <para>Combines some of the best features of C, <command>sed</command>,
300 <command>awk</command> and <command>sh</command> into a single
301 swiss-army-knife language</para>
302 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perl">
303 <primary sortas="b-perl">perl</primary>
304 </indexterm>
305 </listitem>
306 </varlistentry>
307
308 <varlistentry id="perl-version">
309 <term><command>perl&perl-version;</command></term>
310 <listitem>
311 <para>A hard link to <command>perl</command></para>
312 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perl-version">
313 <primary sortas="b-perl&perl-version;">perl&perl-version;</primary>
314 </indexterm>
315 </listitem>
316 </varlistentry>
317
318 <varlistentry id="perlbug">
319 <term><command>perlbug</command></term>
320 <listitem>
321 <para>Used to generate bug reports about Perl, or the modules that come
322 with it, and mail them</para>
323 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perlbug">
324 <primary sortas="b-perlbug">perlbug</primary>
325 </indexterm>
326 </listitem>
327 </varlistentry>
328
329 <varlistentry id="perldoc">
330 <term><command>perldoc</command></term>
331 <listitem>
332 <para>Displays a piece of documentation in pod format that is embedded
333 in the Perl installation tree or in a Perl script</para>
334 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perldoc">
335 <primary sortas="b-perldoc">perldoc</primary>
336 </indexterm>
337 </listitem>
338 </varlistentry>
339
340 <varlistentry id="perlivp">
341 <term><command>perlivp</command></term>
342 <listitem>
343 <para>The Perl Installation Verification Procedure; it can be used to
344 verify that Perl and its libraries have been installed
345 correctly</para>
346 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perlivp">
347 <primary sortas="b-perlivp">perlivp</primary>
348 </indexterm>
349 </listitem>
350 </varlistentry>
351
352 <varlistentry id="perlthanks">
353 <term><command>perlthanks</command></term>
354 <listitem>
355 <para>Used to generate thank you messages to mail to the Perl
356 developers</para>
357 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perlthanks">
358 <primary sortas="b-perlthanks">perlthanks</primary>
359 </indexterm>
360 </listitem>
361 </varlistentry>
362
363 <varlistentry id="piconv">
364 <term><command>piconv</command></term>
365 <listitem>
366 <para>A Perl version of the character encoding converter
367 <command>iconv</command></para>
368 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl piconv">
369 <primary sortas="b-piconv">piconv</primary>
370 </indexterm>
371 </listitem>
372 </varlistentry>
373
374 <varlistentry id="pl2pm">
375 <term><command>pl2pm</command></term>
376 <listitem>
377 <para>A rough tool for converting Perl4
378 <filename class="extension">.pl</filename> files to Perl5
379 <filename class="extension">.pm</filename> modules</para>
380 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pl2pm">
381 <primary sortas="b-pl2pm">pl2pm</primary>
382 </indexterm>
383 </listitem>
384 </varlistentry>
385
386 <varlistentry id="pod2html">
387 <term><command>pod2html</command></term>
388 <listitem>
389 <para>Converts files from pod format to HTML format</para>
390 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pod2html">
391 <primary sortas="b-pod2html">pod2html</primary>
392 </indexterm>
393 </listitem>
394 </varlistentry>
395
396 <varlistentry id="pod2latex">
397 <term><command>pod2latex</command></term>
398 <listitem>
399 <para>Converts files from pod format to LaTeX format</para>
400 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pod2latex">
401 <primary sortas="b-pod2latex">pod2latex</primary>
402 </indexterm>
403 </listitem>
404 </varlistentry>
405
406 <varlistentry id="pod2man">
407 <term><command>pod2man</command></term>
408 <listitem>
409 <para>Converts pod data to formatted *roff input</para>
410 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pod2man">
411 <primary sortas="b-pod2man">pod2man</primary>
412 </indexterm>
413 </listitem>
414 </varlistentry>
415
416 <varlistentry id="pod2text">
417 <term><command>pod2text</command></term>
418 <listitem>
419 <para>Converts pod data to formatted ASCII text</para>
420 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pod2text">
421 <primary sortas="b-pod2text">pod2text</primary>
422 </indexterm>
423 </listitem>
424 </varlistentry>
425
426 <varlistentry id="pod2usage">
427 <term><command>pod2usage</command></term>
428 <listitem>
429 <para>Prints usage messages from embedded pod docs in files</para>
430 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pod2usage">
431 <primary sortas="b-pod2usage">pod2usage</primary>
432 </indexterm>
433 </listitem>
434 </varlistentry>
435
436 <varlistentry id="podchecker">
437 <term><command>podchecker</command></term>
438 <listitem>
439 <para>Checks the syntax of pod format documentation files</para>
440 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl podchecker">
441 <primary sortas="b-podchecker">podchecker</primary>
442 </indexterm>
443 </listitem>
444 </varlistentry>
445
446 <varlistentry id="podselect">
447 <term><command>podselect</command></term>
448 <listitem>
449 <para>Displays selected sections of pod documentation</para>
450 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl podselect">
451 <primary sortas="b-podselect">podselect</primary>
452 </indexterm>
453 </listitem>
454 </varlistentry>
455
456 <varlistentry id="prove">
457 <term><command>prove</command></term>
458 <listitem>
459 <para>A command-line tool for running tests against Test::Harness</para>
460 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl prove">
461 <primary sortas="b-prove">prove</primary>
462 </indexterm>
463 </listitem>
464 </varlistentry>
465
466 <varlistentry id="psed">
467 <term><command>psed</command></term>
468 <listitem>
469 <para>A Perl version of the stream editor <command>sed</command></para>
470 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl psed">
471 <primary sortas="b-psed">psed</primary>
472 </indexterm>
473 </listitem>
474 </varlistentry>
475
476 <varlistentry id="pstruct">
477 <term><command>pstruct</command></term>
478 <listitem>
479 <para>Dumps C structures as generated from <command>cc -g -S</command>
480 stabs</para>
481 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pstruct">
482 <primary sortas="b-pstruct">pstruct</primary>
483 </indexterm>
484 </listitem>
485 </varlistentry>
486
487 <varlistentry id="ptar">
488 <term><command>ptar</command></term>
489 <listitem>
490 <para>A <command>tar</command>-like program written in Perl</para>
491 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl ptar">
492 <primary sortas="b-ptar">ptar</primary>
493 </indexterm>
494 </listitem>
495 </varlistentry>
496
497 <varlistentry id="ptardiff">
498 <term><command>ptardiff</command></term>
499 <listitem>
500 <para>A Perl program that compares an extracted archive with an
501 unextracted one</para>
502 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl ptardiff">
503 <primary sortas="b-ptardiff">ptardiff</primary>
504 </indexterm>
505 </listitem>
506 </varlistentry>
507
508 <varlistentry id="ptargrep">
509 <term><command>ptargrep</command></term>
510 <listitem>
511 <para>A Perl program that applies pattern matching to the contents
512 of files in a tar archive</para>
513 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl ptargrep">
514 <primary sortas="b-ptargrep">ptargrep</primary>
515 </indexterm>
516 </listitem>
517 </varlistentry>
518
519 <varlistentry id="s2p">
520 <term><command>s2p</command></term>
521 <listitem>
522 <para>Translates <command>sed</command> to Perl</para>
523 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl s2p">
524 <primary sortas="b-s2p">s2p</primary>
525 </indexterm>
526 </listitem>
527 </varlistentry>
528
529 <varlistentry id="shasum">
530 <term><command>shasum</command></term>
531 <listitem>
532 <para>Prints or checks SHA checksums</para>
533 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl shasum">
534 <primary sortas="b-shasum">shasum</primary>
535 </indexterm>
536 </listitem>
537 </varlistentry>
538
539 <varlistentry id="splain">
540 <term><command>splain</command></term>
541 <listitem>
542 <para>Is used to force verbose warning diagnostics in Perl</para>
543 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl splain">
544 <primary sortas="b-splain">splain</primary>
545 </indexterm>
546 </listitem>
547 </varlistentry>
548
549 <varlistentry id="xsubpp">
550 <term><command>xsubpp</command></term>
551 <listitem>
552 <para>Converts Perl XS code into C code</para>
553 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl xsubpp">
554 <primary sortas="b-xsubpp">xsubpp</primary>
555 </indexterm>
556 </listitem>
557 </varlistentry>
558
559 <varlistentry id="zipdetails">
560 <term><command>zipdetails</command></term>
561 <listitem>
562 <para>Displays details about the internal structure of a Zip file</para>
563 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl zipdetails">
564 <primary sortas="b-zipdetails">zipdetails</primary>
565 </indexterm>
566 </listitem>
567 </varlistentry>
568
569 </variablelist>
570
571 </sect2>
572
573</sect1>
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