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[6bef17d]1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
[aa18ac0]2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
[6bef17d]4 <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
5 %general-entities;
6]>
7
8<sect1 id="ch-system-temp-perl" role="wrap">
9 <?dbhtml filename="temp-perl.html"?>
10
11 <title>Temporary Perl-&perl-version;</title>
12
13 <indexterm zone="ch-system-temp-perl">
14 <primary sortas="a-Perl">Perl</primary>
15 <secondary>temporary tools</secondary>
16 </indexterm>
17
[dabbced]18 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
[6bef17d]19 href="../../final-system/common/perl.xml"
20 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@role='package'])"/>
21
22 <sect2 role="installation">
23 <title>Installation of Perl</title>
24
[d5cb735]25 <note os="a">
26 <para>Technically this package installation should be part of
27 <xref linkend="chapter-temp-system"/>, but due to problems
28 cross-compiling Perl we will install it here instead.</para>
29 </note>
30
[f698c15d]31 <para os="s1">Change a hardcoded path from
32 <filename class="directory">/usr/include</filename> to
33 <filename class="directory">/tools/include</filename>:</para>
[6bef17d]34
[c5c8ee8]35<screen os="s2"><userinput>sed -i 's@/usr/include@/tools/include@g' ext/Errno/Errno_pm.PL</userinput></screen>
36
[1532fcd]37<para os="c">Prepare Temporary Perl for compilation:</para>
[c5c8ee8]38
39<screen os="d"><userinput>./configure.gnu --prefix=/tools -Dcc="gcc"</userinput></screen>
[76cf100]40
41 <variablelist os="e">
[6bef17d]42 <title>The meaning of the configure option:</title>
43
44 <varlistentry>
[4e1dce4]45 <term><parameter>-Dcc="gcc"</parameter></term>
[6bef17d]46 <listitem>
[4e1dce4]47 <para>Tells Perl to use <command>gcc</command> instead of the
48 default <command>cc</command>.</para>
[6bef17d]49 </listitem>
50 </varlistentry>
51
52 </variablelist>
53
[4e1dce4]54 <para os="f">Compile the package:</para>
[6bef17d]55
[369ec62]56<screen os="g"><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
[6bef17d]57
[6c4e93e]58 <para os="h">Although Perl comes with a test suite, it is not recommended
[4e1dce4]59 to run it at this point, as this Perl installation is only temporary. The
60 test suite can be run later in this chapter if desired.</para>
[6bef17d]61
[4e1dce4]62 <para os="i">Install the package:</para>
[6c4e93e]63
[369ec62]64<screen os="j"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
[6bef17d]65
[a22d9a5]66 <para os="k">Finally, create a necessary symlink:</para>
67
68<screen os="l"><userinput>ln -sfv /tools/bin/perl /usr/bin</userinput></screen>
69
[6bef17d]70 </sect2>
71
72 <sect2 role="content">
73 <title/>
74
75 <para>Details on this package are located in <xref
76 linkend="contents-perl" role="."/></para>
77
78 </sect2>
79
80</sect1>
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