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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-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
18 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
19 href="../../final-system/common/perl.xml"
20 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@role='package'])"/>
21
22 <sect2 role="installation">
23 <title>Installation of Perl</title>
24
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
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>
34
35<screen os="s2"><userinput>sed -i 's@/usr/include@/tools/include@g' ext/Errno/Errno_pm.PL</userinput></screen>
36
37<para os="c">Prepare Temporary Perl for compilation:</para>
38
39<screen os="d"><userinput>./configure.gnu --prefix=/tools -Dcc="gcc"</userinput></screen>
40
41 <variablelist os="e">
42 <title>The meaning of the configure option:</title>
43
44 <varlistentry>
45 <term><parameter>-Dcc="gcc"</parameter></term>
46 <listitem>
47 <para>Tells Perl to use <command>gcc</command> instead of the
48 default <command>cc</command>.</para>
49 </listitem>
50 </varlistentry>
51
52 </variablelist>
53
54 <para os="f">Compile the package:</para>
55
56<screen os="g"><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
57
58 <para os="h">Although Perl comes with a test suite, it is not recommended
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>
61
62 <para os="i">Install the package:</para>
63
64<screen os="j"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
65
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
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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