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  <title>Temporary Perl-&perl-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="ch-system-temp-perl">
    <primary sortas="a-Perl">Perl</primary>
    <secondary>temporary tools</secondary>
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  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of Perl</title>

    <para os="a">First adapt some hard-wired paths to the C library by applying
    the following patch:</para>

<screen os="b"><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&perl-libc-patch;</userinput></screen>

<para os="c">Prepare Perl for compilation (make sure to get the 'Data/Dumper
Fcntl IO POSIX' part of the command correct&mdash;they are all
letters):</para>

<screen os="d"><userinput>./configure.gnu --prefix=/tools \
   -Dstatic_ext='Data/Dumper IO Fcntl POSIX' -Dcc="gcc"</userinput></screen>

    <variablelist os="e">
      <title>The meaning of the configure option:</title>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><parameter>-Dstatic_ext='Data/Dumper IO Fcntl POSIX'</parameter></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>This tells Perl to build the minimum set of static
          extensions needed for installing and testing the Glibc and
          Coreutils packages later in this chapter.</para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  <para os="f">Now we are ready to make our perl utilities:</para>

<screen os="g"><userinput>make</userinput></screen>

  <para os="h">Although Perl comes with a test suite, it is not recommended
  to run it at this point. Only part of Perl was built and running
  <command>make test</command> now will cause the rest of Perl to be built
  as well, which is unnecessary at this point. The test suite can be run
  later in this chapter if desired.</para>

    <para os="i">Install these tools and their libraries:</para>

<screen os="j"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>

    <para os="k">Finally, create a necessary symlink:</para>

<screen os="l"><userinput>ln -sv /tools/bin/perl /usr/bin</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="content">
    <title/>

    <para>Details on this package are located in <xref
    linkend="contents-perl" role="."/></para>

  </sect2>

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