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Last change on this file since c70f11b was d10818d, checked in by Joe Ciccone <jciccone@…>, 16 years ago

Add a patch to perl that prevents it from including asm/page.h. This resolves ticket 160 and future problems with kernel headers provided by 2.6.25 and forward.

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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/2003/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 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
26 href="../common/perl.xml"
27 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='p1'])"/>
28
29 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
30 href="../common/perl.xml"
31 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='p2'])"/>
32
33 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
34 href="../common/perl.xml"
35 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='p3'])"/>
36
37 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
38 href="../common/perl.xml"
39 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='p4'])"/>
40
41 <para os="a">First adapt some hard-wired paths to the C library by applying
42 the following patch:</para>
43
44<screen os="b"><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&perl-libc-patch;</userinput></screen>
45
46<para os="c">Prepare Perl for compilation (make sure to get the 'Data/Dumper
47Fcntl IO POSIX' part of the command correct&mdash;they are all
48letters):</para>
49
50<screen os="d"><userinput>./configure.gnu --prefix=/tools \
51 -Dstatic_ext='Data/Dumper IO Fcntl POSIX' -Dcc="gcc"</userinput></screen>
52
53 <variablelist os="e">
54 <title>The meaning of the configure option:</title>
55
56 <varlistentry>
57 <term><parameter>-Dstatic_ext='Data/Dumper IO Fcntl POSIX'</parameter></term>
58 <listitem>
59 <para>This tells Perl to build the minimum set of static
60 extensions needed for installing and testing the Glibc and
61 Coreutils packages later in this chapter.</para>
62 </listitem>
63 </varlistentry>
64
65 </variablelist>
66
67 <para os="f">Now we are ready to make our perl utilities:</para>
68
69<screen os="g"><userinput>make perl utilities</userinput></screen>
70
71 <para os="h">Although Perl comes with a test suite, it is not recommended
72 to run it at this point. Only part of Perl was built and running
73 <command>make test</command> now will cause the rest of Perl to be built
74 as well, which is unnecessary at this point. The test suite can be run
75 later in this chapter if desired.</para>
76
77 <para os="i">Install these tools and their libraries:</para>
78
79<screen os="j"><userinput>cp -v perl pod/pod2man /tools/bin
80install -dv /tools/lib/perl5/&perl-version;
81cp -Rv lib/* /tools/lib/perl5/&perl-version;</userinput></screen>
82
83 <para os="k">Finally, create a necessary symlink:</para>
84
85<screen os="l"><userinput>ln -sv /tools/bin/perl /usr/bin</userinput></screen>
86
87 </sect2>
88
89 <sect2 role="content">
90 <title/>
91
92 <para>Details on this package are located in <xref
93 linkend="contents-perl" role="."/></para>
94
95 </sect2>
96
97</sect1>
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