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[3f8be484]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" [
[3f8be484]4 <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
5 %general-entities;
6]>
7
8<sect1 id="ch-system-perl" role="wrap">
9 <?dbhtml filename="perl-64bit.html"?>
10
[9c1db810]11 <title>Perl-&perl-version; 64 Bit</title>
[3f8be484]12
13 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl">
14 <primary sortas="a-Perl">Perl</primary>
15 </indexterm>
16
[dabbced]17 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
[566db8e]18 href="../common/perl.xml"
19 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@role='package'])"/>
[3f8be484]20
21 <sect2 role="installation">
22 <title>Installation of Perl</title>
23
[dabbced]24 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
[ccd51bc]25 href="../common/perl.xml"
26 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='s3'])"/>
27
[e74f725]28<screen os="s4"><userinput>sed -i -e '/^BUILD_ZLIB/s/True/False/' \
29 -e '/^INCLUDE/s,\./zlib-src,/usr/include,' \
30 -e '/^LIB/s,\./zlib-src,/usr/lib64,' \
31 cpan/Compress-Raw-Zlib/config.in</userinput></screen>
[ccd51bc]32
[9682e4d]33 <para os="mp1">Perl does not, by default, know about library directories
34 with names other than <filename class="directory">lib</filename>. The
35 following patch will allow it to install to other directories:</para>
[3f8be484]36
[d10818d]37<screen os="mp2"><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&perl-multilib-patch;</userinput></screen>
[3f8be484]38
[9682e4d]39 <para os="s1">There is a further (possibly cosmetic) anomaly - if we
40 install Perl and then run <command>perl -V</command> it will claim that
41 libc is in <filename class="directory">/lib</filename>. The
42 following sed fixes this, but only takes effect when
43 <command>make install</command> is run:</para>
[3f8be484]44
[9c1db810]45<screen os="s2"><userinput>sed -i "/libc/s@/lib@/lib64@" hints/linux.sh</userinput></screen>
[3f8be484]46
[9682e4d]47 <para os="m2">We still need to tell Perl to actually use <filename class="directory">lib64</filename>:</para>
[3f8be484]48
[e0e40d3]49<screen os="m3"><userinput>echo 'installstyle="lib64/perl5"' >>hints/linux.sh</userinput></screen>
[3f8be484]50
[dabbced]51 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
[3f8be484]52 href="../common/perl.xml"
53 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='a'])"/>
54
[bbf90e8]55<screen os="b"><userinput>./configure.gnu --prefix=/usr \
[42622bd]56 -Dvendorprefix=/usr \
[bbf90e8]57 -Dman1dir=/usr/share/man/man1 \
58 -Dman3dir=/usr/share/man/man3 \
59 -Dpager="/bin/less -isR" \
[3f8be484]60 -Dlibpth="/usr/local/lib64 /lib64 /usr/lib64" \
[c33fed0]61 -Dcc="gcc ${BUILD64}" \
[1da2a84]62 -Dusethreads -Duseshrplib</userinput></screen>
[3f8be484]63
[e0e40d3]64 <variablelist os="m4">
[3f8be484]65 <title>The meaning of the new configure option:</title>
66
67 <varlistentry>
68 <term><parameter>-Dlibpth="/usr/local/lib64 /lib64 /usr/lib64"</parameter></term>
69 <listitem>
70 <para>This tells Perl to link against the 64-bit libraries.</para>
71 </listitem>
72 </varlistentry>
73
[dabbced]74 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
[3f8be484]75 href="../common/perl.xml"
[e0e40d3]76 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='c1'])"/>
77
[dabbced]78 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
[bbf90e8]79 href="../common/perl.xml"
80 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='c2'])"/>
81
[dabbced]82 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
[c33fed0]83 href="../common/perl.xml"
84 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='c3'])"/>
85
[dabbced]86 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
[1da2a84]87 href="../common/perl.xml"
88 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='c4'])"/>
89
[e0e40d3]90 </variablelist>
[3f8be484]91
[dabbced]92 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
[3f8be484]93 href="../common/perl.xml"
94 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='d'])"/>
95
[dabbced]96 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
[3f8be484]97 href="../common/perl.xml"
98 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='e'])"/>
99
[dabbced]100 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
[3f8be484]101 href="../common/perl.xml"
102 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='h'])"/>
103
[686839b]104 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
105 href="../common/perl.xml"
106 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='h2'])"/>
107
[dabbced]108 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
[3f8be484]109 href="../common/perl.xml"
110 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='j'])"/>
111
[dabbced]112 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
[b4f5af8]113 href="../common/perl.xml"
114 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='k'])"/>
115
[dabbced]116 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
[9c1db810]117 href="perl.xml"
118 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='l'])"/>
119
[1da2a84]120<screen os="m"><userinput>mv -v /usr/bin/perl{,-64}
121mv -v /usr/bin/perl&perl-version;{,-64}</userinput></screen>
[9c1db810]122
[5accd22]123 <para os="n">Now we need to create a link to the multiarch wrapper that
124 lets us choose which perl installation to use:</para>
125
[8f0f884]126<screen os="o"><userinput>ln -sv multiarch_wrapper /usr/bin/perl
127ln -sv multiarch_wrapper /usr/bin/perl&perl-version;</userinput></screen>
[5accd22]128
[93a3052a]129 <para os="p">The value of the <envar>USE_ARCH</envar> environment variable
[5accd22]130 will decide which perl binary to execute.
131 <command>USE_ARCH=32 perl -V:cc</command> will give the value of CC used to
132 build the 32bit perl. The multiarch_wrapper will help later with building
133 perl extensions and bindings. Without the multiarch_wrapper it is very hard
[c4534a5]134 to setup a 32bit extension or binding.</para>
[95ab747]135
[4b453a1]136 </sect2>
137
[dabbced]138 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
[3f8be484]139 href="../common/perl.xml"
140 xpointer="xpointer(id('contents-perl'))"/>
141
142</sect1>
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