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[3f8be484]1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN"
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd" [
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
[566db8e]17 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
18 href="../common/perl.xml"
19 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@role='package'])"/>
[3f8be484]20
21 <sect2 role="installation">
22 <title>Installation of Perl</title>
23
[6a7f467]24 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
25 href="../common/perl.xml"
[96d0fe5]26 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='s1'])"/>
[6a7f467]27
28 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
29 href="../common/perl.xml"
[96d0fe5]30 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='s2'])"/>
[6a7f467]31
[521c55b]32 <para os="p3">Perl does not, by default, know about library directories with names other
[9c1db810]33 than lib, The following patch will allow it to install to other directories:</para>
[3f8be484]34
[521c55b]35<screen os="p4"><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&perl-multilib-patch;</userinput></screen>
[3f8be484]36
[9c1db810]37 <para os="s1">There is a further (possibly cosmetic) anomaly - if we install perl and
[3f8be484]38 then run <command>perl -V</command> it will claim that libc is in /lib. The
[9c1db810]39 following sed fixes this, but only takes effect when <command>make install
[403203d]40 </command> is run:</para>
[3f8be484]41
[9c1db810]42<screen os="s2"><userinput>sed -i "/libc/s@/lib@/lib64@" hints/linux.sh</userinput></screen>
[3f8be484]43
[403203d]44 <para os="m2">We still need to tell perl to actually use lib64:</para>
[3f8be484]45
[e0e40d3]46<screen os="m3"><userinput>echo 'installstyle="lib64/perl5"' >>hints/linux.sh</userinput></screen>
[3f8be484]47
48 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
49 href="../common/perl.xml"
50 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='a'])"/>
51
[bbf90e8]52<screen os="b"><userinput>./configure.gnu --prefix=/usr \
53 -Dman1dir=/usr/share/man/man1 \
54 -Dman3dir=/usr/share/man/man3 \
55 -Dpager="/bin/less -isR" \
[3f8be484]56 -Dlibpth="/usr/local/lib64 /lib64 /usr/lib64" \
[c33fed0]57 -Dcc="gcc ${BUILD64}" \
58 -Dusethreads</userinput></screen>
[3f8be484]59
[e0e40d3]60 <variablelist os="m4">
[3f8be484]61 <title>The meaning of the new configure option:</title>
62
63 <varlistentry>
64 <term><parameter>-Dlibpth="/usr/local/lib64 /lib64 /usr/lib64"</parameter></term>
65 <listitem>
66 <para>This tells Perl to link against the 64-bit libraries.</para>
67 </listitem>
68 </varlistentry>
69
70 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
71 href="../common/perl.xml"
[e0e40d3]72 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='c1'])"/>
73
[bbf90e8]74 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
75 href="../common/perl.xml"
76 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='c2'])"/>
77
[c33fed0]78 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
79 href="../common/perl.xml"
80 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='c3'])"/>
81
[e0e40d3]82 </variablelist>
[3f8be484]83
84 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
85 href="../common/perl.xml"
86 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='d'])"/>
87
88 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
89 href="../common/perl.xml"
90 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='e'])"/>
91
92 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
93 href="../common/perl.xml"
94 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='h'])"/>
95
96 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
97 href="../common/perl.xml"
98 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='j'])"/>
99
[b4f5af8]100 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
101 href="../common/perl.xml"
102 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='k'])"/>
103
[9c1db810]104 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
105 href="perl.xml"
106 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='l'])"/>
107
[8f0f884]108<screen os="m"><userinput>mv /usr/bin/perl{,-64}
109mv /usr/bin/perl&perl-version;{,-64}</userinput></screen>
[9c1db810]110
[5accd22]111 <para os="n">Now we need to create a link to the multiarch wrapper that
112 lets us choose which perl installation to use:</para>
113
[8f0f884]114<screen os="o"><userinput>ln -sv multiarch_wrapper /usr/bin/perl
115ln -sv multiarch_wrapper /usr/bin/perl&perl-version;</userinput></screen>
[5accd22]116
[93a3052a]117 <para os="p">The value of the <envar>USE_ARCH</envar> environment variable
[5accd22]118 will decide which perl binary to execute.
119 <command>USE_ARCH=32 perl -V:cc</command> will give the value of CC used to
120 build the 32bit perl. The multiarch_wrapper will help later with building
121 perl extensions and bindings. Without the multiarch_wrapper it is very hard
122 to setup a 32bit extenstion or binding.</para>
[95ab747]123
[4b453a1]124 </sect2>
125
[3f8be484]126 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
127 href="../common/perl.xml"
128 xpointer="xpointer(id('contents-perl'))"/>
129
130</sect1>
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