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Last change on this file since cd317ff was ccd51bc, checked in by Chris Staub <chris@…>, 16 years ago

Add sed command to make perl use system-installed zlib

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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-perl" role="wrap">
9 <?dbhtml filename="perl-64bit.html"?>
10
11 <title>Perl-&perl-version; 64 Bit</title>
12
13 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl">
14 <primary sortas="a-Perl">Perl</primary>
15 </indexterm>
16
17 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
18 href="../common/perl.xml"
19 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@role='package'])"/>
20
21 <sect2 role="installation">
22 <title>Installation of Perl</title>
23
24 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
25 href="../common/perl.xml"
26 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='s1'])"/>
27
28 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
29 href="../common/perl.xml"
30 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='s2'])"/>
31
32 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
33 href="../common/perl.xml"
34 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='s3'])"/>
35
36 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
37 href="../common/perl.xml"
38 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='s4'])"/>
39
40 <para os="mp1">Perl does not, by default, know about library directories with names other
41 than lib, The following patch will allow it to install to other directories:</para>
42
43<screen os="mp2"><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&perl-multilib-patch;</userinput></screen>
44
45 <para os="s1">There is a further (possibly cosmetic) anomaly - if we install perl and
46 then run <command>perl -V</command> it will claim that libc is in /lib. The
47 following sed fixes this, but only takes effect when <command>make install
48 </command> is run:</para>
49
50<screen os="s2"><userinput>sed -i "/libc/s@/lib@/lib64@" hints/linux.sh</userinput></screen>
51
52 <para os="m2">We still need to tell perl to actually use lib64:</para>
53
54<screen os="m3"><userinput>echo 'installstyle="lib64/perl5"' >>hints/linux.sh</userinput></screen>
55
56 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
57 href="../common/perl.xml"
58 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='a'])"/>
59
60<screen os="b"><userinput>./configure.gnu --prefix=/usr \
61 -Dvendorprefix=/usr \
62 -Dman1dir=/usr/share/man/man1 \
63 -Dman3dir=/usr/share/man/man3 \
64 -Dpager="/bin/less -isR" \
65 -Dlibpth="/usr/local/lib64 /lib64 /usr/lib64" \
66 -Dcc="gcc ${BUILD64}" \
67 -Dusethreads -Duseshrplib</userinput></screen>
68
69 <variablelist os="m4">
70 <title>The meaning of the new configure option:</title>
71
72 <varlistentry>
73 <term><parameter>-Dlibpth="/usr/local/lib64 /lib64 /usr/lib64"</parameter></term>
74 <listitem>
75 <para>This tells Perl to link against the 64-bit libraries.</para>
76 </listitem>
77 </varlistentry>
78
79 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
80 href="../common/perl.xml"
81 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='c1'])"/>
82
83 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
84 href="../common/perl.xml"
85 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='c2'])"/>
86
87 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
88 href="../common/perl.xml"
89 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='c3'])"/>
90
91 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
92 href="../common/perl.xml"
93 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='c4'])"/>
94
95 </variablelist>
96
97 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
98 href="../common/perl.xml"
99 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='d'])"/>
100
101 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
102 href="../common/perl.xml"
103 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='e'])"/>
104
105 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
106 href="../common/perl.xml"
107 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='h'])"/>
108
109 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
110 href="../common/perl.xml"
111 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='j'])"/>
112
113 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
114 href="../common/perl.xml"
115 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='k'])"/>
116
117 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
118 href="perl.xml"
119 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='l'])"/>
120
121<screen os="m"><userinput>mv -v /usr/bin/perl{,-64}
122mv -v /usr/bin/perl&perl-version;{,-64}</userinput></screen>
123
124 <para os="n">Now we need to create a link to the multiarch wrapper that
125 lets us choose which perl installation to use:</para>
126
127<screen os="o"><userinput>ln -sv multiarch_wrapper /usr/bin/perl
128ln -sv multiarch_wrapper /usr/bin/perl&perl-version;</userinput></screen>
129
130 <para os="p">The value of the <envar>USE_ARCH</envar> environment variable
131 will decide which perl binary to execute.
132 <command>USE_ARCH=32 perl -V:cc</command> will give the value of CC used to
133 build the 32bit perl. The multiarch_wrapper will help later with building
134 perl extensions and bindings. Without the multiarch_wrapper it is very hard
135 to setup a 32bit extension or binding.</para>
136
137 </sect2>
138
139 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
140 href="../common/perl.xml"
141 xpointer="xpointer(id('contents-perl'))"/>
142
143</sect1>
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