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Last change on this file since 4232f0e was 3508ede, checked in by Joe Ciccone <jciccone@…>, 18 years ago

Add a patch to perl that fixes a issue with GCC 4.2.0

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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='p1'])"/>
27
28 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
29 href="../common/perl.xml"
30 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='p2'])"/>
31
32 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
33 href="../common/perl.xml"
34 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='s1'])"/>
35
36 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
37 href="../common/perl.xml"
38 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='s2'])"/>
39
40 <para os="p3">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="p4"><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 -Dman1dir=/usr/share/man/man1 \
62 -Dman3dir=/usr/share/man/man3 \
63 -Dpager="/bin/less -isR" \
64 -Dlibpth="/usr/local/lib64 /lib64 /usr/lib64" \
65 -Dcc="gcc ${BUILD64}" \
66 -Dusethreads</userinput></screen>
67
68 <variablelist os="m4">
69 <title>The meaning of the new configure option:</title>
70
71 <varlistentry>
72 <term><parameter>-Dlibpth="/usr/local/lib64 /lib64 /usr/lib64"</parameter></term>
73 <listitem>
74 <para>This tells Perl to link against the 64-bit libraries.</para>
75 </listitem>
76 </varlistentry>
77
78 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
79 href="../common/perl.xml"
80 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='c1'])"/>
81
82 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
83 href="../common/perl.xml"
84 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='c2'])"/>
85
86 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
87 href="../common/perl.xml"
88 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='c3'])"/>
89
90 </variablelist>
91
92 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
93 href="../common/perl.xml"
94 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='d'])"/>
95
96 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
97 href="../common/perl.xml"
98 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='e'])"/>
99
100 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
101 href="../common/perl.xml"
102 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='h'])"/>
103
104 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
105 href="../common/perl.xml"
106 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='j'])"/>
107
108 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
109 href="../common/perl.xml"
110 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='k'])"/>
111
112 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
113 href="perl.xml"
114 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='l'])"/>
115
116<screen os="m"><userinput>mv /usr/bin/perl{,-64}
117mv /usr/bin/perl&perl-version;{,-64}</userinput></screen>
118
119 <para os="n">Now we need to create a link to the multiarch wrapper that
120 lets us choose which perl installation to use:</para>
121
122<screen os="o"><userinput>ln -sv multiarch_wrapper /usr/bin/perl
123ln -sv multiarch_wrapper /usr/bin/perl&perl-version;</userinput></screen>
124
125 <para os="p">The value of the <envar>USE_ARCH</envar> environment variable
126 will decide which perl binary to execute.
127 <command>USE_ARCH=32 perl -V:cc</command> will give the value of CC used to
128 build the 32bit perl. The multiarch_wrapper will help later with building
129 perl extensions and bindings. Without the multiarch_wrapper it is very hard
130 to setup a 32bit extenstion or binding.</para>
131
132 </sect2>
133
134 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
135 href="../common/perl.xml"
136 xpointer="xpointer(id('contents-perl'))"/>
137
138</sect1>
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