source: BOOK/final-system/multilib/perl-n32.xml@ b2bd1cb8

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<sect1 id="ch-system-perl-n32" role="wrap">
  <?dbhtml filename="perl-n32.html"?>

  <title>Perl-&perl-version; N32 Libraries</title>

  <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl-n32">
    <primary sortas="a-Perl">Perl</primary>
    <secondary>N32</secondary>
  </indexterm>

  <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
  href="../common/perl.xml"
  xpointer="xpointer(//*[@role='package'])"/>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of Perl</title>

    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
    href="../common/perl.xml"
    xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='s3'])"/>

<screen os="s4"><userinput>sed -i -e '/^BUILD_ZLIB/s/True/False/' \
       -e '/^INCLUDE/s,\./zlib-src,/usr/include,' \
       -e '/^LIB/s,\./zlib-src,/usr/lib32,' \
       cpan/Compress-Raw-Zlib/config.in</userinput></screen>

    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
    href="perl-64bit.xml"
    xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='mp1'])"/>

    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
    href="perl-64bit.xml"
    xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='mp2'])"/>

    <para os="m2">We still need to tell perl to actually use
    <filename class="directory">lib32</filename>:</para>

<screen os="m3"><userinput>echo 'installstyle="lib32/perl5"' &gt;&gt; hints/linux.sh</userinput></screen>

    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
    href="../common/perl.xml"
    xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='a'])"/>

<screen os="b"><userinput>./configure.gnu \
    --prefix=/usr \
    -Dvendorprefix=/usr \
    -Dman1dir=/usr/share/man/man1 \
    -Dman3dir=/usr/share/man/man3 \
    -Dpager="/bin/less -isR" \
    -Dlibpth="/usr/local/lib32 /lib32 /usr/lib32" \
    -Dcc="gcc ${BUILDN32}" \
    -Dusethreads -Duseshrplib</userinput></screen>

    <variablelist os="m4">
      <title>The meaning of the new configure option:</title>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><parameter>-Dlibpth="/usr/local/lib32 /lib32 /usr/lib32"</parameter></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>This tells Perl to link against the N32 libraries.</para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
    href="../common/perl.xml"
    xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='c1'])"/>

    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
    href="../common/perl.xml"
    xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='c2'])"/>

    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
    href="../common/perl.xml"
    xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='c3'])"/>

    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
    href="../common/perl.xml"
    xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='c4'])"/>

    </variablelist>

    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
    href="../common/perl.xml"
    xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='d'])"/>

    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
    href="../common/perl.xml"
    xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='e'])"/>

    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
    href="../common/perl.xml"
    xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='h'])"/>

    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
    href="../common/perl.xml"
    xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='h2'])"/>

    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
    href="../common/perl.xml"
    xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='j'])"/>

    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
    href="../common/perl.xml"
    xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='k'])"/>

    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
    href="perl.xml"
    xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='l'])"/>

<screen os="m"><userinput>mv -v /usr/bin/perl{,-n32}
mv -v /usr/bin/perl&perl-version;{,-n32}</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="content">
    <title/>

    <para>Details on this package are located in <xref
    linkend="contents-perl" role="."/></para>

  </sect2>

</sect1>