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<sect1 id="ch-temp-tools-perl" role="wrap">
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  <title>Perl-&perl-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="ch-temp-tools-perl">
    <primary sortas="a-Perl">Perl</primary>
    <secondary>temporary tools</secondary>
  </indexterm>

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

    <para os="aa">First adapt some hard-wired paths to the C library by applying
    the following patch:</para>

<screen os="ab"><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&perl-libc-patch;</userinput></screen>

    <para os="ac">Prepare Perl for compilation (make sure to get the 'Data/Dumper
    IO Fcntl POSIX' part of the command correct&mdash;they are all letters):</para>

<screen><userinput>./configure.gnu --prefix=/tools -Dstatic_ext='Data/Dumper IO Fcntl POSIX'</userinput></screen>

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

      <varlistentry>
        <term><parameter>-Dstatic_ext='Data/Dumper IO Fcntl POSIX'</parameter></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>This tells Perl to build the minimum set of static
          extensions needed for installing and testing the Coreutils
          package in the next chapter.</para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

    <para os="ae">Only a few of the utilities contained in this package need to be
    built:</para>

<screen os="af"><userinput>make perl utilities</userinput></screen>

    <para os="ag">Although Perl comes with a test suite, it is not recommended to
    run it at this point. Only part of Perl was built and running
    <userinput>make test</userinput> now will cause the rest of Perl to be
    built as well, which is unnecessary at this point. The test suite can
    be run in the next chapter if desired.</para>

    <para os="ah">Install these tools and their libraries:</para>

<screen os="ai"><userinput>cp perl pod/pod2man /tools/bin
install -d /tools/lib/perl5/&perl-version;
cp -R lib/* /tools/lib/perl5/&perl-version;</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

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

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

  </sect2>

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