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Last change on this file since c62fb2a was c62fb2a, checked in by Joe Ciccone <jciccone@…>, 18 years ago

Add the perl fPIC patch.

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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.html"?>
10
11 <title>Perl-&perl-version;</title>
12
13 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl">
14 <primary sortas="a-Perl">Perl</primary>
15 </indexterm>
16
17 <sect2 role="package">
18 <title/>
19
20 <para>The Perl package contains the Practical Extraction and Report
21 Language.</para>
22
23 </sect2>
24
25 <sect2 role="installation">
26 <title>Installation of Perl</title>
27
28 <para os="p1">The following patch fixes issues with perl and
29 cross-compiling:</para>
30
31<screen os="p2"><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&perl-cross_compile-patch;</userinput></screen>
32
33 <para os="a">The Cross directory contains a Makefile for cross-compiling.</para>
34
35 <para os="p3">The following patch causes <filename>DynaLoader.a</filename>
36 to be built with -fPIC so it can be linked into a shared library
37 later.</para>
38
39<screen os="p4"><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&perl-fpic-patch;</userinput></screen>
40
41<screen os="b"><userinput>cd Cross</userinput></screen>
42
43 <para os="c">Compile the package:</para>
44
45<screen os="d"><userinput>make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE="${CLFS_TARGET}-"</userinput></screen>
46
47 <para os="e">Install the package:</para>
48
49<screen os="f"><userinput>make DESTDIR=${CLFS} install</userinput></screen>
50
51 </sect2>
52
53 <sect2 id="contents-perl" role="content">
54 <title>Contents of Perl</title>
55
56 <segmentedlist>
57 <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
58 <segtitle>Installed libraries</segtitle>
59
60 <seglistitem>
61 <seg>a2p, c2ph, cpan, dprofpp, enc2xs, find2perl, h2ph, h2xs, instmodsh, libnetcfg,
62 perl, perl&perl-version; (link to perl), perlbug, perlcc, perldoc,
63 perlivp, piconv, pl2pm, pod2html, pod2latex, pod2man, pod2text,
64 pod2usage, podchecker, podselect, prove, psed (link to s2p), pstruct (link
65 to c2ph), s2p, splain, and xsubpp</seg>
66 <seg>Several hundred which cannot all be listed here</seg>
67 </seglistitem>
68 </segmentedlist>
69
70 <variablelist>
71 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
72 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
73 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
74
75 <varlistentry id="a2p">
76 <term><command>a2p</command></term>
77 <listitem>
78 <para>Translates awk to Perl</para>
79 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl a2p">
80 <primary sortas="b-a2p">a2p</primary>
81 </indexterm>
82 </listitem>
83 </varlistentry>
84
85 <varlistentry id="c2ph">
86 <term><command>c2ph</command></term>
87 <listitem>
88 <para>Dumps C structures as generated from
89 <command>cc -g -S</command></para>
90 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl c2ph">
91 <primary sortas="b-c2ph">c2ph</primary>
92 </indexterm>
93 </listitem>
94 </varlistentry>
95
96 <varlistentry id="cpan">
97 <term><command>cpan</command></term>
98 <listitem>
99 <para>Shell script that provides a command interface to CPAN.pm</para>
100 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl cpan">
101 <primary sortas="b-cpan">cpan</primary>
102 </indexterm>
103 </listitem>
104 </varlistentry>
105
106 <varlistentry id="dprofpp">
107 <term><command>dprofpp</command></term>
108 <listitem>
109 <para>Displays Perl profile data</para>
110 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl dprofpp">
111 <primary sortas="b-dprofpp">dprofpp</primary>
112 </indexterm>
113 </listitem>
114 </varlistentry>
115
116 <varlistentry id="enc2xs">
117 <term><command>enc2xs</command></term>
118 <listitem>
119 <para>Builds a Perl extension for the Encode module from either
120 Unicode Character Mappings or Tcl Encoding Files</para>
121 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl enc2xs">
122 <primary sortas="b-enc2xs">enc2xs</primary>
123 </indexterm>
124 </listitem>
125 </varlistentry>
126
127 <varlistentry id="find2perl">
128 <term><command>find2perl</command></term>
129 <listitem>
130 <para>Translates <command>find</command> commands to Perl</para>
131 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl find2perl">
132 <primary sortas="b-find2perl">find2perl</primary>
133 </indexterm>
134 </listitem>
135 </varlistentry>
136
137 <varlistentry id="h2ph">
138 <term><command>h2ph</command></term>
139 <listitem>
140 <para>Converts <filename class="extension">.h</filename> C header
141 files to <filename class="extension">.ph</filename> Perl header
142 files</para>
143 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl h2ph">
144 <primary sortas="b-h2ph">h2ph</primary>
145 </indexterm>
146 </listitem>
147 </varlistentry>
148
149 <varlistentry id="h2xs">
150 <term><command>h2xs</command></term>
151 <listitem>
152 <para>Converts <filename class="extension">.h</filename> C header
153 files to Perl extensions</para>
154 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl h2xs">
155 <primary sortas="b-h2xs">h2xs</primary>
156 </indexterm>
157 </listitem>
158 </varlistentry>
159
160 <varlistentry id="libnetcfg">
161 <term><command>libnetcfg</command></term>
162 <listitem>
163 <para>Can be used to configure the
164 <filename class="libraryfile">libnet</filename></para>
165 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl libnetcfg">
166 <primary sortas="b-libnetcfg">libnetcfg</primary>
167 </indexterm>
168 </listitem>
169 </varlistentry>
170
171 <varlistentry id="instmodsh">
172 <term><command>instmodsh</command></term>
173 <listitem>
174 <para>A shell script for examining installed Perl modules,
175 and can even create a tarball from an installed module</para>
176 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl instmodsh">
177 <primary sortas="b-instmodsh">instmodsh</primary>
178 </indexterm>
179 </listitem>
180 </varlistentry>
181
182 <varlistentry id="perl">
183 <term><command>perl</command></term>
184 <listitem>
185 <para>Combines some of the best features of C, <command>sed</command>,
186 <command>awk</command> and <command>sh</command> into a single
187 swiss-army-knife language</para>
188 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perl">
189 <primary sortas="b-perl">perl</primary>
190 </indexterm>
191 </listitem>
192 </varlistentry>
193
194 <varlistentry id="perl-version">
195 <term><command>perl&perl-version;</command></term>
196 <listitem>
197 <para>A hard link to <command>perl</command></para>
198 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perl-version">
199 <primary sortas="b-perl&perl-version;">perl&perl-version;</primary>
200 </indexterm>
201 </listitem>
202 </varlistentry>
203
204 <varlistentry id="perlbug">
205 <term><command>perlbug</command></term>
206 <listitem>
207 <para>Used to generate bug reports about Perl, or the modules that come
208 with it, and mail them</para>
209 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perlbug">
210 <primary sortas="b-perlbug">perlbug</primary>
211 </indexterm>
212 </listitem>
213 </varlistentry>
214
215 <varlistentry id="perlcc">
216 <term><command>perlcc</command></term>
217 <listitem>
218 <para>Generates executables from Perl programs</para>
219 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perlcc">
220 <primary sortas="b-perlcc">perlcc</primary>
221 </indexterm>
222 </listitem>
223 </varlistentry>
224
225 <varlistentry id="perldoc">
226 <term><command>perldoc</command></term>
227 <listitem>
228 <para>Displays a piece of documentation in pod format that is embedded
229 in the Perl installation tree or in a Perl script</para>
230 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perldoc">
231 <primary sortas="b-perldoc">perldoc</primary>
232 </indexterm>
233 </listitem>
234 </varlistentry>
235
236 <varlistentry id="perlivp">
237 <term><command>perlivp</command></term>
238 <listitem>
239 <para>The Perl Installation Verification Procedure; it can be used to
240 verify that Perl and its libraries have been installed
241 correctly</para>
242 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perlivp">
243 <primary sortas="b-perlivp">perlivp</primary>
244 </indexterm>
245 </listitem>
246 </varlistentry>
247
248 <varlistentry id="piconv">
249 <term><command>piconv</command></term>
250 <listitem>
251 <para>A Perl version of the character encoding converter
252 <command>iconv</command></para>
253 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl piconv">
254 <primary sortas="b-piconv">piconv</primary>
255 </indexterm>
256 </listitem>
257 </varlistentry>
258
259 <varlistentry id="pl2pm">
260 <term><command>pl2pm</command></term>
261 <listitem>
262 <para>A rough tool for converting Perl4
263 <filename class="extension">.pl</filename> files to Perl5
264 <filename class="extension">.pm</filename> modules</para>
265 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pl2pm">
266 <primary sortas="b-pl2pm">pl2pm</primary>
267 </indexterm>
268 </listitem>
269 </varlistentry>
270
271 <varlistentry id="pod2html">
272 <term><command>pod2html</command></term>
273 <listitem>
274 <para>Converts files from pod format to HTML format</para>
275 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pod2html">
276 <primary sortas="b-pod2html">pod2html</primary>
277 </indexterm>
278 </listitem>
279 </varlistentry>
280
281 <varlistentry id="pod2latex">
282 <term><command>pod2latex</command></term>
283 <listitem>
284 <para>Converts files from pod format to LaTeX format</para>
285 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pod2latex">
286 <primary sortas="b-pod2latex">pod2latex</primary>
287 </indexterm>
288 </listitem>
289 </varlistentry>
290
291 <varlistentry id="pod2man">
292 <term><command>pod2man</command></term>
293 <listitem>
294 <para>Converts pod data to formatted *roff input</para>
295 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pod2man">
296 <primary sortas="b-pod2man">pod2man</primary>
297 </indexterm>
298 </listitem>
299 </varlistentry>
300
301 <varlistentry id="pod2text">
302 <term><command>pod2text</command></term>
303 <listitem>
304 <para>Converts pod data to formatted ASCII text</para>
305 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pod2text">
306 <primary sortas="b-pod2text">pod2text</primary>
307 </indexterm>
308 </listitem>
309 </varlistentry>
310
311 <varlistentry id="pod2usage">
312 <term><command>pod2usage</command></term>
313 <listitem>
314 <para>Prints usage messages from embedded pod docs in files</para>
315 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pod2usage">
316 <primary sortas="b-pod2usage">pod2usage</primary>
317 </indexterm>
318 </listitem>
319 </varlistentry>
320
321 <varlistentry id="podchecker">
322 <term><command>podchecker</command></term>
323 <listitem>
324 <para>Checks the syntax of pod format documentation files</para>
325 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl podchecker">
326 <primary sortas="b-podchecker">podchecker</primary>
327 </indexterm>
328 </listitem>
329 </varlistentry>
330
331 <varlistentry id="podselect">
332 <term><command>podselect</command></term>
333 <listitem>
334 <para>Displays selected sections of pod documentation</para>
335 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl podselect">
336 <primary sortas="b-podselect">podselect</primary>
337 </indexterm>
338 </listitem>
339 </varlistentry>
340
341 <varlistentry id="prove">
342 <term><command>prove</command></term>
343 <listitem>
344 <para>A command-line tool for running tests against Test::Harness</para>
345 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl prove">
346 <primary sortas="b-prove">prove</primary>
347 </indexterm>
348 </listitem>
349 </varlistentry>
350
351 <varlistentry id="psed">
352 <term><command>psed</command></term>
353 <listitem>
354 <para>A Perl version of the stream editor <command>sed</command></para>
355 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl psed">
356 <primary sortas="b-psed">psed</primary>
357 </indexterm>
358 </listitem>
359 </varlistentry>
360
361 <varlistentry id="pstruct">
362 <term><command>pstruct</command></term>
363 <listitem>
364 <para>Dumps C structures as generated from <command>cc -g -S</command>
365 stabs</para>
366 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pstruct">
367 <primary sortas="b-pstruct">pstruct</primary>
368 </indexterm>
369 </listitem>
370 </varlistentry>
371
372 <varlistentry id="s2p">
373 <term><command>s2p</command></term>
374 <listitem>
375 <para>Translates <command>sed</command> to Perl</para>
376 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl s2p">
377 <primary sortas="b-s2p">s2p</primary>
378 </indexterm>
379 </listitem>
380 </varlistentry>
381
382 <varlistentry id="splain">
383 <term><command>splain</command></term>
384 <listitem>
385 <para>Is used to force verbose warning diagnostics in Perl</para>
386 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl splain">
387 <primary sortas="b-splain">splain</primary>
388 </indexterm>
389 </listitem>
390 </varlistentry>
391
392 <varlistentry id="xsubpp">
393 <term><command>xsubpp</command></term>
394 <listitem>
395 <para>Converts Perl XS code into C code</para>
396 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl xsubpp">
397 <primary sortas="b-xsubpp">xsubpp</primary>
398 </indexterm>
399 </listitem>
400 </varlistentry>
401
402 </variablelist>
403
404 </sect2>
405
406</sect1>
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