source: final-system/common/perl.xml@ 80589584

Last change on this file since 80589584 was 336f7a1, checked in by Jim Gifford <clfs@…>, 18 years ago

Fixed Perl Testsuites - Network tests

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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="s1">The following sed causes <filename>DynaLoader.a</filename>
29 to be built with -fPIC so it can be linked into a shared library
30 later:</para>
31
32<screen os="s2"><userinput>sed -i -e "s@pldlflags=''@pldlflags=\"\$cccdlflags\"@g" \
33 -e "s@static_target='static'@static_target='static_pic'@g" Makefile.SH</userinput></screen>
34
35 <para os="a00">Before starting to configure, create a basic
36 <filename>/etc/hosts</filename> file which will be referenced in one
37 of Perl's configuration files as well as being used used by the testsuite
38 if you run that:</para>
39
40<screen os="a01"><userinput>echo "127.0.0.1 localhost clfs" &gt; /etc/hosts</userinput></screen>
41
42 <para os="a02">We also have to enable the loopback interface, this
43 will prevent some perl networking testsuite failures:</para>
44
45<screen os="a03"><userinput>ip link set lo up</userinput></screen>
46
47 <para os="a04">We also have to set the hostname for some of the
48 test:</para>
49
50<screen os="a05"><userinput>hostname clfs</userinput></screen>
51
52 <para os="a">To have full control over the way Perl is set up, you can
53 run the interactive <command>Configure</command> script and hand-pick
54 the way this package is built. If you prefer instead to use the defaults
55 that Perl auto-detects, prepare Perl for compilation with:</para>
56
57<screen os="b"><userinput>./configure.gnu --prefix=/usr \
58 -Dman1dir=/usr/share/man/man1 \
59 -Dman3dir=/usr/share/man/man3 \
60 -Dpager="/bin/less -isR" \
61 -Dusethreads</userinput></screen>
62
63 <variablelist os="c">
64 <title>The meaning of the configure option:</title>
65
66 <varlistentry os="c1">
67 <term><parameter>-Dpager="/bin/less -isR"</parameter></term>
68 <listitem>
69 <para>This corrects an error in the way that <command>perldoc</command>
70 invokes the <command>less</command> program.</para>
71 </listitem>
72 </varlistentry>
73 <varlistentry os="c2">
74 <term><parameter>-Dman1dir=/usr/share/man/man1 -Dman3dir=/usr/share/man/man3</parameter></term>
75 <listitem>
76 <para>Since Groff is not installed yet,
77 <command>configure.gnu</command> thinks that we do not want
78 man pages for Perl. Issuing these parameters overrides this decision.</para>
79 </listitem>
80 </varlistentry>
81 <varlistentry os="c3">
82 <term><parameter>-Dusethreads</parameter></term>
83 <listitem>
84 <para>This tells Perl to use threads.</para>
85 </listitem>
86 </varlistentry>
87 </variablelist>
88
89 <para os="d">Compile the package:</para>
90
91<screen os="e"><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
92
93 <para os="h">To test the results, issue:
94 <userinput>make test</userinput>.</para>
95
96 <para os="j">Install the package:</para>
97
98<screen os="k"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
99
100 </sect2>
101
102 <sect2 id="contents-perl" role="content">
103 <title>Contents of Perl</title>
104
105 <segmentedlist>
106 <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
107 <segtitle>Installed libraries</segtitle>
108
109 <seglistitem>
110 <seg>a2p, c2ph, cpan, dprofpp, enc2xs, find2perl, h2ph, h2xs, instmodsh, libnetcfg,
111 perl, perl&perl-version; (link to perl), perlbug, perlcc, perldoc,
112 perlivp, piconv, pl2pm, pod2html, pod2latex, pod2man, pod2text,
113 pod2usage, podchecker, podselect, prove, psed (link to s2p), pstruct (link
114 to c2ph), s2p, splain, and xsubpp</seg>
115 <seg>Several hundred which cannot all be listed here</seg>
116 </seglistitem>
117 </segmentedlist>
118
119 <variablelist>
120 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
121 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
122 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
123
124 <varlistentry id="a2p">
125 <term><command>a2p</command></term>
126 <listitem>
127 <para>Translates awk to Perl</para>
128 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl a2p">
129 <primary sortas="b-a2p">a2p</primary>
130 </indexterm>
131 </listitem>
132 </varlistentry>
133
134 <varlistentry id="c2ph">
135 <term><command>c2ph</command></term>
136 <listitem>
137 <para>Dumps C structures as generated from
138 <command>cc -g -S</command></para>
139 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl c2ph">
140 <primary sortas="b-c2ph">c2ph</primary>
141 </indexterm>
142 </listitem>
143 </varlistentry>
144
145 <varlistentry id="cpan">
146 <term><command>cpan</command></term>
147 <listitem>
148 <para>Shell script that provides a command interface to CPAN.pm</para>
149 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl cpan">
150 <primary sortas="b-cpan">cpan</primary>
151 </indexterm>
152 </listitem>
153 </varlistentry>
154
155 <varlistentry id="dprofpp">
156 <term><command>dprofpp</command></term>
157 <listitem>
158 <para>Displays Perl profile data</para>
159 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl dprofpp">
160 <primary sortas="b-dprofpp">dprofpp</primary>
161 </indexterm>
162 </listitem>
163 </varlistentry>
164
165 <varlistentry id="enc2xs">
166 <term><command>enc2xs</command></term>
167 <listitem>
168 <para>Builds a Perl extension for the Encode module from either
169 Unicode Character Mappings or Tcl Encoding Files</para>
170 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl enc2xs">
171 <primary sortas="b-enc2xs">enc2xs</primary>
172 </indexterm>
173 </listitem>
174 </varlistentry>
175
176 <varlistentry id="find2perl">
177 <term><command>find2perl</command></term>
178 <listitem>
179 <para>Translates <command>find</command> commands to Perl</para>
180 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl find2perl">
181 <primary sortas="b-find2perl">find2perl</primary>
182 </indexterm>
183 </listitem>
184 </varlistentry>
185
186 <varlistentry id="h2ph">
187 <term><command>h2ph</command></term>
188 <listitem>
189 <para>Converts <filename class="extension">.h</filename> C header
190 files to <filename class="extension">.ph</filename> Perl header
191 files</para>
192 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl h2ph">
193 <primary sortas="b-h2ph">h2ph</primary>
194 </indexterm>
195 </listitem>
196 </varlistentry>
197
198 <varlistentry id="h2xs">
199 <term><command>h2xs</command></term>
200 <listitem>
201 <para>Converts <filename class="extension">.h</filename> C header
202 files to Perl extensions</para>
203 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl h2xs">
204 <primary sortas="b-h2xs">h2xs</primary>
205 </indexterm>
206 </listitem>
207 </varlistentry>
208
209 <varlistentry id="libnetcfg">
210 <term><command>libnetcfg</command></term>
211 <listitem>
212 <para>Can be used to configure the
213 <filename class="libraryfile">libnet</filename></para>
214 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl libnetcfg">
215 <primary sortas="b-libnetcfg">libnetcfg</primary>
216 </indexterm>
217 </listitem>
218 </varlistentry>
219
220 <varlistentry id="instmodsh">
221 <term><command>instmodsh</command></term>
222 <listitem>
223 <para>A shell script for examining installed Perl modules,
224 and can even create a tarball from an installed module</para>
225 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl instmodsh">
226 <primary sortas="b-instmodsh">instmodsh</primary>
227 </indexterm>
228 </listitem>
229 </varlistentry>
230
231 <varlistentry id="perl">
232 <term><command>perl</command></term>
233 <listitem>
234 <para>Combines some of the best features of C, <command>sed</command>,
235 <command>awk</command> and <command>sh</command> into a single
236 swiss-army-knife language</para>
237 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perl">
238 <primary sortas="b-perl">perl</primary>
239 </indexterm>
240 </listitem>
241 </varlistentry>
242
243 <varlistentry id="perl-version">
244 <term><command>perl&perl-version;</command></term>
245 <listitem>
246 <para>A hard link to <command>perl</command></para>
247 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perl-version">
248 <primary sortas="b-perl&perl-version;">perl&perl-version;</primary>
249 </indexterm>
250 </listitem>
251 </varlistentry>
252
253 <varlistentry id="perlbug">
254 <term><command>perlbug</command></term>
255 <listitem>
256 <para>Used to generate bug reports about Perl, or the modules that come
257 with it, and mail them</para>
258 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perlbug">
259 <primary sortas="b-perlbug">perlbug</primary>
260 </indexterm>
261 </listitem>
262 </varlistentry>
263
264 <varlistentry id="perlcc">
265 <term><command>perlcc</command></term>
266 <listitem>
267 <para>Generates executables from Perl programs</para>
268 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perlcc">
269 <primary sortas="b-perlcc">perlcc</primary>
270 </indexterm>
271 </listitem>
272 </varlistentry>
273
274 <varlistentry id="perldoc">
275 <term><command>perldoc</command></term>
276 <listitem>
277 <para>Displays a piece of documentation in pod format that is embedded
278 in the Perl installation tree or in a Perl script</para>
279 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perldoc">
280 <primary sortas="b-perldoc">perldoc</primary>
281 </indexterm>
282 </listitem>
283 </varlistentry>
284
285 <varlistentry id="perlivp">
286 <term><command>perlivp</command></term>
287 <listitem>
288 <para>The Perl Installation Verification Procedure; it can be used to
289 verify that Perl and its libraries have been installed
290 correctly</para>
291 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perlivp">
292 <primary sortas="b-perlivp">perlivp</primary>
293 </indexterm>
294 </listitem>
295 </varlistentry>
296
297 <varlistentry id="piconv">
298 <term><command>piconv</command></term>
299 <listitem>
300 <para>A Perl version of the character encoding converter
301 <command>iconv</command></para>
302 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl piconv">
303 <primary sortas="b-piconv">piconv</primary>
304 </indexterm>
305 </listitem>
306 </varlistentry>
307
308 <varlistentry id="pl2pm">
309 <term><command>pl2pm</command></term>
310 <listitem>
311 <para>A rough tool for converting Perl4
312 <filename class="extension">.pl</filename> files to Perl5
313 <filename class="extension">.pm</filename> modules</para>
314 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pl2pm">
315 <primary sortas="b-pl2pm">pl2pm</primary>
316 </indexterm>
317 </listitem>
318 </varlistentry>
319
320 <varlistentry id="pod2html">
321 <term><command>pod2html</command></term>
322 <listitem>
323 <para>Converts files from pod format to HTML format</para>
324 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pod2html">
325 <primary sortas="b-pod2html">pod2html</primary>
326 </indexterm>
327 </listitem>
328 </varlistentry>
329
330 <varlistentry id="pod2latex">
331 <term><command>pod2latex</command></term>
332 <listitem>
333 <para>Converts files from pod format to LaTeX format</para>
334 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pod2latex">
335 <primary sortas="b-pod2latex">pod2latex</primary>
336 </indexterm>
337 </listitem>
338 </varlistentry>
339
340 <varlistentry id="pod2man">
341 <term><command>pod2man</command></term>
342 <listitem>
343 <para>Converts pod data to formatted *roff input</para>
344 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pod2man">
345 <primary sortas="b-pod2man">pod2man</primary>
346 </indexterm>
347 </listitem>
348 </varlistentry>
349
350 <varlistentry id="pod2text">
351 <term><command>pod2text</command></term>
352 <listitem>
353 <para>Converts pod data to formatted ASCII text</para>
354 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pod2text">
355 <primary sortas="b-pod2text">pod2text</primary>
356 </indexterm>
357 </listitem>
358 </varlistentry>
359
360 <varlistentry id="pod2usage">
361 <term><command>pod2usage</command></term>
362 <listitem>
363 <para>Prints usage messages from embedded pod docs in files</para>
364 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pod2usage">
365 <primary sortas="b-pod2usage">pod2usage</primary>
366 </indexterm>
367 </listitem>
368 </varlistentry>
369
370 <varlistentry id="podchecker">
371 <term><command>podchecker</command></term>
372 <listitem>
373 <para>Checks the syntax of pod format documentation files</para>
374 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl podchecker">
375 <primary sortas="b-podchecker">podchecker</primary>
376 </indexterm>
377 </listitem>
378 </varlistentry>
379
380 <varlistentry id="podselect">
381 <term><command>podselect</command></term>
382 <listitem>
383 <para>Displays selected sections of pod documentation</para>
384 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl podselect">
385 <primary sortas="b-podselect">podselect</primary>
386 </indexterm>
387 </listitem>
388 </varlistentry>
389
390 <varlistentry id="prove">
391 <term><command>prove</command></term>
392 <listitem>
393 <para>A command-line tool for running tests against Test::Harness</para>
394 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl prove">
395 <primary sortas="b-prove">prove</primary>
396 </indexterm>
397 </listitem>
398 </varlistentry>
399
400 <varlistentry id="psed">
401 <term><command>psed</command></term>
402 <listitem>
403 <para>A Perl version of the stream editor <command>sed</command></para>
404 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl psed">
405 <primary sortas="b-psed">psed</primary>
406 </indexterm>
407 </listitem>
408 </varlistentry>
409
410 <varlistentry id="pstruct">
411 <term><command>pstruct</command></term>
412 <listitem>
413 <para>Dumps C structures as generated from <command>cc -g -S</command>
414 stabs</para>
415 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pstruct">
416 <primary sortas="b-pstruct">pstruct</primary>
417 </indexterm>
418 </listitem>
419 </varlistentry>
420
421 <varlistentry id="s2p">
422 <term><command>s2p</command></term>
423 <listitem>
424 <para>Translates <command>sed</command> to Perl</para>
425 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl s2p">
426 <primary sortas="b-s2p">s2p</primary>
427 </indexterm>
428 </listitem>
429 </varlistentry>
430
431 <varlistentry id="splain">
432 <term><command>splain</command></term>
433 <listitem>
434 <para>Is used to force verbose warning diagnostics in Perl</para>
435 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl splain">
436 <primary sortas="b-splain">splain</primary>
437 </indexterm>
438 </listitem>
439 </varlistentry>
440
441 <varlistentry id="xsubpp">
442 <term><command>xsubpp</command></term>
443 <listitem>
444 <para>Converts Perl XS code into C code</para>
445 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl xsubpp">
446 <primary sortas="b-xsubpp">xsubpp</primary>
447 </indexterm>
448 </listitem>
449 </varlistentry>
450
451 </variablelist>
452
453 </sect2>
454
455</sect1>
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