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