source: final-system/multilib/perl-64bit.xml@ 2ed9444

Last change on this file since 2ed9444 was 78bf0f71, checked in by Jim Gifford <clfs@…>, 19 years ago

r1135@server (orig r1133): jim | 2006-02-02 10:37:59 -0800

r1178@server: jim | 2006-02-02 09:29:30 -0800
Updated to Perl 5.8.8


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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-64bit.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 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
18 href="../common/perl.xml"
19 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@role='package'])"/>
20
21 <sect2 role="installation">
22 <title>Installation of Perl</title>
23
24 <para os="m1">In multilib builds we install compilers and libraries for each available
25 architecture. The description below says that perl installs several hundred
26 libraries, but they are used by invoking <command>perl</command>, not by linking
27 to them with <command>ld</command>. Although it is possible to install perl for
28 32 bits, move it to a different name, and then install the 64-bit version, it is
29 almost always invoked as just <command>perl</command>. That means only the
30 libraries and modules for the last version installed will be accessible. We
31 therefore only install one version.</para>
32
33 <para os="p3">Perl does not, by default, know about library directories with names other
34 than lib, such as lib64. The following patch will allow it to install to lib64.</para>
35
36<screen os="p4"><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&perl-multilib-patch;</userinput></screen>
37
38 <para os="p5">There is a further (possibly cosmetic) anomaly - if we install perl and
39 then run <command>perl -V</command> it will claim that libc is in /lib. The
40 following patch fixes this, but only takes effect when <command>make install
41 </command> is run.</para>
42
43<screen os="p6"><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&perl-lib64-patch;</userinput></screen>
44
45 <para os="m2">We still need to tell perl to actually use lib64</para>
46
47<screen os="m3"><userinput>echo 'installstyle="lib64/perl5"' >>hints/linux.sh</userinput></screen>
48
49 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
50 href="../common/perl.xml"
51 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='a00'])"/>
52
53 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
54 href="../common/perl.xml"
55 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='a01'])"/>
56
57 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
58 href="../common/perl.xml"
59 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='a'])"/>
60
61<screen os="b"><userinput>./configure.gnu --prefix=/usr -Dpager="/bin/less -isR" \
62 -Dlibpth="/usr/local/lib64 /lib64 /usr/lib64" \
63 -Dcc="gcc ${BUILD64}"</userinput></screen>
64
65 <variablelist os="m4">
66 <title>The meaning of the new configure option:</title>
67
68 <varlistentry>
69 <term><parameter>-Dlibpth="/usr/local/lib64 /lib64 /usr/lib64"</parameter></term>
70 <listitem>
71 <para>This tells Perl to link against the 64-bit libraries.</para>
72 </listitem>
73 </varlistentry>
74
75 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
76 href="../common/perl.xml"
77 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='c1'])"/>
78
79 </variablelist>
80
81 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
82 href="../common/perl.xml"
83 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='d'])"/>
84
85 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
86 href="../common/perl.xml"
87 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='e'])"/>
88
89 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
90 href="../common/perl.xml"
91 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='h'])"/>
92
93 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
94 href="../common/perl.xml"
95 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='i'])"/>
96
97 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
98 href="../common/perl.xml"
99 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='j'])"/>
100
101 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
102 href="../common/perl.xml"
103 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='k'])"/>
104
105 </sect2>
106
107 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
108 href="../common/perl.xml"
109 xpointer="xpointer(id('contents-perl'))"/>
110
111</sect1>
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