source: final-system/multilib/perl-64bit.xml@ 6d0fcac

Last change on this file since 6d0fcac was 856e3f4, 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-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 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
34 href="../common/perl.xml"
35 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='p1'])"/>
36
37 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
38 href="../common/perl.xml"
39 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='p2'])"/>
40
41 <para os="p3">Perl does not, by default, know about library directories with names other
42 than lib, such as lib64. The following patch will allow it to install to lib64:</para>
43
44<screen os="p4"><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&perl-multilib-patch;</userinput></screen>
45
46 <para os="p5">There is a further (possibly cosmetic) anomaly - if we install perl and
47 then run <command>perl -V</command> it will claim that libc is in /lib. The
48 following patch fixes this, but only takes effect when <command>make install
49 </command> is run:</para>
50
51<screen os="p6"><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&perl-lib64-patch;</userinput></screen>
52
53 <para os="m2">We still need to tell perl to actually use lib64:</para>
54
55<screen os="m3"><userinput>echo 'installstyle="lib64/perl5"' >>hints/linux.sh</userinput></screen>
56
57 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
58 href="../common/perl.xml"
59 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='a00'])"/>
60
61 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
62 href="../common/perl.xml"
63 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='a01'])"/>
64
65 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
66 href="../common/perl.xml"
67 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='a'])"/>
68
69<screen os="b"><userinput>./configure.gnu --prefix=/usr \
70 -Dman1dir=/usr/share/man/man1 \
71 -Dman3dir=/usr/share/man/man3 \
72 -Dpager="/bin/less -isR" \
73 -Dlibpth="/usr/local/lib64 /lib64 /usr/lib64" \
74 -Dcc="gcc ${BUILD64}" \
75 -Dusethreads</userinput></screen>
76
77 <variablelist os="m4">
78 <title>The meaning of the new configure option:</title>
79
80 <varlistentry>
81 <term><parameter>-Dlibpth="/usr/local/lib64 /lib64 /usr/lib64"</parameter></term>
82 <listitem>
83 <para>This tells Perl to link against the 64-bit libraries.</para>
84 </listitem>
85 </varlistentry>
86
87 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
88 href="../common/perl.xml"
89 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='c1'])"/>
90
91 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
92 href="../common/perl.xml"
93 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='c2'])"/>
94
95 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
96 href="../common/perl.xml"
97 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='c3'])"/>
98
99 </variablelist>
100
101 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
102 href="../common/perl.xml"
103 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='d'])"/>
104
105 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
106 href="../common/perl.xml"
107 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='e'])"/>
108
109 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
110 href="../common/perl.xml"
111 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='h'])"/>
112
113 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
114 href="../common/perl.xml"
115 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='j'])"/>
116
117 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
118 href="../common/perl.xml"
119 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='k'])"/>
120
121 </sect2>
122
123 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
124 href="../common/perl.xml"
125 xpointer="xpointer(id('contents-perl'))"/>
126
127</sect1>
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