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Last change on this file since cc07a72 was e7732d7, checked in by Jim Gifford <clfs@…>, 19 years ago

r783@server (orig r781): jim | 2005-11-30 22:29:11 -0800

r840@server: jim | 2005-11-30 22:28:43 -0800
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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-temp-tools-perl" role="wrap">
9 <?dbhtml filename="perl.html"?>
10
11 <title>Perl-&perl-version;</title>
12
13 <indexterm zone="ch-temp-tools-perl">
14 <primary sortas="a-Perl">Perl</primary>
15 <secondary>temporary tools</secondary>
16 </indexterm>
17
18 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
19 href="../../final-system/common/perl.xml"
20 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@role='package'])"/>
21
22 <sect2 role="installation">
23 <title>Installation of Perl</title>
24
25 <para os="a">First adapt some hard-wired paths to the C library by applying
26 the following patch:</para>
27
28<screen os="b"><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&perl-libc-patch;</userinput></screen>
29
30 <para os="c">Prepare Perl for compilation (make sure to get the 'Data/Dumper
31 IO Fcntl POSIX' part of the command correct&mdash;they are all letters):</para>
32
33<screen os="d"><userinput>./configure.gnu --prefix=/tools -Dstatic_ext='Data/Dumper IO Fcntl POSIX'</userinput></screen>
34
35 <variablelist os="e">
36 <title>The meaning of the configure option:</title>
37
38 <varlistentry>
39 <term><parameter>-Dstatic_ext='Data/Dumper IO Fcntl POSIX'</parameter></term>
40 <listitem>
41 <para>This tells Perl to build the minimum set of static
42 extensions needed for installing and testing the Coreutils
43 package in the next chapter.</para>
44 </listitem>
45 </varlistentry>
46
47 </variablelist>
48
49 <para os="f">Only a few of the utilities contained in this package need to be
50 built:</para>
51
52<screen os="g"><userinput>make perl utilities</userinput></screen>
53
54 <para os="h">Although Perl comes with a test suite, it is not recommended to
55 run it at this point. Only part of Perl was built and running
56 <userinput>make test</userinput> now will cause the rest of Perl to be
57 built as well, which is unnecessary at this point. The test suite can
58 be run in the next chapter if desired.</para>
59
60 <para os="i">Install these tools and their libraries:</para>
61
62<screen os="j"><userinput>cp perl pod/pod2man /tools/bin
63install -d /tools/lib/perl5/&perl-version;
64cp -R lib/* /tools/lib/perl5/&perl-version;</userinput></screen>
65
66 </sect2>
67
68 <sect2 role="content">
69 <title/>
70
71 <para>Details on this package are located in <xref
72 linkend="contents-perl" role="."/></para>
73
74 </sect2>
75
76</sect1>
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