lfs-book/chapter06/perl-inst.xml

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<title>Installation of Perl</title>

<para>This package requires its patch to be applied before you can
install it. Make sure it's unpacked before running the installation 
commands.</para>

<para>Install Perl by running the following commands:</para>

<para><screen><userinput>./configure.gnu --prefix=/usr &amp;&amp;
make &amp;&amp;
make install</userinput></screen></para>

<para>If you want more control over the way perl sets itself up to be
build, you can run the interactive <userinput>Configure</userinput> script
and modify the way perl is built. If you think you can live with the
(sensible) defaults perl auto-detects, then just use the commands listed
above.</para>

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