lfs-book/chapter05/perl.xml

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  <title>Perl-&perl-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="ch-tools-perl">
    <primary sortas="a-Perl">Perl</primary>
    <secondary>tools</secondary>
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    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
      <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>0.8 SBU</seg>
        <seg>79.8 MB</seg>
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  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of Perl</title>

    <para>First adapt some hard-wired paths to the C library by applying
    the following patch:</para>

<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&perl-libc-patch;</userinput></screen>

    <para>Prepare Perl for compilation (make sure to get the
    'Data/Dumper Fcntl IO POSIX' part of the command correct&mdash;they are all
    letters):</para>

<screen><userinput>./configure.gnu --prefix=/tools -Dstatic_ext='Data/Dumper Fcntl IO POSIX'</userinput></screen>

    <variablelist>
      <title>The meaning of the configure options:</title>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><parameter>-Dstatic_ext='Data/Dumper Fcntl IO POSIX'</parameter></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>This tells Perl to build the minimum set of static extensions
          needed for installing and testing the Coreutils package in the next
          chapter.</para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

    <para>Only a few of the utilities contained in this package need to be
    built:</para>

<screen><userinput>make perl utilities</userinput></screen>

    <para>Although Perl comes with a test suite, it is not recommended to
    run it at this point. Only part of Perl was built and running
    <userinput>make test</userinput> now will cause the rest of Perl to be
    built as well, which is unnecessary at this point. The test suite can
    be run in the next chapter if desired.</para>

    <para>Install these tools and their libraries:</para>

<screen><userinput>cp -v perl pod/pod2man /tools/bin
mkdir -pv /tools/lib/perl5/&perl-version;
cp -Rv lib/* /tools/lib/perl5/&perl-version;</userinput></screen>

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    <title/>

    <para>Details on this package are located in
    <xref linkend="contents-perl" role="."/></para>

  </sect2>

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