lfs-book/chapter05/perl.xml

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<title>Perl-&perl-version;</title>
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<primary sortas="a-Perl">Perl</primary>
<secondary>tools</secondary></indexterm>

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<sect2>
<title>Installation of Perl</title>

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

<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../perl-&perl-version;-libc-1.patch</userinput></screen>

<para>Perl insists on using the <command>arch</command> program to find out
the machine type. Create a little script to mimic this command:</para>

<screen><userinput>echo "uname -m" &gt; /tools/bin/arch
chmod 755 /tools/bin/arch</userinput></screen>

<para>Now prepare Perl for compilation (make sure you get the 'IO Fcntl POSIX'
right, they are all letters):</para>

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

<para>The meaning of the configure option:</para>

<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para><userinput>-Dstatic_ext='IO Fcntl POSIX'</userinput>: 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>
</itemizedlist>

<para>Compile only the required tools:</para>

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

<para>Then copy these tools and their libraries:</para>

<screen><userinput>cp perl pod/pod2man /tools/bin
mkdir -p /tools/lib/perl5/&perl-version;
cp -R lib/* /tools/lib/perl5/&perl-version;</userinput></screen>

</sect2>

<sect2><title> </title><para> </para>
<para>The details on this package are found in <xref linkend="contents-perl"/>.</para>
<para> </para></sect2>

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