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- ]>
- <sect1 id="ch-system-perl" role="wrap">
- <?dbhtml filename="perl.html"?>
- <sect1info condition="script">
- <productname>perl</productname>
- <productnumber>&perl-version;</productnumber>
- <address>&perl-url;</address>
- </sect1info>
- <title>Perl-&perl-version;</title>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl">
- <primary sortas="a-Perl">Perl</primary>
- </indexterm>
- <sect2 role="package">
- <title/>
- <para>The Perl package contains the Practical Extraction and Report
- Language.</para>
- <segmentedlist>
- <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
- <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
- <seglistitem>
- <seg>&perl-ch6-sbu;</seg>
- <seg>&perl-ch6-du;</seg>
- </seglistitem>
- </segmentedlist>
- </sect2>
- <sect2 role="installation">
- <title>Installation of Perl</title>
- <para>First create a basic <filename>/etc/hosts</filename> file to be
- referenced in one of Perl's configuration files as well as the optional
- test suite:</para>
- <screen><userinput remap="pre">echo "127.0.0.1 localhost $(hostname)" > /etc/hosts</userinput></screen>
- <para>This version of Perl now builds the Compress::Raw::Zlib module. By
- default Perl will use an internal copy of the Zlib source for the build.
- Issue the following command so that Perl will use the Zlib library
- installed on the system:</para>
- <screen><userinput remap="pre">sed -i -e "s|BUILD_ZLIB\s*= True|BUILD_ZLIB = False|" \
- -e "s|INCLUDE\s*= ./zlib-src|INCLUDE = /usr/include|" \
- -e "s|LIB\s*= ./zlib-src|LIB = /usr/lib|" \
- cpan/Compress-Raw-Zlib/config.in</userinput></screen>
- <para>To have full control over the way Perl is set up, you can remove the
- <quote>-des</quote> options from the following command and hand-pick the way
- this package is built. Alternatively, use the command exactly as below to
- use the defaults that Perl auto-detects:</para>
- <screen><userinput remap="configure">sh Configure -des -Dprefix=/usr \
- -Dvendorprefix=/usr \
- -Dman1dir=/usr/share/man/man1 \
- -Dman3dir=/usr/share/man/man3 \
- -Dpager="/usr/bin/less -isR" \
- -Duseshrplib</userinput></screen>
- <variablelist>
- <title>The meaning of the configure options:</title>
- <varlistentry>
- <term><parameter>-Dvendorprefix=/usr</parameter></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>This ensures <command>perl</command> knows how to
- tell packages where they should install their perl modules.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term><parameter>-Dpager="/usr/bin/less -isR"</parameter></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>This corrects an error in the way that <command>perldoc</command>
- invokes the <command>less</command> program.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term><parameter>-Dman1dir=/usr/share/man/man1
- -Dman3dir=/usr/share/man/man3</parameter></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Since Groff is not installed yet, <command>Configure</command>
- thinks that we do not want man pages for Perl. Issuing these
- parameters overrides this decision.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term><parameter>-Duseshrplib</parameter></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Build a shared libperl needed by some perl modules.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- </variablelist>
- <para>Compile the package:</para>
- <screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
- <para>To test the results (approximately 2.5 SBU), issue:</para>
- <screen><userinput remap="test">make -k test</userinput></screen>
- <para>Install the package:</para>
- <screen><userinput remap="install">make install</userinput></screen>
- </sect2>
- <sect2 id="contents-perl" role="content">
- <title>Contents of Perl</title>
- <segmentedlist>
- <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
- <segtitle>Installed libraries</segtitle>
- <segtitle>Installed directory</segtitle>
- <seglistitem>
- <seg>a2p, c2ph, config_data, corelist, cpan, cpan2dist, cpanp,
- cpanp-run-perl, dprofpp, enc2xs, find2perl, h2ph, h2xs,
- instmodsh, json_pp, libnetcfg, perl, perl&perl-version; (link to perl),
- perlbug, perldoc, perlivp, perlthanks (link to perlbug), piconv, pl2pm,
- pod2html, pod2latex, pod2man, pod2text, pod2usage, podchecker,
- podselect, prove, psed (link to s2p), pstruct (link to c2ph), ptar,
- ptardiff, ptargrep, s2p, shasum, splain, and xsubpp</seg>
- <seg>Several hundred which cannot all be listed here</seg>
- <seg>/usr/lib/perl5</seg>
- </seglistitem>
- </segmentedlist>
- <variablelist>
- <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
- <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
- <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
- <varlistentry id="a2p">
- <term><command>a2p</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Translates awk to Perl</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl a2p">
- <primary sortas="b-a2p">a2p</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry id="c2ph">
- <term><command>c2ph</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Dumps C structures as generated from
- <command>cc -g -S</command></para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl c2ph">
- <primary sortas="b-c2ph">c2ph</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry id="config_data">
- <term><command>config_data</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Queries or changes configuration of Perl modules</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl config_data">
- <primary sortas="b-config_data">config_data</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry id="corelist">
- <term><command>corelist</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>A commandline frontend to Module::CoreList</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl corelist">
- <primary sortas="b-corelist">corelist</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry id="cpan">
- <term><command>cpan</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Interact with the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN)
- from the command line</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl cpan">
- <primary sortas="b-cpan">cpan</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry id="cpan2dist">
- <term><command>cpan2dist</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>The CPANPLUS distribution creator</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl cpan2dist">
- <primary sortas="b-cpan2dist">cpan2dist</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry id="cpanp">
- <term><command>cpanp</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>The CPANPLUS launcher</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl cpanp">
- <primary sortas="b-cpanp">cpanp</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry id="cpanp-run-perl">
- <term><command>cpanp-run-perl</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Perl script that is used to enable flushing of the output
- buffer after each write in spawned processes</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl cpanp-run-perl">
- <primary sortas="b-cpanp-run-perl">cpanp-run-perl</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry id="dprofpp">
- <term><command>dprofpp</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Displays Perl profile data</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl dprofpp">
- <primary sortas="b-dprofpp">dprofpp</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry id="enc2xs">
- <term><command>enc2xs</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Builds a Perl extension for the Encode module from either
- Unicode Character Mappings or Tcl Encoding Files</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl enc2xs">
- <primary sortas="b-enc2xs">enc2xs</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry id="find2perl">
- <term><command>find2perl</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Translates <command>find</command> commands to Perl</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl find2perl">
- <primary sortas="b-find2perl">find2perl</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry id="h2ph">
- <term><command>h2ph</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Converts <filename class="extension">.h</filename> C header
- files to <filename class="extension">.ph</filename> Perl header
- files</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl h2ph">
- <primary sortas="b-h2ph">h2ph</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry id="h2xs">
- <term><command>h2xs</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Converts <filename class="extension">.h</filename> C header
- files to Perl extensions</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl h2xs">
- <primary sortas="b-h2xs">h2xs</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry id="instmodsh">
- <term><command>instmodsh</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Shell script for examining installed Perl modules,
- and can even create a tarball from an installed module</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl instmodsh">
- <primary sortas="b-instmodsh">instmodsh</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry id="json_pp">
- <term><command>json_pp</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Converts data between certain input and output formats</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl json_pp">
- <primary sortas="b-json_pp">json_pp</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry id="libnetcfg">
- <term><command>libnetcfg</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Can be used to configure the
- <filename class="libraryfile">libnet</filename> Perl module</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl libnetcfg">
- <primary sortas="b-libnetcfg">libnetcfg</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry id="perl">
- <term><command>perl</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Combines some of the best features of C, <command>sed</command>,
- <command>awk</command> and <command>sh</command> into a single
- swiss-army language</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perl">
- <primary sortas="b-perl">perl</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry id="perl-version">
- <term><command>perl&perl-version;</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>A hard link to <command>perl</command></para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perl-version">
- <primary sortas="b-perl&perl-version;">perl&perl-version;</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry id="perlbug">
- <term><command>perlbug</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Used to generate bug reports about Perl, or the modules that come
- with it, and mail them</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perlbug">
- <primary sortas="b-perlbug">perlbug</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry id="perldoc">
- <term><command>perldoc</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Displays a piece of documentation in pod format that is embedded
- in the Perl installation tree or in a Perl script</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perldoc">
- <primary sortas="b-perldoc">perldoc</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry id="perlivp">
- <term><command>perlivp</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>The Perl Installation Verification Procedure; it can be used to
- verify that Perl and its libraries have been installed
- correctly</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perlivp">
- <primary sortas="b-perlivp">perlivp</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry id="perlthanks">
- <term><command>perlthanks</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Used to generate thank you messages to mail to the Perl
- developers</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perlthanks">
- <primary sortas="b-perlthanks">perlthanks</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry id="piconv">
- <term><command>piconv</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>A Perl version of the character encoding converter
- <command>iconv</command></para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl piconv">
- <primary sortas="b-piconv">piconv</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry id="pl2pm">
- <term><command>pl2pm</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>A rough tool for converting Perl4
- <filename class="extension">.pl</filename> files to Perl5
- <filename class="extension">.pm</filename> modules</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pl2pm">
- <primary sortas="b-pl2pm">pl2pm</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry id="pod2html">
- <term><command>pod2html</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Converts files from pod format to HTML format</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pod2html">
- <primary sortas="b-pod2html">pod2html</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry id="pod2latex">
- <term><command>pod2latex</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Converts files from pod format to LaTeX format</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pod2latex">
- <primary sortas="b-pod2latex">pod2latex</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry id="pod2man">
- <term><command>pod2man</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Converts pod data to formatted *roff input</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pod2man">
- <primary sortas="b-pod2man">pod2man</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry id="pod2text">
- <term><command>pod2text</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Converts pod data to formatted ASCII text</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pod2text">
- <primary sortas="b-pod2text">pod2text</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry id="pod2usage">
- <term><command>pod2usage</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Prints usage messages from embedded pod docs in files</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pod2usage">
- <primary sortas="b-pod2usage">pod2usage</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry id="podchecker">
- <term><command>podchecker</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Checks the syntax of pod format documentation files</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl podchecker">
- <primary sortas="b-podchecker">podchecker</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry id="podselect">
- <term><command>podselect</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Displays selected sections of pod documentation</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl podselect">
- <primary sortas="b-podselect">podselect</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry id="prove">
- <term><command>prove</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Command line tool for running tests against the Test::Harness
- module.</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl prove">
- <primary sortas="b-prove">prove</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry id="psed">
- <term><command>psed</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>A Perl version of the stream editor <command>sed</command></para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl psed">
- <primary sortas="b-psed">psed</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry id="pstruct">
- <term><command>pstruct</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Dumps C structures as generated from <command>cc -g -S</command>
- stabs</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pstruct">
- <primary sortas="b-pstruct">pstruct</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry id="ptar">
- <term><command>ptar</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>A <command>tar</command>-like program written in Perl</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl ptar">
- <primary sortas="b-ptar">ptar</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry id="ptardiff">
- <term><command>ptardiff</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>A Perl program that compares an extracted archive with an
- unextracted one</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl ptardiff">
- <primary sortas="b-ptardiff">ptardiff</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry id="ptargrep">
- <term><command>ptargrep</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>A Perl program that applies pattern matching to the contents
- of files in a tar archive</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl ptargrep">
- <primary sortas="b-ptargrep">ptargrep</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry id="s2p">
- <term><command>s2p</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Translates <command>sed</command> scripts to Perl</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl s2p">
- <primary sortas="b-s2p">s2p</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry id="shasum">
- <term><command>shasum</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Prints or checks SHA checksums</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl shasum">
- <primary sortas="b-shasum">shasum</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry id="splain">
- <term><command>splain</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Is used to force verbose warning diagnostics in Perl</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl splain">
- <primary sortas="b-splain">splain</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry id="xsubpp">
- <term><command>xsubpp</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Converts Perl XS code into C code</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl xsubpp">
- <primary sortas="b-xsubpp">xsubpp</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- </variablelist>
- </sect2>
- </sect1>
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