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  1. <sect1 id="ch06-perl">
  2. <title>Installing Perl-&perl-version;</title>
  3. <?dbhtml filename="perl.html" dir="chapter06"?>
  4. <screen>Estimated build time: &perl-time;
  5. Estimated required disk space: &perl-compsize;</screen>
  6. &aa-perl-shortdesc;
  7. &aa-perl-dep;
  8. <sect2><title>&nbsp;</title><para>&nbsp;</para></sect2>
  9. <sect2>
  10. <title>Installation of Perl</title>
  11. <para>Prepare Perl for compilation:</para>
  12. <screen><userinput>./configure.gnu --prefix=/usr -Dpager="/bin/less -isR"</userinput></screen>
  13. <para>If you want more control over the way Perl sets itself up to be
  14. built, you can run the interactive <userinput>Configure</userinput> script
  15. instead and modify the way Perl is built. If you think you can live with the
  16. (sensible) defaults Perl auto-detects, then just use the command listed
  17. above.</para>
  18. <para>The meaning of the configure option:</para>
  19. <itemizedlist>
  20. <listitem><para><userinput>-Dpager="/bin/less -isR"</userinput>: This corrects
  21. an error in the perldoc code with the invocation of the less
  22. program.</para></listitem>
  23. </itemizedlist>
  24. <para>Compile the package:</para>
  25. <screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
  26. <para>This package has a test suite available which can perform a number of
  27. checks to ensure it built correctly. Should you choose to run it, you first
  28. have to create a basic <filename>/etc/hosts</filename> file, needed by a
  29. couple of tests to resolve the name <emphasis>localhost</emphasis>:</para>
  30. <screen><userinput>echo "127.0.0.1 localhost $(hostname)" &gt; /etc/hosts</userinput></screen>
  31. <para>Now run the tests, if you wish:</para>
  32. <screen><userinput>make test</userinput></screen>
  33. <para>And install the package:</para>
  34. <screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
  35. </sect2>
  36. </sect1>