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authorManuel Canales Esparcia <manuel@linuxfromscratch.org>2006-02-07 19:39:29 +0000
committerManuel Canales Esparcia <manuel@linuxfromscratch.org>2006-02-07 19:39:29 +0000
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
-<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd" [
+<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN"
+ "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd" [
<!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
%general-entities;
]>
+
<sect1 id="ch-system-perl" role="wrap">
-<title>Perl-&perl-version;</title>
-<?dbhtml filename="perl.html"?>
+ <?dbhtml filename="perl.html"?>
+
+ <title>Perl-&perl-version;</title>
+
+ <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl">
+ <primary sortas="a-Perl">Perl</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+
+ <sect2 role="package">
+ <title/>
-<indexterm zone="ch-system-perl"><primary sortas="a-Perl">Perl</primary></indexterm>
+ <para>The Perl package contains the Practical Extraction and Report
+ Language.</para>
-<sect2 role="package"><title/>
-<para>The Perl package contains the Practical Extraction and Report Language.</para>
+ <segmentedlist>
+ <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
+ <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
-<segmentedlist>
-<segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
-<segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
-<seglistitem><seg>2.9 SBU</seg><seg>137 MB</seg></seglistitem>
-</segmentedlist>
+ <seglistitem>
+ <seg>2.9 SBU</seg>
+ <seg>137 MB</seg>
+ </seglistitem>
+ </segmentedlist>
-<segmentedlist>
-<segtitle>&dependencies;</segtitle>
-<seglistitem><seg>Bash, Berkeley DB, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils,
-Gawk, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, and Sed</seg></seglistitem>
-</segmentedlist>
-</sect2>
+ <segmentedlist>
+ <segtitle>&dependencies;</segtitle>
-<sect2 role="installation">
-<title>Installation of Perl</title>
+ <seglistitem>
+ <seg>Bash, Berkeley DB, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, Gawk, GCC,
+ Glibc, Grep, Make, and Sed</seg>
+ </seglistitem>
+ </segmentedlist>
-<para>A security vulnerability exists in Perl's sprintf function. Apply the
-following patch to fix it.</para>
+ </sect2>
+
+ <sect2 role="installation">
+ <title>Installation of Perl</title>
+
+ <para>A security vulnerability exists in Perl's sprintf function. Apply the
+ following patch to fix it.</para>
<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&perl-sprintf-patch;</userinput></screen>
-<para>The DB_File module that comes with Perl-&perl-version; is incompatible
-with Berkeley DB-&db-version; (the testsuite fails if this module gets built).
-Apply the following patch in order to update the DB_File module:</para>
+ <para>The DB_File module that comes with Perl-&perl-version; is incompatible
+ with Berkeley DB-&db-version; (the testsuite fails if this module gets built).
+ Apply the following patch in order to update the DB_File module:</para>
<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&perl-db_file-patch;</userinput></screen>
-<para>First create a basic <filename>/etc/hosts</filename> file which will be
-referenced in one of Perl's configuration files as well as being used used by
-the testsuite if you run that.</para>
+ <para>First create a basic <filename>/etc/hosts</filename> file which will be
+ referenced in one of Perl's configuration files as well as being used used by
+ the testsuite if you run that.</para>
<screen><userinput>echo "127.0.0.1 localhost $(hostname)" &gt; /etc/hosts</userinput></screen>
-<para>To have full control over the way Perl is set up, run the
-interactive <command>Configure</command> script and hand-pick the way
-this package is built. If the defaults it auto-detects are suitable,
-prepare Perl for compilation with:</para>
+ <para>To have full control over the way Perl is set up, run the
+ interactive <command>Configure</command> script and hand-pick the way
+ this package is built. If the defaults it auto-detects are suitable,
+ prepare Perl for compilation with:</para>
<screen><userinput>./configure.gnu --prefix=/usr -Dpager="/usr/bin/less -isR"</userinput></screen>
-<para>The meaning of the configure options:</para>
+ <variablelist>
+ <title>The meaning of the configure options:</title>
-<variablelist>
-<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>
-</variablelist>
+ <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>
-<para>Compile the package:</para>
+ </variablelist>
+
+ <para>Compile the package:</para>
<screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
-<para>Now run the tests, if desired:</para>
+ <para>Now run the tests, if desired:</para>
<screen><userinput>make test</userinput></screen>
-<para>Install the package:</para>
+ <para>Install the package:</para>
<screen><userinput>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>
-<seglistitem><seg>a2p, c2ph, dprofpp, enc2xs,
-find2perl, h2ph, h2xs, libnetcfg, perl, perl&perl-version; (link to perl),
-perlbug, perlcc, perldoc, perlivp, piconv, pl2pm, pod2html, pod2latex, pod2man,
-pod2text, pod2usage, podchecker, podselect, psed (link to s2p), pstruct (link
-to c2ph), s2p, splain, and xsubpp</seg>
-<seg>Several hundred which cannot all be listed here</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="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="en2cxs">
-<term><command>en2cxs</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 en2cxs"><primary sortas="b-en2cxs">en2cxs</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="libnetcfg">
-<term><command>libnetcfg</command></term>
-<listitem>
-<para>Can be used to configure the <filename class="libraryfile">libnet</filename></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="perlcc">
-<term><command>perlcc</command></term>
-<listitem>
-<para>Generates executables from Perl programs</para>
-<indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perlcc"><primary sortas="b-perlcc">perlcc</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="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="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="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="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>
+ </sect2>
+
+ <sect2 id="contents-perl" role="content">
+ <title>Contents of Perl</title>
+
+ <segmentedlist>
+ <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
+ <segtitle>Installed libraries</segtitle>
+
+ <seglistitem>
+ <seg>a2p, c2ph, dprofpp, enc2xs, find2perl, h2ph, h2xs, libnetcfg, perl,
+ perl&perl-version; (link to perl), perlbug, perlcc, perldoc, perlivp,
+ piconv, pl2pm, pod2html, pod2latex, pod2man, pod2text, pod2usage,
+ podchecker, podselect, psed (link to s2p), pstruct (link to c2ph), s2p,
+ splain, and xsubpp</seg>
+ <seg>Several hundred which cannot all be listed here</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="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="en2cxs">
+ <term><command>en2cxs</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 en2cxs">
+ <primary sortas="b-en2cxs">en2cxs</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="libnetcfg">
+ <term><command>libnetcfg</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Can be used to configure the
+ <filename class="libraryfile">libnet</filename></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="perlcc">
+ <term><command>perlcc</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Generates executables from Perl programs</para>
+ <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perlcc">
+ <primary sortas="b-perlcc">perlcc</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="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="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="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="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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