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author | Matthew Burgess <matthew@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2004-05-03 10:59:46 +0000 |
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committer | Matthew Burgess <matthew@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2004-05-03 10:59:46 +0000 |
commit | 673b0d84ba9591e07c0bdf0ee49d92eba10f502c (patch) | |
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diff --git a/chapter06/perl.xml b/chapter06/perl.xml index 594d98426..62aa4d9bf 100644 --- a/chapter06/perl.xml +++ b/chapter06/perl.xml @@ -1,25 +1,30 @@ +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> +<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd" [ + <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent"> + %general-entities; +]> <sect1 id="ch-system-perl" xreflabel="Perl"> -<title>Installing Perl-&perl-version;</title> -<?dbhtml filename="perl.html" dir="chapter06"?> +<title>Perl-&perl-version;</title> +<?dbhtml filename="perl.html"?> + +<indexterm zone="ch-system-perl"><primary sortas="a-Perl">Perl</primary></indexterm> <para>The Perl package contains the Practical Extraction and Report Language.</para> -<screen>&buildtime; &perl-time; -&diskspace; &perl-compsize;</screen> +<screen>&buildtime; 2.9 SBU +&diskspace; 143 MB</screen> -<literallayout>Official download location for Perl (&perl-version;): -<ulink url="http://www.perl.com/"/></literallayout> +<para>Perl installation depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, +Gawk, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, Sed.</para> -&aa-perl-dep; -<sect2><title> </title><para> </para></sect2> <sect2> <title>Installation of Perl</title> <para>If you want full control over the way Perl is set up, you can run the interactive <command>Configure</command> script and hand-pick the way this -package is built. If, however, you guess you can live with the (sensible) +package is built. If you think you can live with the (sensible) defaults it auto-detects, then prepare Perl for compilation with:</para> <screen><userinput>./configure.gnu --prefix=/usr -Dpager="/bin/less -isR"</userinput></screen> @@ -46,14 +51,129 @@ resolve the name <emphasis>localhost</emphasis>:</para> <screen><userinput>make test</userinput></screen> -<para>And install the package:</para> +<para>Finally, install the package:</para> <screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen> </sect2> -&aa-perl-shortdesc; -&aa-perl-desc; -</sect1> +<sect2 id="contents-perl"><title>Contents of Perl</title> + +<para><emphasis>Installed programs</emphasis>: 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</para> + +<para><emphasis>Installed libraries</emphasis>: (too many to name)</para> + +</sect2> + +<sect2><title>Short descriptions</title> + +<indexterm zone="ch-system-perl a2p"><primary sortas="b-a2p">a2p</primary></indexterm> +<para id="a2p"><command>a2p</command> translates awk to perl.</para> + +<indexterm zone="ch-system-perl c2ph"><primary sortas="b-c2ph">c2ph</primary></indexterm> +<para id="c2ph"><command>c2ph</command> dumps C structures as generated from +"cc -g -S" stabs.</para> + +<indexterm zone="ch-system-perl dprofpp"><primary sortas="b-dprofpp">dprofpp</primary></indexterm> +<para id="dprofpp"><command>dprofpp</command> displays perl profile data.</para> + +<indexterm zone="ch-system-perl en2cxs"><primary sortas="b-en2cxs">en2cxs</primary></indexterm> +<para id="en2cxs"><command>en2cxs</command> builds a Perl extension for the Encode module, +from either Unicode Character Mappings or Tcl Encoding Files.</para> + +<indexterm zone="ch-system-perl find2perl"><primary sortas="b-find2perl">find2perl</primary></indexterm> +<para id="find2perl"><command>find2perl</command> translates find commands to perl.</para> + +<indexterm zone="ch-system-perl h2ph"><primary sortas="b-h2ph">h2ph</primary></indexterm> +<para id="h2ph"><command>h2ph</command> converts .h C header files to .ph Perl header files.</para> + +<indexterm zone="ch-system-perl h2xs"><primary sortas="b-h2xs">h2xs</primary></indexterm> +<para id="h2xs"><command>h2xs</command> converts .h C header files to Perl extensions.</para> + +<indexterm zone="ch-system-perl libnetcfg"><primary sortas="b-libnetcfg">libnetcfg</primary></indexterm> +<para id="libnetcfg"><command>libnetcfg</command> can be used to configure the libnet.</para> + +<indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perl"><primary sortas="b-perl">perl</primary></indexterm> +<para id="perl"><command>perl</command> combines some of the best features of C, sed, +awk and sh into a single swiss-army language.</para> + +<indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perlbug"><primary sortas="b-perlbug">perlbug</primary></indexterm> +<para id="perlbug"><command>perlbug</command> is used to generate bug reports about +Perl or the modules that come with it, and mail them.</para> + +<indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perlcc"><primary sortas="b-perlcc">perlcc</primary></indexterm> +<para id="perlcc"><command>perlcc</command> generates executables from Perl programs.</para> + +<indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perldoc"><primary sortas="b-perldoc">perldoc</primary></indexterm> +<para id="perldoc"><command>perldoc</command> 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 perlivp"><primary sortas="b-perlivp">perlivp</primary></indexterm> +<para id="perlivp"><command>perlivp</command> is 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 piconv"><primary sortas="b-piconv">piconv</primary></indexterm> +<para id="piconv"><command>piconv</command> is a Perl version of the character encoding +converter <command>iconv</command>.</para> + +<indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pl2pm"><primary sortas="b-pl2pm">pl2pm</primary></indexterm> +<para id="pl2pm"><command>pl2pm</command> is a rough tool for converting Perl4 .pl +files to Perl5 .pm modules.</para> + +<indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pod2html"><primary sortas="b-pod2html">pod2html</primary></indexterm> +<para id="pod2html"><command>pod2html</command> converts files from pod format to HTML +format.</para> + +<indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pod2latex"><primary sortas="b-pod2latex">pod2latex</primary></indexterm> +<para id="pod2latex"><command>pod2latex</command> converts files from pod format to LaTeX +format.</para> + +<indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pod2man"><primary sortas="b-pod2man">pod2man</primary></indexterm> +<para id="pod2man"><command>pod2man</command> converts pod data to formatted *roff +input.</para> + +<indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pod2text"><primary sortas="b-pod2text">pod2text</primary></indexterm> +<para id="pod2text"><command>pod2text</command> converts pod data to formatted ASCII +text.</para> + +<indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pod2usage"><primary sortas="b-pod2usage">pod2usage</primary></indexterm> +<para id="pod2usage"><command>pod2usage</command> prints usage messages from embedded +pod docs in files.</para> + +<indexterm zone="ch-system-perl podchecker"><primary sortas="b-podchecker">podchecker</primary></indexterm> +<para id="podchecker"><command>podchecker</command> checks the syntax of pod format +documentation files.</para> + +<indexterm zone="ch-system-perl podselect"><primary sortas="b-podselect">podselect</primary></indexterm> +<para id="podselect"><command>podselect</command> displays selected sections of pod +documentation.</para> + +<indexterm zone="ch-system-perl psed"><primary sortas="b-psed">psed</primary></indexterm> +<para id="psed"><command>psed</command> is a Perl version of the stream editor +<userinput>sed</userinput>.</para> + +<indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pstruct"><primary sortas="b-pstruct">pstruct</primary></indexterm> +<para id="pstruct"><command>pstruct</command> dumps C structures as generated from +"cc -g -S" stabs.</para> + +<indexterm zone="ch-system-perl s2p"><primary sortas="b-s2p">s2p</primary></indexterm> +<para id="s2p"><command>s2p</command> translates sed to perl.</para> + +<indexterm zone="ch-system-perl splain"><primary sortas="b-splain">splain</primary></indexterm> +<para id="splain"><command>splain</command> is used to force verbose warning +diagnostics in perl.</para> + +<indexterm zone="ch-system-perl xsubpp"><primary sortas="b-xsubpp">xsubpp</primary></indexterm> +<para id="xsubpp"><command>xsubpp</command> converts Perl XS code into C code.</para> + +</sect2> + + + +</sect1> |