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authorMatthew Burgess <matthew@linuxfromscratch.org>2004-05-03 10:59:46 +0000
committerMatthew Burgess <matthew@linuxfromscratch.org>2004-05-03 10:59:46 +0000
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@@ -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>&nbsp;</title><para>&nbsp;</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>