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diff --git a/chapter05/perl.xml b/chapter05/perl.xml index d118bb56f..77d619441 100644 --- a/chapter05/perl.xml +++ b/chapter05/perl.xml @@ -7,7 +7,12 @@ <title>Perl-&perl-version;</title> <?dbhtml filename="perl.html"?> +<indexterm zone="ch-tools-perl"> +<primary sortas="a-Perl">Perl</primary> +<secondary>tools</secondary></indexterm> + <sect2 role="package"><title/> +<xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="../chapter06/perl.xml" xpointer="xpointer(/sect1/sect2[1]/para[1])"/> <segmentedlist> <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle> @@ -15,24 +20,45 @@ <seglistitem><seg>0.8 SBU</seg><seg>74 MB</seg></seglistitem> </segmentedlist> +<xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="../chapter06/perl.xml" xpointer="xpointer(/sect1/sect2[1]/segmentedlist[2])"/> + </sect2> <sect2 role="installation"> <title>Installation of Perl</title> -<para>First adapt some hard-wired paths to the C library:</para> +<para>First adapt some hard-wired paths to the C library by applying +the following patch:</para> <screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../perl-&perl-version;-libc-1.patch</userinput></screen> -<para>Now prepare Perl for compilation:</para> +<para>Prepare Perl for compilation (make sure to get the 'IO Fcntl POSIX' +part of the command correct—they are all letters):</para> <screen><userinput>./configure.gnu --prefix=/tools -Dstatic_ext='IO Fcntl POSIX'</userinput></screen> +<para>The meaning of the configure option:</para> + +<variablelist> +<varlistentry> +<term><parameter>-Dstatic_ext='IO Fcntl POSIX'</parameter></term> +<listitem><para>This tells Perl to build the minimum set of static +extensions needed for installing and testing the Coreutils package in +the next chapter.</para></listitem> +</varlistentry> +</variablelist> + <para>Compile only the required tools:</para> <screen><userinput>make perl utilities</userinput></screen> -<para>Then copy these tools and their libraries:</para> +<para>Although Perl comes with a test suite, it is not recommended to +run it at this point. Only part of Perl was built and running +<userinput>make test</userinput> now will cause the rest of Perl to be +built as well, which is unnecessary at this point. The test suite can +be run in the next chapter if desired.</para> + +<para>Copy these tools and their libraries:</para> <screen><userinput>cp perl pod/pod2man /tools/bin mkdir -p /tools/lib/perl5/&perl-version; @@ -40,4 +66,10 @@ cp -R lib/* /tools/lib/perl5/&perl-version;</userinput></screen> </sect2> +<sect2 role="content"><title/> +<para>Details on this package are located in <xref +linkend="contents-perl" role="."/></para> +</sect2> + </sect1> + |