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diff --git a/chapter08/perl.xml b/chapter08/perl.xml
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@@ -49,25 +49,26 @@
<screen><userinput remap="pre">export BUILD_ZLIB=False
export BUILD_BZIP2=0</userinput></screen>
-<!--
- <para>Apply a patch to allow the Errno.pm module and the h2ph
- program to build correctly when building with GCC 5:</para>
-
-<screen><userinput remap="pre">patch -Np1 -i ../&perl-gcc5-fixes-patch;</userinput></screen>
--->
<para>To have full control over the way Perl is set up, you can remove the
<quote>-des</quote> options from the following command and hand-pick the way
this package is built. Alternatively, use the command exactly as below to
use the defaults that Perl auto-detects:</para>
-<screen><userinput remap="configure">sh Configure -des -Dprefix=/usr \
- -Dvendorprefix=/usr \
- -Dman1dir=/usr/share/man/man1 \
- -Dman3dir=/usr/share/man/man3 \
- -Dpager="/usr/bin/less -isR" \
- -Duseshrplib \
- -Dusethreads</userinput></screen>
+ <screen><userinput remap="configure">sh Configure -des \
+ -Dprefix=/usr \
+ -Dvendorprefix=/usr \
+ -Dprivlib=/usr/share/perl5/core_perl \
+ -Darchlib=/usr/lib/perl5/&perl-version-min;/core_perl \
+ -Dsitelib=/usr/share/perl5/site_perl \
+ -Dsitearch=/usr/lib/perl5/&perl-version-min;/site_perl \
+ -Dvendorlib=/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl \
+ -Dvendorarch=/usr/lib/perl5/&perl-version-min;/vendor_perl \
+ -Dman1dir=/usr/share/man/man1 \
+ -Dman3dir=/usr/share/man/man3 \
+ -Dpager="/usr/bin/less -isR" \
+ -Duseshrplib \
+ -Dusethreads</userinput></screen>
<variablelist>
<title>The meaning of the configure options:</title>
@@ -112,6 +113,17 @@ export BUILD_BZIP2=0</userinput></screen>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><parameter>-Dprivlib,-Darchlib,-Dsitelib,...</parameter></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>These settings define where Perl is looking for installed
+ modules. The LFS editors chose to put them in a directory structure
+ based on the Major.Minor version of Perl (&perl-version-min;) which
+ allows upgrading Perl to newer Patch levels (&perl-version;) without
+ the need to reinstall all of the modules again.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
</variablelist>
<para>Compile the package:</para>