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<sect1 id="ch05-perl">
<title>Installing Perl-&perl-version;</title>
<?dbhtml filename="perl.html" dir="chapter05"?>

<screen>Estimated build time:           &perl-time-tools;
Estimated required disk space:  &perl-compsize-tools;</screen>

<para>For the package details see <xref linkend="contents-perl"/>.</para>

<sect2><title>&nbsp;</title><para>&nbsp;</para></sect2>

<sect2>
<title>Installation of Perl</title>

<para>First adapt some hard-wired paths to the C library:</para>

<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&perl-libc-patch;</userinput></screen>

<para>Now prepare Perl for compilation:</para>

<screen><userinput>./configure.gnu --prefix=/tools -Dstatic_ext='IO Fcntl'</userinput></screen>

<para>The meaning of the configure option:</para>

<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para><userinput>-Dstatic_ext='IO Fcntl'</userinput>: This tells
Perl to build the minimum set of static extensions needed for running the
Coreutils test suite in the next chapter.</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>

<para>Compile only the required tools:</para>

<screen><userinput>make perl utilities</userinput></screen>

<para>Then copy these tools and their libraries:</para>

<screen><userinput>cp perl pod/pod2man /tools/bin
mkdir -p /tools/lib/perl5/&perl-version;
cp -R lib/* /tools/lib/perl5/&perl-version;</userinput></screen>

</sect2>

</sect1>