Estimated build time: 2.9 SBU Estimated required disk space: 143 MB |
The Perl package contains perl, the Practical Extraction and Report Language. Perl combines some of the best features of C, sed, awk and sh into one powerful language.
Installed programs: a2p, c2ph, dprofpp, enc2xs, find2perl, h2ph, h2xs, libnetcfg, perl, perl5.8.0 (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
Installed libraries: (too many to name)
Perl depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, Gawk, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, Sed.
Prepare Perl for compilation:
./configure.gnu --prefix=/usr |
If you want more control over the way Perl sets itself up to be built, you can run the interactive Configure script instead and modify the way Perl is built. If you think you can live with the (sensible) defaults Perl auto-detects, then just use the command listed above.
Compile the package:
make |
This package has a test suite available which can perform a number of checks to ensure it built correctly. Should you choose to run it, you first have to create a basic /etc/hosts file, needed by a couple of tests to resolve the name localhost:
echo "127.0.0.1 localhost $(hostname)" > /etc/hosts |
Now run the tests, if you wish:
make test |
And install the package:
make install |