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6.40.1. Installation of Perl
First create a basic /etc/hosts file to be referenced in one of Perl's configuration files as well as the optional test suite:
echo "127.0.0.1 localhost $(hostname)" > /etc/hosts
echo "127.0.0.1 localhost $(hostname)" > /etc/hosts
This version of Perl now builds the Compress::Raw::Zlib and Compress::Raw::BZip2 modules. By default Perl will use an internal copy of the sources for the build. Issue the following command so that Perl will use the libraries installed on the system:
export BUILD_ZLIB=False export BUILD_BZIP2=0
export BUILD_ZLIB=False export BUILD_BZIP2=0
To have full control over the way Perl is set up, you can remove the “-des” 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:
sh Configure -des -Dprefix=/usr \
-Dvendorprefix=/usr \
-Dman1dir=/usr/share/man/man1 \
-Dman3dir=/usr/share/man/man3 \
-Dpager="/usr/bin/less -isR" \
-Duseshrplib \
-Dusethreads
sh Configure -des -Dprefix=/usr \
-Dvendorprefix=/usr \
-Dman1dir=/usr/share/man/man1 \
-Dman3dir=/usr/share/man/man3 \
-Dpager="/usr/bin/less -isR" \
-Duseshrplib \
-Dusethreads
The meaning of the configure options:
-Dvendorprefix=/usr
This ensures perl knows how to tell packages where they should install their perl modules.
-Dpager="/usr/bin/less -isR"
This ensures that less is used instead of more.
-Dman1dir=/usr/share/man/man1 -Dman3dir=/usr/share/man/man3
Since Groff is not installed yet, Configure thinks that we do not want man pages for Perl. Issuing these parameters overrides this decision.
-Duseshrplib
Build a shared libperl needed by some perl modules.
-Dusethreads
Build perl with support for threads.
Compile the package:
make
make
To test the results (approximately 11 SBU), issue:
make -k test
make -k test
Note
One test fails due to using the most recent version of gdbm.
Note
One test fails due to using the most recent version of gdbm.
Install the package and clean up:
make install
unset BUILD_ZLIB BUILD_BZIP2
make install
unset BUILD_ZLIB BUILD_BZIP2