Details on this package are located in Section 6.33.2, “Contents of Perl.”
The Perl package contains the Practical Extraction and Report Language.
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First adapt some hard-wired paths to the C library by applying the following patch:
patch -Np1 -i ../perl-5.8.8-libc-2.patch
Fix an incompatibility with gcc-4.2.1:
mv -v makedepend.SH{,.orig}
sed 's/command /command[ -]/' makedepend.SH.orig > makedepend.SH
Prepare Perl for compilation (make sure to get the 'Data/Dumper Fcntl IO POSIX' part of the command correct—they are all letters):
./configure.gnu --prefix=/tools -Dstatic_ext='Data/Dumper Fcntl IO POSIX'
The meaning of the configure options:
-Dstatic_ext='Data/Dumper Fcntl IO
POSIX'
This tells Perl to build the minimum set of static extensions needed for installing and testing the Coreutils and Glibc packages in the next chapter.
Only a few of the utilities contained in this package need to be built:
make perl utilities
Install these tools and their libraries:
install -v perl pod/pod2man /tools/bin install -vd /tools/lib/perl5/5.8.8 cp -vR lib/* /tools/lib/perl5/5.8.8
Details on this package are located in Section 6.33.2, “Contents of Perl.”