Installing Perl-5.8.0

Estimated build time:           2.7 SBU
Estimated required disk space:  52 MB

Contents of Perl

(Last checked against version 5.6.1.)

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.

Perl installs the following:

Program files and libraries

a2p, c2ph, dprofpp, find2perl, h2ph, h2xs, perl, perl5.6.1, perlbug, perlcc, perldoc, pl2pm, pod2html, pod2latex, pod2man, pod2text, pod2usage, podchecker, podselect, pstruct, s2p, splain,attrs.so, B.so, ByteLoader.so, DProf.so, Dumper.so, DynaLoader.a, Fcntl.so, Glob.so, Hostname.so, IO.so, libperl.a, Opcode.so, Peek.so, POSIX.so, re.so, SDBM_File.so, Socket.so, Syslog.so and SysV.so

Perl Installation Dependencies

(Last checked against version 5.6.1.)

Bash: sh
Binutils: ar, as, ld, nm
Coreutils: basename, cat, chmod, comm, cp, date, echo, expr, hostname, ln,
             ls, mkdir, mv, pwd, rm, sort, split, touch, tr, uname, wc,
             whoami, uniq
Diffutils: cmp
Gawk: awk
GCC: cc, cc1, collect2, cpp0, gcc
Grep: egrep, grep
Make: make
Sed: sed

Installation of Perl

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 testsuite available which can perform a number of checks to ensure it built correctly. Should you choose to run it, the following command will do so:

make test

And install the package:

make install