Estimated build time: 2.7 SBU Estimated required disk space: 52 MB |
(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:
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
(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
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, the following command will do so:
make test |
And install the package:
make install |