perl modules

Introduction to perl modules

The perl module packages add useful objects to the Perl language. Modules utilized by packages throughout BLFS are listed here along with their dependencies.

PDL-2.3.4
	Astro-FITS-Header-2.2
Gtk-Perl-0.7008
	XML-Writer-0.4
	XML-Parser-2.31
Parse-RecDescent-1.80

Installation of perl modules

Install perl modules by running the following commands:

perl Makefile.PL &&
make &&
make install

Below are installation instructions for modules that happen to be broken at the present time.

Gtk-Perl-0.7008:
perl Makefile.PL --without-guessing &&
make
cp Gtk/Makefile Gtk/Makefile.bak &&
sed '/^OBJECT/s/xs/./g' Gtk/Makefile.bak > Gtk/Makefile &&
cp Gtk/Makefile Gtk/Makefile.bak &&
sed '/^OBJECT/s/build/./g' Gtk/Makefile.bak > Gtk/Makefile &&
make &&
make install