Installing Perl-5.8.0

Estimated build time:           3.81 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
Diffutils: cmp
Fileutils: chmod, cp, ln, ls, mkdir, mv, rm, touch
Gcc: cc, cc1, collect2, cpp0, gcc
Grep: egrep, grep
Make: make
Gawk: awk
Sed: sed
Sh-utils: basename, date, echo, expr, hostname, pwd, uname, whoami
Textutils: cat, comm, sort, split, tr, uniq, wc

 

Installation of Perl

Prepare Perl to be compiled:

./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.

Continue with compiling the package:

make

And finish off installing the package:

make install