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1 | =head1 NAME |
2 | |
3 | Install - Build and Installation guide for perl5. |
4 | |
5 | =head1 SYNOPSIS |
6 | |
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7 | The basic steps to build and install perl5 on a Unix system are: |
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8 | |
9 | rm -f config.sh |
10 | sh Configure |
11 | make |
12 | make test |
13 | make install |
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14 | # possibly add these: |
15 | (cd /usr/include && h2ph *.h sys/*.h) |
16 | cd pod; make html && mv *.html <www home dir> && cd .. |
17 | cd pod; make tex && <process the latex files> && cd .. |
18 | |
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19 | |
20 | Each of these is explained in further detail below. |
21 | |
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22 | For information on non-Unix systems, see the section on |
23 | L<"Porting Information">, below. |
24 | |
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25 | =head1 DESCRIPTION |
26 | |
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27 | You should probably at least skim through this entire document before |
28 | proceeding. Special notes specific to this release are identified |
29 | by B<NOTE>. |
30 | |
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31 | This document is written in pod format as an easy way to indicate its |
32 | structure. The pod format is described in pod/perlpod.pod, but you can |
33 | read it as is with any pager or editor. |
34 | |
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35 | If you're building Perl on a non-Unix system, you should also read |
36 | the README file specific to your operating system, since this may |
37 | provide additional or different instructions for building Perl. |
38 | |
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39 | =head1 Space Requirements. |
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40 | |
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41 | The complete perl5 source tree takes up about 7 MB of disk space. |
42 | The complete tree after completing C<make> takes roughly |
43 | 15 MB, though the actual total is likely to be quite |
44 | system-dependent. The installation directories need something |
45 | on the order of 7 MB, though again that value is system-dependent. |
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46 | |
47 | =head1 Start with a Fresh Distribution. |
48 | |
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49 | If you have built perl before, you should clean out the build directory |
50 | with the command |
51 | |
52 | make realclean |
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53 | |
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54 | The results of a Configure run are stored in the config.sh file. If |
55 | you are upgrading from a previous version of perl, or if you change |
56 | systems or compilers or make other significant changes, or if you are |
57 | experiencing difficulties building perl, you should probably I<not> |
58 | re-use your old config.sh. Simply remove it or rename it, e.g. |
59 | |
60 | mv config.sh config.sh.old |
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61 | |
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62 | If you wish to use your old config.sh, be especially attentive to the |
63 | version and architecture-specific questions and answers. For example, |
64 | the default directory for architecture-dependent library modules |
65 | includes the version name. By default, Configure will reuse your old |
66 | name (e.g. /opt/perl/lib/i86pc-solaris/5.003) even if you're running |
67 | Configure for a different version, e.g. 5.004. Yes, Configure should |
68 | probably check and correct for this, but it doesn't, presently. |
69 | Similarly, if you used a shared libperl.so (see below) with version |
70 | numbers, you will probably want to adjust them as well. |
71 | |
72 | Also, be careful to check your architecture name. Some Linux systems |
73 | call themselves i486, while others use i586. If you pick up a |
74 | precompiled binary, it might not use the same name. |
75 | |
76 | In short, if you wish to use your old config.sh, I recommend running |
77 | Configure interactively rather than blindly accepting the defaults. |
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78 | |
79 | =head1 Run Configure. |
80 | |
81 | Configure will figure out various things about your system. Some |
82 | things Configure will figure out for itself, other things it will ask |
83 | you about. To accept the default, just press C<RETURN>. The default |
84 | is almost always ok. |
85 | |
86 | After it runs, Configure will perform variable substitution on all the |
87 | F<*.SH> files and offer to run B<make depend>. |
88 | |
89 | Configure supports a number of useful options. Run B<Configure -h> |
90 | to get a listing. To compile with gcc, for example, you can run |
91 | |
92 | sh Configure -Dcc=gcc |
93 | |
94 | This is the preferred way to specify gcc (or another alternative |
95 | compiler) so that the hints files can set appropriate defaults. |
96 | |
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97 | If you want to use your old config.sh but override some of the items |
98 | with command line options, you need to use B<Configure -O>. |
99 | |
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100 | If you are willing to accept all the defaults, and you want terse |
101 | output, you can run |
102 | |
103 | sh Configure -des |
104 | |
105 | By default, for most systems, perl will be installed in |
106 | /usr/local/{bin, lib, man}. You can specify a different 'prefix' for |
107 | the default installation directory, when Configure prompts you or by |
108 | using the Configure command line option -Dprefix='/some/directory', |
109 | e.g. |
110 | |
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111 | sh Configure -Dprefix=/opt/perl |
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112 | |
113 | If your prefix contains the string "perl", then the directories |
114 | are simplified. For example, if you use prefix=/opt/perl, |
115 | then Configure will suggest /opt/perl/lib instead of |
116 | /usr/local/lib/perl5/. |
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117 | |
118 | By default, Configure will compile perl to use dynamic loading, if |
119 | your system supports it. If you want to force perl to be compiled |
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120 | statically, you can either choose this when Configure prompts you or |
121 | you can use the Configure command line option -Uusedl. |
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122 | |
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123 | =head2 Extensions |
124 | |
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125 | By default, Configure will offer to build every extension which appears |
126 | to be supported. For example, Configure will offer to build GDBM_File |
127 | only if it is able to find the gdbm library. (See examples below.) |
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128 | DynaLoader, Fcntl, and IO are always built by default. Configure does |
129 | not contain code to test for POSIX compliance, so POSIX is always built |
130 | by default as well. If you wish to skip POSIX, you can set the |
131 | Configure variable useposix=false either in a hint file or from the |
132 | Configure command line. Similarly, the Opcode extension is always built |
133 | by default, but you can skip it by setting the Configure variable |
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134 | useopcode=false either in a hint file for from the command line. |
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135 | |
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136 | Even if you do not have dynamic loading, you must still build the |
137 | DynaLoader extension; you should just build the stub dl_none.xs |
138 | version. (Configure will suggest this as the default.) |
139 | |
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140 | In summary, here are the Configure command-line variables you can set |
141 | to turn off each extension: |
142 | |
143 | DB_File i_db |
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144 | DynaLoader (Must always be included as a static extension) |
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145 | Fcntl (Always included by default) |
146 | GDBM_File i_gdbm |
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147 | IO (Always included by default) |
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148 | NDBM_File i_ndbm |
149 | ODBM_File i_dbm |
150 | POSIX useposix |
151 | SDBM_File (Always included by default) |
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152 | Opcode useopcode |
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153 | Socket d_socket |
154 | |
155 | Thus to skip the NDBM_File extension, you can use |
156 | |
157 | sh Configure -Ui_ndbm |
158 | |
159 | Again, this is taken care of automatically if you don't have the ndbm |
160 | library. |
161 | |
162 | Of course, you may always run Configure interactively and select only |
163 | the Extensions you want. |
164 | |
165 | Finally, if you have dynamic loading (most modern Unix systems do) |
166 | remember that these extensions do not increase the size of your perl |
167 | executable, nor do they impact start-up time, so you probably might as |
168 | well build all the ones that will work on your system. |
169 | |
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170 | =head2 GNU-style configure |
171 | |
172 | If you prefer the GNU-style B<configure> command line interface, you can |
173 | use the supplied B<configure> command, e.g. |
174 | |
175 | CC=gcc ./configure |
176 | |
177 | The B<configure> script emulates several of the more common configure |
178 | options. Try |
179 | |
180 | ./configure --help |
181 | |
182 | for a listing. |
183 | |
184 | Cross compiling is currently not supported. |
185 | |
186 | =head2 Including locally-installed libraries |
187 | |
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188 | Perl5 comes with interfaces to number of database extensions, including |
189 | dbm, ndbm, gdbm, and Berkeley db. For each extension, if |
190 | Configure can find the appropriate header files and libraries, it will |
191 | automatically include that extension. The gdbm and db libraries |
192 | are B<not> included with perl. See the library documentation for |
193 | how to obtain the libraries. |
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194 | |
195 | I<Note:> If your database header (.h) files are not in a |
196 | directory normally searched by your C compiler, then you will need to |
197 | include the appropriate B<-I/your/directory> option when prompted by |
198 | Configure. If your database library (.a) files are not in a directory |
199 | normally searched by your C compiler and linker, then you will need to |
200 | include the appropriate B<-L/your/directory> option when prompted by |
201 | Configure. See the examples below. |
202 | |
203 | =head2 Examples |
204 | |
205 | =over 4 |
206 | |
207 | =item gdbm in /usr/local. |
208 | |
209 | Suppose you have gdbm and want Configure to find it and build the |
210 | GDBM_File extension. This examples assumes you have F<gdbm.h> |
211 | installed in F</usr/local/include/gdbm.h> and F<libgdbm.a> installed in |
212 | F</usr/local/lib/libgdbm.a>. Configure should figure all the |
213 | necessary steps out automatically. |
214 | |
215 | Specifically, when Configure prompts you for flags for |
216 | your C compiler, you should include C<-I/usr/local/include>. |
217 | |
218 | When Configure prompts you for linker flags, you should include |
219 | C<-L/usr/local/lib>. |
220 | |
221 | If you are using dynamic loading, then when Configure prompts you for |
222 | linker flags for dynamic loading, you should again include |
223 | C<-L/usr/local/lib>. |
224 | |
225 | Again, this should all happen automatically. If you want to accept the |
226 | defaults for all the questions and have Configure print out only terse |
227 | messages, then you can just run |
228 | |
229 | sh Configure -des |
230 | |
231 | and Configure should include the GDBM_File extension automatically. |
232 | |
233 | This should actually work if you have gdbm installed in any of |
234 | (/usr/local, /opt/local, /usr/gnu, /opt/gnu, /usr/GNU, or /opt/GNU). |
235 | |
236 | =item gdbm in /usr/you |
237 | |
238 | Suppose you have gdbm installed in some place other than /usr/local/, |
239 | but you still want Configure to find it. To be specific, assume you |
240 | have F</usr/you/include/gdbm.h> and F</usr/you/lib/libgdbm.a>. You |
241 | still have to add B<-I/usr/you/include> to cc flags, but you have to take |
242 | an extra step to help Configure find F<libgdbm.a>. Specifically, when |
243 | Configure prompts you for library directories, you have to add |
244 | F</usr/you/lib> to the list. |
245 | |
246 | It is possible to specify this from the command line too (all on one |
247 | line): |
248 | |
249 | sh Configure -des \ |
250 | -Dlocincpth="/usr/you/include" \ |
251 | -Dloclibpth="/usr/you/lib" |
252 | |
253 | C<locincpth> is a space-separated list of include directories to search. |
254 | Configure will automatically add the appropriate B<-I> directives. |
255 | |
256 | C<loclibpth> is a space-separated list of library directories to search. |
257 | Configure will automatically add the appropriate B<-L> directives. If |
258 | you have some libraries under F</usr/local/> and others under |
259 | F</usr/you>, then you have to include both, namely |
260 | |
261 | sh Configure -des \ |
262 | -Dlocincpth="/usr/you/include /usr/local/include" \ |
263 | -Dloclibpth="/usr/you/lib /usr/local/lib" |
264 | |
265 | =back |
266 | |
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267 | =head2 Installation Directories. |
268 | |
269 | The installation directories can all be changed by answering the |
270 | appropriate questions in Configure. For convenience, all the |
271 | installation questions are near the beginning of Configure. |
272 | |
273 | By default, Configure uses the following directories for |
274 | library files (archname is a string like sun4-sunos, determined |
275 | by Configure) |
276 | |
277 | /usr/local/lib/perl5/archname/5.002 |
278 | /usr/local/lib/perl5/ |
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279 | /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/archname |
280 | /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl |
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281 | |
282 | and the following directories for manual pages: |
283 | |
284 | /usr/local/man/man1 |
285 | /usr/local/lib/perl5/man/man3 |
286 | |
287 | (Actually, Configure recognizes the SVR3-style |
288 | /usr/local/man/l_man/man1 directories, if present, and uses those |
289 | instead.) The module man pages are stuck in that strange spot so that |
290 | they don't collide with other man pages stored in /usr/local/man/man3, |
291 | and so that Perl's man pages don't hide system man pages. On some |
292 | systems, B<man less> would end up calling up Perl's less.pm module man |
293 | page, rather than the B<less> program. |
294 | |
295 | If you specify a prefix that contains the string "perl", then the |
296 | directory structure is simplified. For example, if you Configure |
297 | with -Dprefix=/opt/perl, then the defaults are |
298 | |
299 | /opt/perl/lib/archname/5.002 |
300 | /opt/perl/lib |
301 | /opt/perl/lib/site_perl/archname |
302 | /opt/perl/lib/site_perl |
303 | |
304 | /opt/perl/man/man1 |
305 | /opt/perl/man/man3 |
306 | |
307 | The perl executable will search the libraries in the order given |
308 | above. |
309 | |
310 | The directories site_perl and site_perl/archname are empty, but are |
311 | intended to be used for installing local or site-wide extensions. Perl |
312 | will automatically look in these directories. Previously, most sites |
313 | just put their local extensions in with the standard distribution. |
314 | |
315 | In order to support using things like #!/usr/local/bin/perl5.002 after |
316 | a later version is released, architecture-dependent libraries are |
317 | stored in a version-specific directory, such as |
318 | /usr/local/lib/perl5/archname/5.002/. In 5.000 and 5.001, these files |
319 | were just stored in /usr/local/lib/perl5/archname/. If you will not be |
320 | using 5.001 binaries, you can delete the standard extensions from the |
321 | /usr/local/lib/perl5/archname/ directory. Locally-added extensions can |
322 | be moved to the site_perl and site_perl/archname directories. |
323 | |
324 | Again, these are just the defaults, and can be changed as you run |
325 | Configure. |
326 | |
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327 | =head2 Changing the installation directory |
328 | |
329 | Configure distinguishes between the directory in which perl (and its |
330 | associated files) should be installed and the directory in which it |
331 | will eventually reside. For most sites, these two are the same; for |
332 | sites that use AFS, this distinction is handled automatically. |
333 | However, sites that use software such as B<depot> to manage software |
334 | packages may also wish to install perl into a different directory and |
335 | use that management software to move perl to its final destination. |
336 | This section describes how to do this. Someday, Configure may support |
337 | an option C<-Dinstallprefix=/foo> to simplify this. |
338 | |
339 | Suppose you want to install perl under the F</tmp/perl5> directory. |
340 | You can edit F<config.sh> and change all the install* variables to |
341 | point to F</tmp/perl5> instead of F</usr/local/wherever>. You could |
342 | also set them all from the Configure command line. Or, you can |
343 | automate this process by placing the following lines in a file |
344 | F<config.over> B<before> you run Configure (replace /tmp/perl5 by a |
345 | directory of your choice): |
346 | |
347 | installprefix=/tmp/perl5 |
348 | test -d $installprefix || mkdir $installprefix |
349 | test -d $installprefix/bin || mkdir $installprefix/bin |
350 | installarchlib=`echo $installarchlib | sed "s!$prefix!$installprefix!"` |
351 | installbin=`echo $installbin | sed "s!$prefix!$installprefix!"` |
352 | installman1dir=`echo $installman1dir | sed "s!$prefix!$installprefix!"` |
353 | installman3dir=`echo $installman3dir | sed "s!$prefix!$installprefix!"` |
354 | installprivlib=`echo $installprivlib | sed "s!$prefix!$installprefix!"` |
355 | installscript=`echo $installscript | sed "s!$prefix!$installprefix!"` |
356 | installsitelib=`echo $installsitelib | sed "s!$prefix!$installprefix!"` |
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357 | installsitearch=`echo $installsitearch | sed "s!$prefix!$installprefix!"` |
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358 | |
359 | Then, you can Configure and install in the usual way: |
360 | |
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361 | sh Configure -des |
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362 | make |
363 | make test |
364 | make install |
365 | |
366 | =head2 Creating an installable tar archive |
367 | |
368 | If you need to install perl on many identical systems, it is |
369 | convenient to compile it once and create an archive that can be |
370 | installed on multiple systems. Here's one way to do that: |
371 | |
372 | # Set up config.over to install perl into a different directory, |
373 | # e.g. /tmp/perl5 (see previous part). |
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374 | sh Configure -des |
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375 | make |
376 | make test |
377 | make install |
378 | cd /tmp/perl5 |
379 | tar cvf ../perl5-archive.tar . |
380 | # Then, on each machine where you want to install perl, |
381 | cd /usr/local # Or wherever you specified as $prefix |
382 | tar xvf perl5-archive.tar |
383 | |
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384 | =head2 Building a shared libperl.so Perl library. |
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385 | |
386 | Currently, for most systems, the main perl executable is built by |
387 | linking the "perl library" libperl.a with perlmain.o, your static |
388 | extensions (usually just DynaLoader.a) and various extra libraries, |
389 | such as -lm. |
390 | |
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391 | On some systems that support dynamic loading, it may be possible to |
392 | replace libperl.a with a shared libperl.so. If you anticipate building |
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393 | several different perl binaries (e.g. by embedding libperl into |
394 | different programs, or by using the optional compiler extension), then |
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395 | you might wish to build a shared libperl.so so that all your binaries |
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396 | can share the same library. |
397 | |
398 | The disadvantages are that there may be a significant performance |
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399 | penalty associated with the shared libperl.so, and that the overall |
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400 | meachanism is still rather fragile with respect to different versions |
401 | and upgrades. |
402 | |
403 | In terms of performance, on my test system (Solaris 2.5_x86) the perl |
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404 | test suite took roughly 15% longer to run with the shared libperl.so. |
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405 | Your system and typical applications may well give quite different |
406 | results. |
407 | |
408 | The default name for the shared library is typically something like |
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409 | libperl.so.3.2 (for perl5.003_02) or libperl.so.302 or simply |
410 | libperl.so. Configure tries to guess a sensible naming convention |
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411 | based on your C library name. Since the library gets installed in a |
412 | version-specific architecture-dependent directory, the exact name |
413 | isn't very important anyway, as long as your linker is happy. |
414 | |
415 | For some systems (mostly SVR4), building a shared libperl is required |
416 | for dynamic loading to work, and hence is already the default. |
417 | |
418 | You can elect to build a shared libperl by |
419 | |
420 | sh Configure -Duseshrplib |
421 | |
422 | To actually build perl, you must add the current working directory to your |
423 | LD_LIBRARY_PATH environtment variable before running make. You can do |
424 | this with |
425 | |
426 | LD_LIBRARY_PATH=`pwd`:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH; export LD_LIBRARY_PATH |
427 | |
428 | for Bourne-style shells, or |
429 | |
430 | setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH `pwd` |
431 | |
432 | for Csh-style shells. You *MUST* do this before running make. |
433 | Folks running NeXT OPENSTEP must substitute DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH for |
434 | LD_LIBRARY_PATH above. |
435 | |
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436 | There is also an potential problem with the shared perl library if you |
437 | want to have more than one "flavor" of the same version of perl (e.g. |
438 | with and without -DDEBUGGING). For example, suppose you build and |
439 | install a standard perl5.004 with a shared library. Then, suppose you |
440 | try to build perl5.004 with -DDEBUGGING enabled, but everything else |
441 | the same, including all the installation directories. How can you |
442 | ensure that your newly built perl will link with your newly built |
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443 | libperl.so.4 rather with the installed libperl.so.4? The answer is |
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444 | that you might not be able to. The installation directory is encoded |
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445 | in the perl binary with the LD_RUN_PATH environment variable (or |
446 | equivalent ld command-line option). On Solaris, you can override that |
447 | with LD_LIBRARY_PATH; on Linux you can't. |
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448 | |
449 | The only reliable answer is that you should specify a different |
450 | directory for the architecture-dependent library for your -DDEBUGGING |
451 | version of perl. You can do this with by changing all the *archlib* |
452 | variables in config.sh, namely archlib, archlib_exp, and |
453 | installarchlib, to point to your new architecture-dependent library. |
454 | |
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455 | =head2 Selecting File IO mechanisms |
456 | |
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457 | Previous versions of perl used the standard IO mechanisms as defined in |
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458 | <stdio.h>. Versions 5.003_02 and later of perl allow alternate IO |
459 | mechanisms via a "PerlIO" abstraction, but the stdio mechanism is still |
460 | the default and is the only supported mechanism. |
461 | |
462 | This PerlIO abstraction can be enabled either on the Configure command |
463 | line with |
464 | |
465 | sh Configure -Duseperlio |
466 | |
467 | or interactively at the appropriate Configure prompt. |
468 | |
469 | If you choose to use the PerlIO abstraction layer, there are two |
470 | (experimental) possibilities for the underlying IO calls. These have been |
471 | tested to some extent on some platforms, but are not guaranteed to work |
472 | everywhere. |
473 | |
474 | =over 4 |
475 | |
476 | =item 1. |
477 | |
478 | AT&T's "sfio". This has superior performance to <stdio.h> in many |
479 | cases, and is extensible by the use of "disipline" modules. Sfio |
480 | currently only builds on a subset of the UNIX platforms perl supports. |
481 | Because the data structures are completely different from stdio, perl |
482 | extension modules or external libraries may not work. This |
483 | configuration exists to allow these issues to be worked on. |
484 | |
485 | This option requires the 'sfio' package to have been built and installed. |
486 | A (fairly old) version of sfio is in CPAN, and work is in progress to make |
487 | it more easily buildable by adding Configure support. |
488 | |
489 | You select this option by |
490 | |
491 | sh Configure -Duseperlio -Dusesfio |
492 | |
493 | If you have already selected -Duseperlio, and if Configure detects |
494 | that you have sfio, then sfio will be the default suggested by |
495 | Configure. |
496 | |
497 | =item 2. |
498 | |
499 | Normal stdio IO, but with all IO going through calls to the PerlIO |
500 | abstraction layer. This configuration can be used to check that perl and |
501 | extension modules have been correctly converted to use the PerlIO |
502 | abstraction. |
503 | |
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504 | This configuration should work on all platforms (but might not). |
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505 | |
506 | You select this option via : |
507 | |
508 | sh Configure -Duseperlio -Uusesfio |
509 | |
510 | If you have already selected -Duseperlio, and if Configure does not |
511 | detect sfio, then this will be the default suggested by Configure. |
512 | |
513 | =back |
514 | |
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515 | =head2 What if it doesn't work? |
516 | |
517 | =over 4 |
518 | |
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519 | =item Running Configure Interactively |
520 | |
521 | If Configure runs into trouble, remember that you can always run |
522 | Configure interactively so that you can check (and correct) its |
523 | guesses. |
524 | |
525 | All the installation questions have been moved to the top, so you don't |
526 | have to wait for them. Once you've handled them (and your C compiler & |
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527 | flags) you can type C<&-d> at the next Configure prompt and Configure |
25f94b33 |
528 | will use the defaults from then on. |
529 | |
530 | If you find yourself trying obscure command line incantations and |
531 | config.over tricks, I recommend you run Configure interactively |
532 | instead. You'll probably save yourself time in the long run. |
533 | |
8e07c86e |
534 | =item Hint files. |
535 | |
536 | The perl distribution includes a number of system-specific hints files |
537 | in the hints/ directory. If one of them matches your system, Configure |
538 | will offer to use that hint file. |
539 | |
540 | Several of the hint files contain additional important information. |
541 | If you have any problems, it is a good idea to read the relevant hint |
542 | file for further information. See F<hints/solaris_2.sh> for an |
543 | extensive example. |
544 | |
edb1cbcb |
545 | =item *** WHOA THERE!!! *** |
546 | |
547 | Occasionally, Configure makes a wrong guess. For example, on SunOS |
548 | 4.1.3, Configure incorrectly concludes that tzname[] is in the |
549 | standard C library. The hint file is set up to correct for this. You |
550 | will see a message: |
551 | |
552 | *** WHOA THERE!!! *** |
553 | The recommended value for $d_tzname on this machine was "undef"! |
554 | Keep the recommended value? [y] |
555 | |
556 | You should always keep the recommended value unless, after reading the |
557 | relevant section of the hint file, you are sure you want to try |
558 | overriding it. |
559 | |
560 | If you are re-using an old config.sh, the word "previous" will be |
561 | used instead of "recommended". Again, you will almost always want |
562 | to keep the previous value, unless you have changed something on your |
563 | system. |
564 | |
565 | For example, suppose you have added libgdbm.a to your system |
566 | and you decide to reconfigure perl to use GDBM_File. When you run |
567 | Configure again, you will need to add -lgdbm to the list of libraries. |
568 | Now, Configure will find your gdbm library and will issue a message: |
569 | |
570 | *** WHOA THERE!!! *** |
571 | The previous value for $i_gdbm on this machine was "undef"! |
572 | Keep the previous value? [y] |
573 | |
574 | In this case, you do I<not> want to keep the previous value, so you |
c3edaffb |
575 | should answer 'n'. (You'll also have to manually add GDBM_File to |
edb1cbcb |
576 | the list of dynamic extensions to build.) |
577 | |
8e07c86e |
578 | =item Changing Compilers |
579 | |
580 | If you change compilers or make other significant changes, you should |
581 | probably I<not> re-use your old config.sh. Simply remove it or |
582 | rename it, e.g. mv config.sh config.sh.old. Then rerun Configure |
583 | with the options you want to use. |
584 | |
585 | This is a common source of problems. If you change from B<cc> to |
586 | B<gcc>, you should almost always remove your old config.sh. |
587 | |
c3edaffb |
588 | =item Propagating your changes to config.sh |
8e07c86e |
589 | |
56c6f531 |
590 | If you make any changes to F<config.sh>, you should propagate |
9d67150a |
591 | them to all the .SH files by running B<sh Configure -S>. You will |
592 | then have to rebuild by running |
593 | |
594 | make depend |
595 | make |
8e07c86e |
596 | |
597 | =item config.over |
598 | |
599 | You can also supply a shell script config.over to over-ride Configure's |
600 | guesses. It will get loaded up at the very end, just before config.sh |
601 | is created. You have to be careful with this, however, as Configure |
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602 | does no checking that your changes make sense. See the section on |
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603 | L<"Changing the installation directory"> for an example. |
8e07c86e |
604 | |
605 | =item config.h |
606 | |
607 | Many of the system dependencies are contained in F<config.h>. |
608 | F<Configure> builds F<config.h> by running the F<config_h.SH> script. |
609 | The values for the variables are taken from F<config.sh>. |
610 | |
611 | If there are any problems, you can edit F<config.h> directly. Beware, |
612 | though, that the next time you run B<Configure>, your changes will be |
613 | lost. |
614 | |
615 | =item cflags |
616 | |
617 | If you have any additional changes to make to the C compiler command |
618 | line, they can be made in F<cflags.SH>. For instance, to turn off the |
619 | optimizer on F<toke.c>, find the line in the switch structure for |
620 | F<toke.c> and put the command C<optimize='-g'> before the C<;;>. You |
621 | can also edit F<cflags> directly, but beware that your changes will be |
622 | lost the next time you run B<Configure>. |
623 | |
624 | To change the C flags for all the files, edit F<config.sh> |
625 | and change either C<$ccflags> or C<$optimize>, |
25f94b33 |
626 | and then re-run B<sh Configure -S ; make depend>. |
8e07c86e |
627 | |
628 | =item No sh. |
629 | |
630 | If you don't have sh, you'll have to copy the sample file config_H to |
631 | config.h and edit the config.h to reflect your system's peculiarities. |
632 | You'll probably also have to extensively modify the extension building |
633 | mechanism. |
634 | |
c3edaffb |
635 | =item Porting information |
636 | |
637 | Specific information for the OS/2, Plan9, and VMS ports are in the |
638 | corresponing subdirectories. Additional information, including |
639 | a glossary of all those config.sh variables, is in the Porting |
640 | subdirectory. |
641 | |
7f678428 |
642 | Ports for other systems may also be available. You should check out |
643 | L<"http:/www.perl.com/CPAN/ports"> for current information on ports to |
644 | various other operating systems. |
645 | |
8e07c86e |
646 | =back |
647 | |
ff68c719 |
648 | =head1 Binary Compatibility With 5.003 |
649 | |
650 | Perl 5.003 turned on the EMBED feature by default, which tries to |
651 | avoid possible symbol name conflict by prefixing all global symbols |
652 | with "Perl_". However, its list of global symbols was incomplete. |
653 | This error has been rectified in Perl 5.004. |
654 | |
655 | However, some sites may need to maintain complete binary compatibility |
308abf66 |
656 | with Perl 5.003. If you are building Perl for such a site, then when |
657 | B<Configure> asks if you want binary compatibility, answer "y". |
ff68c719 |
658 | |
8e07c86e |
659 | =head1 make depend |
660 | |
661 | This will look for all the includes. |
662 | The output is stored in F<makefile>. The only difference between |
663 | F<Makefile> and F<makefile> is the dependencies at the bottom of |
664 | F<makefile>. If you have to make any changes, you should edit |
665 | F<makefile>, not F<Makefile> since the Unix B<make> command reads |
c3edaffb |
666 | F<makefile> first. (On non-Unix systems, the output may be stored in |
667 | a different file. Check the value of $firstmakefile in your config.sh |
668 | if in doubt.) |
8e07c86e |
669 | |
670 | Configure will offer to do this step for you, so it isn't listed |
671 | explicitly above. |
672 | |
673 | =head1 make |
674 | |
675 | This will attempt to make perl in the current directory. |
676 | |
677 | If you can't compile successfully, try some of the following ideas. |
7f678428 |
678 | If none of them help, and careful reading of the error message and |
679 | the relevant manual pages on your system doesn't help, you can |
680 | send a message to either the comp.lang.perl.misc newsgroup or to |
681 | perlbug@perl.com with an accurate description of your problem. |
682 | Please include the I<output> of the B<./myconfig> shell script |
683 | that comes with the distribution. |
684 | |
685 | [The B<perlbug> program that comes with the perl distribution is |
686 | useful for sending in such reports, but you need to have |
687 | perl compiled and installed before you can use it.] |
8e07c86e |
688 | |
689 | =over 4 |
690 | |
691 | =item * |
692 | |
693 | If you used a hint file, try reading the comments in the hint file |
694 | for further tips and information. |
695 | |
696 | =item * |
697 | |
c3edaffb |
698 | If you can successfully build F<miniperl>, but the process crashes |
699 | during the building of extensions, you should run |
700 | |
701 | make minitest |
702 | |
703 | to test your version of miniperl. |
704 | |
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705 | =item locale |
706 | |
707 | If you have any locale-related environment variables set, try |
708 | unsetting them. I have some reports that some versions of IRIX hang |
709 | while running B<./miniperl configpm> with locales other than the C |
710 | locale. See the discussion under L<make test> below about locales. |
711 | |
c3edaffb |
712 | =item * |
713 | |
714 | If you get duplicates upon linking for malloc et al, say -DHIDEMYMALLOC. |
715 | |
7f678428 |
716 | =item varargs |
c3edaffb |
717 | |
718 | If you get varargs problems with gcc, be sure that gcc is installed |
719 | correctly. When using gcc, you should probably have i_stdarg='define' |
720 | and i_varargs='undef' in config.sh. The problem is usually solved by |
721 | running fixincludes correctly. If you do change config.sh, don't |
7f678428 |
722 | forget to propagate your changes (see |
723 | L<"Propagating your changes to config.sh"> below). |
724 | See also the L<"vsprintf"> item below. |
c3edaffb |
725 | |
726 | =item * |
727 | |
728 | If you get error messages such as the following (the exact line |
729 | numbers will vary in different versions of perl): |
730 | |
731 | util.c: In function `Perl_croak': |
732 | util.c:962: number of arguments doesn't match prototype |
733 | proto.h:45: prototype declaration |
734 | |
735 | it might well be a symptom of the gcc "varargs problem". See the |
7f678428 |
736 | previous L<"varargs"> item. |
c3edaffb |
737 | |
9d67150a |
738 | =item Solaris and SunOS dynamic loading |
c3edaffb |
739 | |
740 | If you have problems with dynamic loading using gcc on SunOS or |
741 | Solaris, and you are using GNU as and GNU ld, you may need to add |
742 | B<-B/bin/> (for SunOS) or B<-B/usr/ccs/bin/> (for Solaris) to your |
743 | $ccflags, $ldflags, and $lddlflags so that the system's versions of as |
744 | and ld are used. Alternatively, you can use the GCC_EXEC_PREFIX |
745 | environment variable to ensure that Sun's as and ld are used. Consult |
746 | your gcc documentation for further information on the B<-B> option and |
747 | the GCC_EXEC_PREFIX variable. |
748 | |
9d67150a |
749 | =item ld.so.1: ./perl: fatal: relocation error: |
750 | |
751 | If you get this message on SunOS or Solaris, and you're using gcc, |
7f678428 |
752 | it's probably the GNU as or GNU ld problem in the previous item |
753 | L<"Solaris and SunOS dynamic loading">. |
9d67150a |
754 | |
c3edaffb |
755 | =item * |
756 | |
757 | If you run into dynamic loading problems, check your setting of |
758 | the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable. Perl should build |
759 | fine with LD_LIBRARY_PATH unset, though that may depend on details |
760 | of your local set-up. |
761 | |
762 | =item dlopen: stub interception failed |
763 | |
764 | The primary cause of the 'dlopen: stub interception failed' message is |
765 | that the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable includes a directory |
766 | which is a symlink to /usr/lib (such as /lib). |
767 | |
768 | The reason this causes a problem is quite subtle. The file libdl.so.1.0 |
769 | actually *only* contains functions which generate 'stub interception |
770 | failed' errors! The runtime linker intercepts links to |
771 | "/usr/lib/libdl.so.1.0" and links in internal implementation of those |
772 | functions instead. [Thanks to Tim Bunce for this explanation.] |
773 | |
774 | =item * |
775 | |
776 | If Configure seems to be having trouble finding library functions, |
777 | try not using nm extraction. You can do this from the command line |
778 | with |
779 | |
780 | sh Configure -Uusenm |
781 | |
782 | or by answering the nm extraction question interactively. |
783 | If you have previously run Configure, you should I<not> reuse your old |
784 | config.sh. |
785 | |
7f678428 |
786 | =item vsprintf |
c3edaffb |
787 | |
788 | If you run into problems with vsprintf in compiling util.c, the |
789 | problem is probably that Configure failed to detect your system's |
790 | version of vsprintf(). Check whether your system has vprintf(). |
791 | (Virtually all modern Unix systems do.) Then, check the variable |
792 | d_vprintf in config.sh. If your system has vprintf, it should be: |
793 | |
794 | d_vprintf='define' |
795 | |
796 | If Configure guessed wrong, it is likely that Configure guessed wrong |
797 | on a number of other common functions too. You are probably better off |
798 | re-running Configure without using nm extraction (see previous item). |
799 | |
800 | =item * |
801 | |
9d67150a |
802 | If you can't compile successfully, try turning off your compiler's |
803 | optimizier. Edit config.sh and change the line |
804 | |
805 | optimize='-O' |
806 | |
807 | to something like |
808 | |
809 | optimize=' ' |
810 | |
811 | then propagate your changes with B<sh Configure -S> and rebuild |
812 | with B<make depend; make>. |
813 | |
814 | =item * |
815 | |
56c6f531 |
816 | If you still can't compile successfully, try adding a C<-DCRIPPLED_CC> |
817 | flag. (Just because you get no errors doesn't mean it compiled right!) |
818 | This simplifies some complicated expressions for compilers that get |
819 | indigestion easily. |
9d67150a |
820 | |
821 | =item Missing functions |
822 | |
823 | If you have missing routines, you probably need to add some library or |
824 | other, or you need to undefine some feature that Configure thought was |
825 | there but is defective or incomplete. Look through config.h for |
826 | likely suspects. |
8e07c86e |
827 | |
828 | =item * |
829 | |
830 | Some compilers will not compile or optimize the larger files without |
831 | some extra switches to use larger jump offsets or allocate larger |
832 | internal tables. You can customize the switches for each file in |
833 | F<cflags>. It's okay to insert rules for specific files into |
834 | F<makefile> since a default rule only takes effect in the absence of a |
835 | specific rule. |
836 | |
7f678428 |
837 | =item Missing dbmclose |
8e07c86e |
838 | |
c3edaffb |
839 | SCO prior to 3.2.4 may be missing dbmclose(). An upgrade to 3.2.4 |
840 | that includes libdbm.nfs (which includes dbmclose()) may be available. |
8e07c86e |
841 | |
7f678428 |
842 | =item Warning (will try anyway): No library found for -lposix |
843 | |
844 | If you see such a message during the building of an extension, but |
845 | the extension passes its tests anyway (see L<"make test"> below), |
846 | then don't worry about the warning message. The extension |
847 | Makefile.PL goes looking for various libraries needed on various |
848 | systems; few systems will need all the possible libries listed. |
849 | For example, a system may have -lcposix or -lposix, but it's |
850 | unlikely to have both, so most users will see warnings for the one |
851 | they don't have. The message 'will try anyway' is intended to |
852 | reassure you that the process is continuing. |
853 | |
854 | On the other hand, if you are building GDBM_File and you get the |
855 | message |
856 | |
857 | Warning (will try anyway): No library found for -lgdbm |
858 | |
859 | then it's likely you're going to run into trouble somewhere along |
860 | the line, since it's hard to see how you can use the GDBM_File |
861 | extension without the -lgdbm library. |
862 | |
863 | It is true that, in principle, Configure could have figured all of |
864 | this out, but Configure and the extension building process are not |
865 | quite that tightly coordinated. |
866 | |
8e07c86e |
867 | =item * |
868 | |
869 | Some additional things that have been reported for either perl4 or perl5: |
870 | |
871 | Genix may need to use libc rather than libc_s, or #undef VARARGS. |
872 | |
873 | NCR Tower 32 (OS 2.01.01) may need -W2,-Sl,2000 and #undef MKDIR. |
874 | |
875 | UTS may need one or more of B<-DCRIPPLED_CC>, B<-K> or B<-g>, and undef LSTAT. |
876 | |
877 | If you get syntax errors on '(', try -DCRIPPLED_CC. |
878 | |
879 | Machines with half-implemented dbm routines will need to #undef I_ODBM |
880 | |
5f05dabc |
881 | db-recno failure on tests 51, 53 and 55: Old versions of the DB library |
882 | (including the DB library which comes with FreeBSD 2.1) had broken |
883 | handling of recno databases with modified bval settings. Upgrade your |
884 | DB library or OS. |
885 | |
8e07c86e |
886 | =back |
887 | |
888 | =head1 make test |
889 | |
890 | This will run the regression tests on the perl you just made. If it |
891 | doesn't say "All tests successful" then something went wrong. See the |
892 | file F<t/README> in the F<t> subdirectory. Note that you can't run it |
c3edaffb |
893 | in background if this disables opening of /dev/tty. |
894 | |
895 | If B<make test> bombs out, just B<cd> to the F<t> directory and run |
896 | B<TEST> by hand to see if it makes any difference. If individual tests |
897 | bomb, you can run them by hand, e.g., |
8e07c86e |
898 | |
899 | ./perl op/groups.t |
900 | |
c3edaffb |
901 | You can also read the individual tests to see if there are any helpful |
902 | comments that apply to your system. |
903 | |
edb1cbcb |
904 | B<Note>: one possible reason for errors is that some external programs |
c07a80fd |
905 | may be broken due to the combination of your environment and the way |
c3edaffb |
906 | C<make test> exercises them. For example, this may happen if you have |
907 | one or more of these environment variables set: C<LC_ALL LC_CTYPE |
56c6f531 |
908 | LC_COLLATE LANG>. In some versions of UNIX, the non-English locales |
e57fd563 |
909 | are known to cause programs to exhibit mysterious errors. |
910 | |
911 | If you have any of the above environment variables set, please try |
912 | C<setenv LC_ALL C> (for C shell) or <LC_ALL=C;export LC_ALL> (for |
913 | Bourne or Korn shell) from the command line and then retry C<make |
914 | test>. If the tests then succeed, you may have a broken program that |
915 | is confusing the testing. Please run the troublesome test by hand as |
916 | shown above and see whether you can locate the program. Look for |
917 | things like: C<exec, `backquoted command`, system, open("|...")> or |
918 | C<open("...|")>. All these mean that Perl is trying to run some |
919 | external program. |
eed2e782 |
920 | |
8e07c86e |
921 | =head1 INSTALLING PERL5 |
922 | |
923 | =head1 make install |
924 | |
925 | This will put perl into the public directory you specified to |
926 | B<Configure>; by default this is F</usr/local/bin>. It will also try |
927 | to put the man pages in a reasonable place. It will not nroff the man |
928 | page, however. You may need to be root to run B<make install>. If you |
929 | are not root, you must own the directories in question and you should |
930 | ignore any messages about chown not working. |
931 | |
c3edaffb |
932 | You may see some harmless error messages and warnings from pod2man. |
933 | You may safely ignore them. (Yes, they should be fixed, but they |
934 | didn't seem important enough to warrant holding up the entire release.) |
a5f75d66 |
935 | |
8e07c86e |
936 | If you want to see exactly what will happen without installing |
937 | anything, you can run |
4633a7c4 |
938 | |
8e07c86e |
939 | ./perl installperl -n |
940 | ./perl installman -n |
941 | |
942 | B<make install> will install the following: |
943 | |
944 | perl, |
945 | perl5.nnn where nnn is the current release number. This |
946 | will be a link to perl. |
947 | suidperl, |
948 | sperl5.nnn If you requested setuid emulation. |
949 | a2p awk-to-perl translator |
950 | cppstdin This is used by perl -P, if your cc -E can't |
951 | read from stdin. |
952 | c2ph, pstruct Scripts for handling C structures in header files. |
953 | s2p sed-to-perl translator |
954 | find2perl find-to-perl translator |
955 | h2xs Converts C .h header files to Perl extensions. |
24b3df7f |
956 | perlbug Tool to report bugs in Perl. |
8e07c86e |
957 | perldoc Tool to read perl's pod documentation. |
958 | pod2html, Converters from perl's pod documentation format |
959 | pod2latex, and to other useful formats. |
960 | pod2man |
961 | |
962 | library files in $privlib and $archlib specified to |
963 | Configure, usually under /usr/local/lib/perl5/. |
964 | man pages in the location specified to Configure, usually |
965 | something like /usr/local/man/man1. |
966 | module in the location specified to Configure, usually |
967 | man pages under /usr/local/lib/perl5/man/man3. |
968 | pod/*.pod in $privlib/pod/. |
969 | |
4633a7c4 |
970 | Installperl will also create the library directories $siteperl and |
971 | $sitearch listed in config.sh. Usually, these are something like |
24b3df7f |
972 | /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/ |
973 | /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/$archname |
4633a7c4 |
974 | where $archname is something like sun4-sunos. These directories |
975 | will be used for installing extensions. |
976 | |
56c6f531 |
977 | Perl's *.h header files and the libperl.a library are also installed |
978 | under $archlib so that any user may later build new extensions, run the |
979 | optional Perl compiler, or embed the perl interpreter into another |
980 | program even if the Perl source is no longer available. |
8e07c86e |
981 | |
982 | Most of the documentation in the pod/ directory is also available |
983 | in HTML and LaTeX format. Type |
984 | |
985 | cd pod; make html; cd .. |
986 | |
987 | to generate the html versions, and |
988 | |
989 | cd pod; make tex; cd .. |
990 | |
991 | to generate the LaTeX versions. |
992 | |
eed2e782 |
993 | =head1 cd /usr/include; h2ph *.h sys/*.h |
994 | |
995 | Some of the perl library files need to be able to obtain information from |
996 | the system header files. This command will convert the most commonly used |
997 | header files in F</usr/include> into files that can be easily interpreted |
998 | by perl. These files will be placed in architectural library directory |
999 | you specified to B<Configure>; by default this is |
1000 | F</usr/local/lib/perl5/ARCH/VERSION>, where B<ARCH> is your architecture |
1001 | (such as C<sun4-solaris>) and B<VERSION> is the version of perl you are |
1002 | building (for example, C<5.003>). |
1003 | |
1004 | B<NOTE:> Due to differences in the C and perl languages, the conversion of |
c3edaffb |
1005 | the header files in not perfect. You may have to hand edit some of the |
eed2e782 |
1006 | converted files to get them to parse correctly. For example, it breaks |
1007 | spectacularly on type casting and certain structures. |
c3edaffb |
1008 | |
4633a7c4 |
1009 | =head1 Coexistence with earlier versions of perl5. |
1010 | |
eed2e782 |
1011 | You can safely install the current version of perl5 and still run scripts |
56c6f531 |
1012 | under the old binaries for versions 5.003 and later ONLY. Instead of |
eed2e782 |
1013 | starting your script with #!/usr/local/bin/perl, just start it with |
56c6f531 |
1014 | #!/usr/local/bin/perl5.003 (or whatever version you want to run.) |
1015 | If you want to retain a version of perl5 prior to perl5.003, you'll |
eed2e782 |
1016 | need to install the current version in a separate directory tree, |
1017 | since some of the architecture-independent library files have changed |
1018 | in incompatible ways. |
4633a7c4 |
1019 | |
1020 | The architecture-dependent files are stored in a version-specific |
1021 | directory (such as F</usr/local/lib/perl5/sun4-sunos/5.002>) so that |
1022 | they are still accessible. I<Note:> perl5.000 and perl5.001 did not |
1023 | put their architecture-dependent libraries in a version-specific |
1024 | directory. They are simply in F</usr/local/lib/perl5/$archname>. If |
1025 | you will not be using 5.000 or 5.001, you may safely remove those |
1026 | files. |
1027 | |
1028 | The standard library files in F</usr/local/lib/perl5> |
c3edaffb |
1029 | should be usable by all versions of perl5. |
4633a7c4 |
1030 | |
d52d4e46 |
1031 | Most extensions will probably not need to be recompiled to use with a newer |
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1032 | version of perl. If you do run into problems, and you want to continue |
1033 | to use the old version of perl along with your extension, simply move |
1034 | those extension files to the appropriate version directory, such as |
1035 | F</usr/local/lib/perl/archname/5.002>. Then perl5.002 will find your |
1036 | files in the 5.002 directory, and newer versions of perl will find your |
1037 | newer extension in the site_perl directory. |
1038 | |
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1039 | Some users may prefer to keep all versions of perl in completely |
1040 | separate directories. One convenient way to do this is by |
1041 | using a separate prefix for each version, such as |
1042 | |
1043 | sh Configure -Dprefix=/opt/perl5.002 |
1044 | |
1045 | and adding /opt/perl5.002/bin to the shell PATH variable. Such users |
1046 | may also wish to add a symbolic link /usr/local/bin/perl so that |
1047 | scripts can still start with #!/usr/local/bin/perl. |
1048 | |
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1049 | B<NOTE>: Starting with 5.002_01, all functions in the perl C source |
1050 | code are protected by default by the prefix Perl_ (or perl_) so that |
1051 | you may link with third-party libraries without fear of namespace |
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1052 | collisons. This breaks compatability with |
1053 | version 5.002, so once you install 5.002_01 (or higher) you will |
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1054 | need to re-build and install all of your dynamically loadable |
1055 | extensions. (The standard extensions supplied with Perl are handled |
1056 | automatically). You can turn off this namespace protection by adding |
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1057 | -DNO_EMBED to your ccflags variable in config.sh. |
1058 | |
1059 | In the future, we certainly hope that most extensions won't need to be |
1060 | recompiled for use with a newer version of perl. |
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1061 | |
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1062 | =head1 Coexistence with perl4 |
1063 | |
1064 | You can safely install perl5 even if you want to keep perl4 around. |
1065 | |
1066 | By default, the perl5 libraries go into F</usr/local/lib/perl5/>, so |
1067 | they don't override the perl4 libraries in F</usr/local/lib/perl/>. |
1068 | |
1069 | In your /usr/local/bin directory, you should have a binary named |
1070 | F<perl4.036>. That will not be touched by the perl5 installation |
1071 | process. Most perl4 scripts should run just fine under perl5. |
1072 | However, if you have any scripts that require perl4, you can replace |
1073 | the C<#!> line at the top of them by C<#!/usr/local/bin/perl4.036> |
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1074 | (or whatever the appropriate pathname is). See pod/perltrap.pod |
1075 | for possible problems running perl4 scripts under perl5. |
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1076 | |
1077 | =head1 DOCUMENTATION |
1078 | |
1079 | Read the manual entries before running perl. The main documentation is |
1080 | in the pod/ subdirectory and should have been installed during the |
1081 | build process. Type B<man perl> to get started. Alternatively, you |
1082 | can type B<perldoc perl> to use the supplied B<perldoc> script. This |
1083 | is sometimes useful for finding things in the library modules. |
1084 | |
1085 | =head1 AUTHOR |
1086 | |
1087 | Andy Dougherty <doughera@lafcol.lafayette.edu>, borrowing I<very> heavily |
1088 | from the original README by Larry Wall. |
1089 | |
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1090 | =head1 LAST MODIFIED |
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1091 | |
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1092 | 24 December 1996 |