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1 | If you read this file _as_is_, just ignore the funny characters you |
| 2 | see. It is written in the POD format (see pod/perlpod.pod) which is |
| 3 | specifically designed to be readable as is. |
| 4 | |
| 5 | =head1 NAME |
| 6 | |
| 7 | README.linux - Perl version 5 on Linux systems |
| 8 | |
| 9 | =head1 DESCRIPTION |
| 10 | |
| 11 | This document describes various features of Linux that will affect how Perl |
| 12 | version 5 (hereafter just Perl) is compiled and/or runs. |
| 13 | |
| 14 | =head2 Experimental Support for Sun Studio Compilers for Linux OS |
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| 16 | Sun Microsystems has released a port of their Sun Studio compiliers for |
| 17 | Linux. As of November 2005, only an alpha version has been released. |
| 18 | Until a release of these compilers is made, support for compiling Perl with |
| 19 | these compiler experimental. |
| 20 | |
| 21 | Also, some special instructions for building Perl with Sun Studio on Linux. |
| 22 | Following the normal C<Configure>, you have to run make as follows: |
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| 24 | LDLOADLIBS=-lc make |
| 25 | |
| 26 | C<LDLOADLIBS> is an environment variable used by the linker to link modules |
| 27 | C</ext> modules to glibc. Currently, that environment variable is not getting |
| 28 | populated by a combination of C<Config> entries and C<ExtUtil::MakeMaker>. |
| 29 | While there may be a bug somewhere in Perl's configuration or |
| 30 | C<ExtUtil::MakeMaker> causing the problem, the most likely cause is an |
| 31 | incomplete understanding of Sun Studio by this author. Further investigation |
| 32 | is needed to get this working better. |
| 33 | |
| 34 | =head1 AUTHOR |
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| 36 | Steve Peters <steve@fisharerojo.org> |
| 37 | |
| 38 | Please report any errors, updates, or suggestions to F<perlbug@perl.org>. |
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