=head1 Space Requirements
-The complete perl5 source tree takes up about 40 MB of disk space.
-After completing make, it takes up roughly 60 MB, though the actual
+The complete perl5 source tree takes up about 50 MB of disk space.
+After completing make, it takes up roughly 100 MB, though the actual
total is likely to be quite system-dependent. The installation
-directories need something on the order of 35 MB, though again that
+directories need something on the order of 45 MB, though again that
value is system-dependent.
=head1 Start with a Fresh Distribution
directory structure is simplified. For example, if you use
prefix=/opt/perl, then Configure will suggest /opt/perl/lib instead of
/opt/perl/lib/perl5/. Again, see L<"Installation Directories"> below
-for more details.
+for more details. Do not include a trailing slash, (i.e. /opt/perl/)
+or you may experience odd test failures.
NOTE: You must not specify an installation directory that is the same
as or below your perl source directory. If you do, installperl will
installation questions are near the beginning of Configure.
Further, there are a number of additions to the installation
directories since 5.005, so reusing your old config.sh may not
-be sufficient to put everything where you want it.
+be sufficient to put everything where you want it. Do not include
+trailing slashes on directory names.
I highly recommend running Configure interactively to be sure it puts
everything where you want it. At any point during the Configure
then propagate your changes with B<sh Configure -S> and rebuild
with B<make depend; make>.
-=item CRIPPLED_CC
-
-If you still can't compile successfully, try:
-
- sh Configure -Accflags=-DCRIPPLED_CC
-
-This flag simplifies some complicated expressions for compilers that get
-indigestion easily. (Just because you get no errors doesn't mean it
-compiled right!)
-
=item Missing functions
If you have missing routines, you probably need to add some library or
NCR Tower 32 (OS 2.01.01) may need -W2,-Sl,2000 and #undef MKDIR.
-UTS may need one or more of -DCRIPPLED_CC, -K or -g, and undef LSTAT.
+UTS may need one or more of -K or -g, and undef LSTAT.
FreeBSD can fail the lib/ipc_sysv.t test if SysV IPC has not been
configured to the kernel. Perl tries to detect this, though, and
you will get a message telling what to do.
-If you get syntax errors on '(', try -DCRIPPLED_CC.
-
Machines with half-implemented dbm routines will need to #undef I_ODBM
HP-UX 11 Y2K patch "Y2K-1100 B.11.00.B0125 HP-UX Core OS Year 2000
Several tests in the test suite check timing functions, such as
sleep(), and see if they return in a reasonable amount of time.
-If your system is quite busy and doesn't return quickly enough,
-these tests might fail. If possible, try running the tests again with
-the system under a lighter load. These tests include F<t/op/alarm.t>,
-F<ext/Time/HiRes/HiRes.t>, and F<lib/Benchmark.t>.
+If your system is quite busy and doesn't respond quickly enough,
+these tests might fail. If possible, try running the tests again
+with the system under a lighter load. These timing-sensitive
+and load-sensitive tests include F<t/op/alarm.t>,
+F<ext/Time/HiRes/HiRes.t>, F<lib/Benchmark.t>,
+F<lib/Memoize/t/expmod_t.t>, and F<lib/Memoize/t/speed.t>.
=item Out of memory
Perl installation into minimal systems (for example when installing
operating systems, or in really small filesystems).
+Leaving out as many extensions as possible is an obvious way:
+especially the Encode with its big conversion tables consumes a lot of
+space. On the other hand, you cannot throw away everything, especially
+the Fcntl module is pretty essential. If you need to do network
+programming, you'll appreciate the Socket module, and so forth: it all
+depends on what do you need to do.
+
In the following we offer two different slimmed down installation
recipes. They are informative, not normative: the choice of files
depends on what you need.
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