Installing Perl-5.6.1

Estimated build time:           6 minutes
Estimated required disk space:  35 MB

Installation of Perl

Install Perl by running the following commands:

./configure.gnu --prefix=/usr &&
make &&
make install

If you want more control over the way perl sets itself up to be build, you can run the interactive Configure script and modify the way perl is built. If you think you can live with the (sensible) defaults perl auto-detects, then just use the commands listed above.

Contents of perl-5.6.1

Program Files

a2p, c2ph, dprofpp, find2perl, h2ph, h2xs, perl, perl5.6.1, perlbug, perlcc, perldoc, pl2pm, pod2html, pod2latex, pod2man, pod2text, pod2usage, podchecker, podselect, pstruct, s2p and splain

Descriptions

a2p

a2p is an awk to perl translator.

c2ph

c2ph dumps C structures as generated from "cc -g -S" stabs.

dprofpp

dprofpp displays perl profile data.

find2perl

find2perl translates find command lines to Perl code.

h2ph

h2ph converts .h C header files to .ph Perl header files.

h2xs

h2xs converts .h C header files to Perl extensions.

perl, perl5.6.1

perl is the Practical Extraction and Report Language. It combines some of the best features of C, sed, awk, and sh into one powerful language.

perlbug

perlbug helps to generate bug reports about perl or the modules that come with it, and mail them.

perlcc

perlcc generates executables from Perl programs.

perldoc

perldoc looks up a piece of documentation in .pod format that is embedded in the perl installation tree or in a perl script, and displays it via "pod2man | nroff -man | $PAGER".

pl2pm

pl2pm is a tool to aid in the conversion of Perl4-style .pl library files to Perl5-style library modules.

pod2html

pod2html converts files from pod format to HTML format.

pod2latex

pod2latex converts files from pod format to LaTeX format.

pod2man

pod2man converts pod data to formatted *roff input.

pod2text

pod2text converts pod data to formatted ASCII text.

pod2usage

pod2usage prints usage messages from embedded pod docs in files.

podchecker

podchecker checks the syntax of pod format documentation files.

podselect

podselect prints selected sections of pod documentation on standard output.

pstruct

pstruct dumps C structures as generated from "cc -g -S" stabs.

s2p

s2p is a sed to perl translator.

splain

splain is a program to force verbose warning diagnostics in perl.

Dependencies

Perl-5.6.1 needs the following to be installed:


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