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3 | If you read this file _as_is_, just ignore the funny characters you |
| 4 | see. It is written in the POD format (see pod/perlpod.pod) which is | |
| 5 | specifically designed to be readable as is. | |
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| 7 | =head1 NAME | |
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| de2902a6 | 9 | perllinux - Perl version 5 on Linux systems |
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10 | |
| 11 | =head1 DESCRIPTION | |
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| 13 | This document describes various features of Linux that will affect how Perl | |
| 14 | version 5 (hereafter just Perl) is compiled and/or runs. | |
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16 | =head2 Deploying Perl on Linux |
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| 18 | Normally one can install F</usr/bin/perl> on Linux using your distribution's | |
| 19 | package manager (e.g: C<sudo apt-get install perl>, or | |
| 20 | C<sudo dnf install perl>). Note that sometimes one needs to install some | |
| 21 | extra system packages in order to be able to use CPAN frontends, and that | |
| 22 | messing with the system's perl is not always recommended. One can use | |
| 23 | L<perlbrew|https://perlbrew.pl/> to avoid such issues. | |
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| 25 | Otherwise, perl should build fine on Linux using the mainstream compilers | |
| 26 | GCC and clang, while following the usual instructions. | |
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28 | =head2 Experimental Support for Sun Studio Compilers for Linux OS |
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| f858446f | 30 | Sun Microsystems has released a port of their Sun Studio compilers for |
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31 | Linux. As of May 2019, the last stable release took place on 2017, and one can |
| 32 | buy support contracts for them. | |
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34 | There are some special instructions for building Perl with Sun Studio on |
| 35 | Linux. Following the normal C<Configure>, you have to run make as follows: | |
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36 | |
| 37 | LDLOADLIBS=-lc make | |
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| 9ffb8441 | 39 | C<LDLOADLIBS> is an environment variable used by the linker to link |
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40 | C</ext> modules to glibc. Currently, that environment variable is not getting |
| 41 | populated by a combination of C<Config> entries and C<ExtUtil::MakeMaker>. | |
| 42 | While there may be a bug somewhere in Perl's configuration or | |
| 43 | C<ExtUtil::MakeMaker> causing the problem, the most likely cause is an | |
| 44 | incomplete understanding of Sun Studio by this author. Further investigation | |
| 45 | is needed to get this working better. | |
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| 47 | =head1 AUTHOR | |
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| 49 | Steve Peters <steve@fisharerojo.org> | |
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51 | Please report any errors, updates, or suggestions to |
| 52 | L<https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues>. | |
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