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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. | |
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| 5 | =head1 NAME | |
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| de2902a6 | 7 | perllinux - Perl version 5 on Linux systems |
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| 9 | =head1 DESCRIPTION | |
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| 11 | This document describes various features of Linux that will affect how Perl | |
| 12 | version 5 (hereafter just Perl) is compiled and/or runs. | |
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| 14 | =head2 Experimental Support for Sun Studio Compilers for Linux OS | |
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| f858446f | 16 | Sun Microsystems has released a port of their Sun Studio compilers for |
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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. | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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. | |
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| 34 | =head1 AUTHOR | |
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| 36 | Steve Peters <steve@fisharerojo.org> | |
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| 38 | Please report any errors, updates, or suggestions to F<perlbug@perl.org>. | |
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