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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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