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1 | =head1 NAME |
2 | ||
3 | Install - Build and Installation guide for perl5. | |
4 | ||
5 | =head1 SYNOPSIS | |
6 | ||
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7 | First, make sure you are installing an up-to-date version of Perl. If |
8 | you didn't get your Perl source from CPAN, check the latest version at | |
9 | <URL:http://www.perl.com/CPAN/src/>. | |
10 | ||
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11 | The basic steps to build and install perl5 on a Unix system |
12 | with all the defaults are: | |
8e07c86e | 13 | |
dc45a647 | 14 | rm -f config.sh Policy.sh |
491517e0 | 15 | sh Configure -de |
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16 | make |
17 | make test | |
18 | make install | |
36477c24 | 19 | |
aa689395 | 20 | # You may also wish to add these: |
21 | (cd /usr/include && h2ph *.h sys/*.h) | |
3e3baf6d | 22 | (installhtml --help) |
aa689395 | 23 | (cd pod && make tex && <process the latex files>) |
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24 | |
25 | Each of these is explained in further detail below. | |
26 | ||
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27 | The above commands will install Perl to /usr/local or /opt, depending |
28 | on the platform. If that's not okay with you, use | |
29 | ||
30 | rm -f config.sh Policy.sh | |
31 | sh Configure | |
32 | make | |
33 | make test | |
34 | make install | |
35 | ||
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36 | For information on non-Unix systems, see the section on |
37 | L<"Porting information"> below. | |
7f678428 | 38 | |
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39 | If you have problems, corrections, or questions, please see |
40 | L<"Reporting Problems"> below. | |
41 | ||
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42 | For information on what's new in this release, see the |
43 | pod/perldelta.pod file. For more detailed information about specific | |
44 | changes, see the Changes file. | |
c3edaffb | 45 | |
1ec51d55 | 46 | =head1 DESCRIPTION |
edb1cbcb | 47 | |
c3edaffb | 48 | This document is written in pod format as an easy way to indicate its |
49 | structure. The pod format is described in pod/perlpod.pod, but you can | |
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50 | read it as is with any pager or editor. Headings and items are marked |
51 | by lines beginning with '='. The other mark-up used is | |
52 | ||
53 | B<text> embolden text, used for switches, programs or commands | |
54 | C<code> literal code | |
55 | L<name> A link (cross reference) to name | |
56 | ||
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57 | Although most of the defaults are probably fine for most users, |
58 | you should probably at least skim through this entire document before | |
1ec51d55 | 59 | proceeding. |
c3edaffb | 60 | |
eed2e782 | 61 | If you're building Perl on a non-Unix system, you should also read |
62 | the README file specific to your operating system, since this may | |
63 | provide additional or different instructions for building Perl. | |
64 | ||
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65 | If there is a hint file for your system (in the hints/ directory) you |
66 | should also read that hint file for specific information for your | |
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67 | system. (Unixware users should use the svr4.sh hint file.) If |
68 | there is a README file for your platform, then you should read | |
69 | that too. Additional information is in the Porting/ directory. | |
203c3eec | 70 | |
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71 | =head1 WARNING: This version requires an extra step to build old extensions. |
72 | ||
73 | 5.005_53 and later releases do not export unadorned | |
74 | global symbols anymore. This means you may need to build older | |
75 | extensions that have not been updated for the new naming convention | |
76 | with: | |
77 | ||
78 | perl Makefile.PL POLLUTE=1 | |
79 | ||
80 | Alternatively, you can enable CPP symbol pollution wholesale by | |
81 | building perl itself with: | |
82 | ||
83 | sh Configure -Accflags=-DPERL_POLLUTE | |
84 | ||
85 | pod/perldelta.pod contains more details about this. | |
86 | ||
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87 | =head1 WARNING: This version may not be binary compatible with Perl 5.005. |
88 | ||
89 | Using the default Configure options for building perl should get you | |
90 | a perl that will be binary compatible with the 5.005 release. | |
693762b4 | 91 | |
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92 | However, if you run Configure with any custom options, such as |
93 | -Dusethreads, -Dusemultiplicity, -Dusemymalloc, -Ubincompat5005 etc., | |
94 | the resulting perl will not be binary compatible. Under these | |
95 | circumstances, if you have dynamically loaded extensions that were | |
96 | built under perl 5.005, you will need to rebuild and reinstall all | |
97 | those extensions to use them with 5.6. | |
98 | ||
99 | Pure perl modules without XS or C code should continue to work fine | |
100 | without reinstallation. See the discussions below on | |
101 | L<"Coexistence with earlier versions of perl5"> and | |
102 | L<"Upgrading from 5.005 to 5.6"> for more details. | |
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103 | |
104 | The standard extensions supplied with Perl will be handled automatically. | |
105 | ||
1b1c1ae2 | 106 | On a related issue, old modules may possibly be affected by the |
693762b4 | 107 | changes in the Perl language in the current release. Please see |
e02fdbd2 | 108 | pod/perldelta.pod (and pod/perl500Xdelta.pod) for a description of |
c42e3e15 | 109 | what's changed. See your installed copy of the perllocal.pod |
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110 | file for a (possibly incomplete) list of locally installed modules. |
111 | Also see CPAN::autobundle for one way to make a "bundle" of your | |
112 | currently installed modules. | |
693762b4 | 113 | |
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114 | =head1 WARNING: This version requires a compiler that supports ANSI C. |
115 | ||
116 | If you find that your C compiler is not ANSI-capable, try obtaining | |
117 | GCC, available from GNU mirrors worldwide (e.g. ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu). | |
d6baa268 | 118 | Another alternative may be to use a tool like ansi2knr to convert the |
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119 | sources back to K&R style, but there is no guarantee this route will get |
120 | you anywhere, since the prototypes are not the only ANSI features used | |
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121 | in the Perl sources. ansi2knr is usually found as part of the freely |
122 | available Ghostscript distribution. Another similar tool is | |
123 | unprotoize, distributed with GCC. Since unprotoize requires GCC to | |
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124 | run, you may have to run it on a platform where GCC is available, and move |
125 | the sources back to the platform without GCC. | |
126 | ||
127 | If you succeed in automatically converting the sources to a K&R compatible | |
128 | form, be sure to email perlbug@perl.com to let us know the steps you | |
129 | followed. This will enable us to officially support this option. | |
130 | ||
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131 | Although Perl can be compiled using a C++ compiler, the Configure script |
132 | does not work with some C++ compilers. | |
133 | ||
aa689395 | 134 | =head1 Space Requirements |
eed2e782 | 135 | |
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136 | The complete perl5 source tree takes up about 20 MB of disk space. |
137 | After completing make, it takes up roughly 30 MB, though the actual | |
d6baa268 | 138 | total is likely to be quite system-dependent. The installation |
c42e3e15 | 139 | directories need something on the order of 20 MB, though again that |
1ec51d55 | 140 | value is system-dependent. |
8e07c86e | 141 | |
aa689395 | 142 | =head1 Start with a Fresh Distribution |
8e07c86e | 143 | |
edb1cbcb | 144 | If you have built perl before, you should clean out the build directory |
145 | with the command | |
146 | ||
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147 | make distclean |
148 | ||
149 | or | |
150 | ||
edb1cbcb | 151 | make realclean |
c3edaffb | 152 | |
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153 | The only difference between the two is that make distclean also removes |
154 | your old config.sh and Policy.sh files. | |
155 | ||
156 | The results of a Configure run are stored in the config.sh and Policy.sh | |
157 | files. If you are upgrading from a previous version of perl, or if you | |
158 | change systems or compilers or make other significant changes, or if | |
159 | you are experiencing difficulties building perl, you should probably | |
d6baa268 | 160 | not re-use your old config.sh. Simply remove it |
8e07c86e | 161 | |
d6baa268 | 162 | rm -f config.sh |
4633a7c4 | 163 | |
e57fd563 | 164 | If you wish to use your old config.sh, be especially attentive to the |
165 | version and architecture-specific questions and answers. For example, | |
166 | the default directory for architecture-dependent library modules | |
167 | includes the version name. By default, Configure will reuse your old | |
168 | name (e.g. /opt/perl/lib/i86pc-solaris/5.003) even if you're running | |
169 | Configure for a different version, e.g. 5.004. Yes, Configure should | |
170 | probably check and correct for this, but it doesn't, presently. | |
171 | Similarly, if you used a shared libperl.so (see below) with version | |
172 | numbers, you will probably want to adjust them as well. | |
173 | ||
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174 | Also, be careful to check your architecture name. For example, some |
175 | Linux distributions use i386, while others may use i486. If you build | |
176 | it yourself, Configure uses the output of the arch command, which | |
177 | might be i586 or i686 instead. If you pick up a precompiled binary, or | |
178 | compile extensions on different systems, they might not all agree on | |
179 | the architecture name. | |
e57fd563 | 180 | |
181 | In short, if you wish to use your old config.sh, I recommend running | |
182 | Configure interactively rather than blindly accepting the defaults. | |
8e07c86e | 183 | |
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184 | If your reason to reuse your old config.sh is to save your particular |
185 | installation choices, then you can probably achieve the same effect by | |
186 | using the Policy.sh file. See the section on L<"Site-wide Policy | |
187 | settings"> below. If you wish to start with a fresh distribution, you | |
188 | also need to remove any old Policy.sh files you may have with | |
189 | ||
190 | rm -f Policy.sh | |
dc45a647 | 191 | |
aa689395 | 192 | =head1 Run Configure |
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193 | |
194 | Configure will figure out various things about your system. Some | |
195 | things Configure will figure out for itself, other things it will ask | |
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196 | you about. To accept the default, just press RETURN. The default is |
197 | almost always okay. It is normal for some things to be "NOT found", | |
198 | since Configure often searches for many different ways of performing | |
199 | the same function. | |
200 | ||
201 | At any Configure prompt, you can type &-d and Configure will use the | |
202 | defaults from then on. | |
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203 | |
204 | After it runs, Configure will perform variable substitution on all the | |
1ec51d55 | 205 | *.SH files and offer to run make depend. |
8e07c86e | 206 | |
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207 | =head2 Altering config.sh variables for C compiler switches etc. |
208 | ||
209 | For most users, all of the Configure defaults are fine. Configure | |
210 | also has several convenient options which are all described below. | |
211 | However, if Configure doesn't have an option to do what you want, | |
212 | you can change Configure variables after the platform hints have been | |
213 | run, by using Configure's -A switch. For example, here's how to add | |
214 | a couple of extra flags to C compiler invocations: | |
215 | ||
216 | sh Configure -Accflags="-DPERL_Y2KWARN -DPERL_POLLUTE_MALLOC" | |
217 | ||
218 | For more help on Configure switches, run: | |
219 | ||
220 | sh Configure -h | |
221 | ||
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222 | =head2 Common Configure options |
223 | ||
fb73857a | 224 | Configure supports a number of useful options. Run B<Configure -h> to |
225 | get a listing. See the Porting/Glossary file for a complete list of | |
226 | Configure variables you can set and their definitions. | |
227 | ||
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228 | =over 4 |
229 | ||
230 | =item gcc | |
231 | ||
232 | To compile with gcc you should run | |
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233 | |
234 | sh Configure -Dcc=gcc | |
235 | ||
236 | This is the preferred way to specify gcc (or another alternative | |
237 | compiler) so that the hints files can set appropriate defaults. | |
238 | ||
d6baa268 | 239 | =item Installation prefix |
4633a7c4 | 240 | |
8e07c86e | 241 | By default, for most systems, perl will be installed in |
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242 | /usr/local/{bin, lib, man}. (See L<"Installation Directories"> |
243 | and L<"Coexistence with earlier versions of perl5"> below for | |
244 | further details.) | |
245 | ||
246 | You can specify a different 'prefix' for the default installation | |
247 | directory, when Configure prompts you or by using the Configure command | |
248 | line option -Dprefix='/some/directory', e.g. | |
8e07c86e | 249 | |
25f94b33 | 250 | sh Configure -Dprefix=/opt/perl |
4633a7c4 | 251 | |
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252 | If your prefix contains the string "perl", then the suggested |
253 | directory structure is simplified. For example, if you use | |
254 | prefix=/opt/perl, then Configure will suggest /opt/perl/lib instead of | |
255 | /opt/perl/lib/perl5/. Again, see L<"Installation Directories"> below | |
256 | for more details. | |
8e07c86e | 257 | |
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258 | NOTE: You must not specify an installation directory that is the same |
259 | as or below your perl source directory. If you do, installperl will | |
260 | attempt infinite recursion. | |
84902520 | 261 | |
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262 | =item /usr/bin/perl |
263 | ||
264 | It may seem obvious, but Perl is useful only when users can easily | |
265 | find it. It's often a good idea to have both /usr/bin/perl and | |
dd64f1c3 | 266 | /usr/local/bin/perl be symlinks to the actual binary. Be especially |
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267 | careful, however, not to overwrite a version of perl supplied by your |
268 | vendor unless you are sure you know what you are doing. | |
269 | ||
270 | By default, Configure will arrange for /usr/bin/perl to be linked to | |
271 | the current version of perl. You can turn off that behavior by running | |
272 | ||
273 | Configure -Uinstallusrbinperl | |
274 | ||
275 | or by answering 'no' to the appropriate Configure prompt. | |
276 | ||
277 | In any case, system administrators are strongly encouraged to | |
dd64f1c3 | 278 | put (symlinks to) perl and its accompanying utilities, such as perldoc, |
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279 | into a directory typically found along a user's PATH, or in another |
280 | obvious and convenient place. | |
281 | ||
d6baa268 | 282 | =item Overriding an old config.sh |
04d420f9 | 283 | |
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284 | If you want to use your old config.sh but override some of the items |
285 | with command line options, you need to use B<Configure -O>. | |
286 | ||
287 | =back | |
8e07c86e | 288 | |
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289 | If you are willing to accept all the defaults, and you want terse |
290 | output, you can run | |
291 | ||
292 | sh Configure -des | |
293 | ||
294 | For my Solaris system, I usually use | |
295 | ||
296 | sh Configure -Dprefix=/opt/perl -Doptimize='-xpentium -xO4' -des | |
297 | ||
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298 | =head2 GNU-style configure |
299 | ||
1ec51d55 | 300 | If you prefer the GNU-style configure command line interface, you can |
dc45a647 | 301 | use the supplied configure.gnu command, e.g. |
46bb10fb | 302 | |
693762b4 | 303 | CC=gcc ./configure.gnu |
46bb10fb | 304 | |
dc45a647 | 305 | The configure.gnu script emulates a few of the more common configure |
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306 | options. Try |
307 | ||
693762b4 | 308 | ./configure.gnu --help |
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309 | |
310 | for a listing. | |
311 | ||
d6baa268 | 312 | Cross compiling and compiling in a different directory are not supported. |
46bb10fb | 313 | |
dc45a647 | 314 | (The file is called configure.gnu to avoid problems on systems |
693762b4 | 315 | that would not distinguish the files "Configure" and "configure".) |
46bb10fb | 316 | |
aa689395 | 317 | =head2 Installation Directories |
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318 | |
319 | The installation directories can all be changed by answering the | |
320 | appropriate questions in Configure. For convenience, all the | |
321 | installation questions are near the beginning of Configure. | |
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322 | Further, there are a number of additions to the installation |
323 | directories since 5.005, so reusing your old config.sh may not | |
324 | be sufficient to put everything where you want it. | |
4633a7c4 | 325 | |
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326 | I highly recommend running Configure interactively to be sure it puts |
327 | everything where you want it. At any point during the Configure | |
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328 | process, you can answer a question with &-d and Configure will use |
329 | the defaults from then on. | |
330 | ||
331 | The defaults are intended to be reasonable and sensible for most | |
332 | people building from sources. Those who build and distribute binary | |
333 | distributions or who export perl to a range of systems will probably | |
334 | need to alter them. If you are content to just accept the defaults, | |
335 | you can safely skip the next section. | |
336 | ||
337 | The directories set up by Configure fall into three broad categories. | |
338 | ||
339 | =over 4 | |
340 | ||
341 | =item Directories for the perl distribution | |
342 | ||
c42e3e15 | 343 | By default, Configure will use the following directories for 5.6.0. |
d6baa268 | 344 | $version is the full perl version number, including subversion, e.g. |
0a08c020 | 345 | 5.6.0 or 5.6.1, and $archname is a string like sun4-sunos, |
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346 | determined by Configure. The full definitions of all Configure |
347 | variables are in the file Porting/Glossary. | |
348 | ||
349 | Configure variable Default value | |
350 | $prefix /usr/local | |
351 | $bin $prefix/bin | |
352 | $scriptdir $prefix/bin | |
353 | $privlib $prefix/lib/perl5/$version | |
354 | $archlib $prefix/lib/perl5/$version/$archname | |
355 | $man1dir $prefix/man/man1 | |
356 | $man3dir $prefix/man/man3 | |
357 | $html1dir (none) | |
358 | $html3dir (none) | |
359 | ||
360 | Actually, Configure recognizes the SVR3-style | |
361 | /usr/local/man/l_man/man1 directories, if present, and uses those | |
362 | instead. Also, if $prefix contains the string "perl", the library | |
363 | directories are simplified as described below. For simplicity, only | |
364 | the common style is shown here. | |
365 | ||
366 | =item Directories for site-specific add-on files | |
367 | ||
368 | After perl is installed, you may later wish to add modules (e.g. from | |
369 | CPAN) or scripts. Configure will set up the following directories to | |
c42e3e15 | 370 | be used for installing those add-on modules and scripts. |
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371 | |
372 | Configure variable Default value | |
373 | $siteprefix $prefix | |
374 | $sitebin $siteprefix/bin | |
49c10eea | 375 | $sitescript $siteprefix/bin |
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376 | $sitelib $siteprefix/lib/perl5/site_perl/$version |
377 | $sitearch $siteprefix/lib/perl5/site_perl/$version/$archname | |
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378 | $siteman1 $siteprefix/man/man1 |
379 | $siteman3 $siteprefix/man/man3 | |
380 | $sitehtml1 (none) | |
381 | $sitehtml3 (none) | |
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382 | |
383 | By default, ExtUtils::MakeMaker will install architecture-independent | |
273cf8d1 | 384 | modules into $sitelib and architecture-dependent modules into $sitearch. |
d6baa268 | 385 | |
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386 | NOTE: As of 5.6.0, ExtUtils::MakeMaker will use $sitelib and $sitearch, |
387 | but will not use the other site-specific directories. Volunteers to | |
388 | fix this are needed. | |
389 | ||
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390 | =item Directories for vendor-supplied add-on files |
391 | ||
392 | Lastly, if you are building a binary distribution of perl for | |
393 | distribution, Configure can optionally set up the following directories | |
394 | for you to use to distribute add-on modules. | |
395 | ||
396 | Configure variable Default value | |
397 | $vendorprefix (none) | |
398 | (The next ones are set only if vendorprefix is set.) | |
399 | $vendorbin $vendorprefix/bin | |
49c10eea | 400 | $vendorscript $vendorprefix/bin |
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401 | $vendorlib $vendorprefix/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/$version |
402 | $vendorarch $vendorprefix/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/$version/$archname | |
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403 | $vendorman1 $vendorprefix/man/man1 |
404 | $vendorman3 $vendorprefix/man/man3 | |
405 | $vendorhtml1 (none) | |
406 | $vendorhtml3 (none) | |
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407 | |
408 | These are normally empty, but may be set as needed. For example, | |
409 | a vendor might choose the following settings: | |
410 | ||
411 | $prefix /usr/bin | |
412 | $siteprefix /usr/local/bin | |
413 | $vendorprefix /usr/bin | |
414 | ||
415 | This would have the effect of setting the following: | |
416 | ||
417 | $bin /usr/bin | |
418 | $scriptdir /usr/bin | |
419 | $privlib /usr/lib/perl5/$version | |
420 | $archlib /usr/lib/perl5/$version/$archname | |
421 | $man1dir /usr/man/man1 | |
422 | $man3dir /usr/man/man3 | |
423 | ||
424 | $sitebin /usr/local/bin | |
49c10eea | 425 | $sitescript /usr/local/bin |
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426 | $sitelib /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/$version |
427 | $sitearch /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/$version/$archname | |
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428 | $siteman1 /usr/local/man/man1 |
429 | $siteman3 /usr/local/man/man3 | |
d6baa268 | 430 | |
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431 | $vendorbin /usr/bin |
432 | $vendorscript /usr/bin | |
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433 | $vendorlib /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/$version |
434 | $vendorarch /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/$version/$archname | |
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435 | $vendorman1 /usr/man/man1 |
436 | $vendorman3 /usr/man/man3 | |
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437 | |
438 | Note how in this example, the vendor-supplied directories are in the | |
439 | /usr hierarchy, while the directories reserved for the end-user are in | |
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440 | the /usr/local hierarchy. |
441 | ||
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442 | NOTE: As of 5.6.0, ExtUtils::MakeMaker does not use these directories. |
443 | Volunteers to fix this are needed. | |
444 | ||
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445 | The entire installed library hierarchy is installed in locations with |
446 | version numbers, keeping the installations of different versions distinct. | |
447 | However, later installations of Perl can still be configured to search the | |
448 | installed libraries corresponding to compatible earlier versions. | |
449 | See L<"Coexistence with earlier versions of perl5"> below for more details | |
450 | on how Perl can be made to search older version directories. | |
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451 | |
452 | Of course you may use these directories however you see fit. For | |
453 | example, you may wish to use $siteprefix for site-specific files that | |
454 | are stored locally on your own disk and use $vendorprefix for | |
455 | site-specific files that are stored elsewhere on your organization's | |
456 | network. One way to do that would be something like | |
457 | ||
458 | sh Configure -Dsiteprefix=/usr/local -Dvendorprefix=/usr/share/perl | |
459 | ||
460 | =item otherlibdirs | |
461 | ||
462 | As a final catch-all, Configure also offers an $otherlibdirs | |
463 | variable. This variable contains a colon-separated list of additional | |
464 | directories to add to @INC. By default, it will be set to | |
465 | $prefix/site_perl if Configure detects that you have 5.004-era modules | |
466 | installed there. However, you can set it to anything you like. | |
467 | ||
468 | =item Man Pages | |
1ec51d55 | 469 | |
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470 | In versions 5.005_57 and earlier, the default was to store module man |
471 | pages in a version-specific directory, such as | |
472 | /usr/local/lib/perl5/$version/man/man3. The default for 5.005_58 and | |
473 | after is /usr/local/man/man3 so that most users can find the man pages | |
474 | without resetting MANPATH. | |
4633a7c4 | 475 | |
d6baa268 | 476 | You can continue to use the old default from the command line with |
4633a7c4 | 477 | |
0a08c020 | 478 | sh Configure -Dman3dir=/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.0/man/man3 |
8d74ce1c | 479 | |
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480 | Some users also prefer to use a .3pm suffix. You can do that with |
481 | ||
482 | sh Configure -Dman3ext=3pm | |
483 | ||
484 | Again, these are just the defaults, and can be changed as you run | |
485 | Configure. | |
486 | ||
487 | =item HTML pages | |
488 | ||
489 | As of perl5.005_57, the standard perl installation does not do | |
490 | anything with HTML documentation, but that may change in the future. | |
491 | Further, some add-on modules may wish to install HTML documents. The | |
492 | html Configure variables listed above are provided if you wish to | |
493 | specify where such documents should be placed. The default is "none", | |
494 | but will likely eventually change to something useful based on user | |
495 | feedback. | |
8d74ce1c | 496 | |
d6baa268 | 497 | =back |
8d74ce1c | 498 | |
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499 | Some users prefer to append a "/share" to $privlib and $sitelib |
500 | to emphasize that those directories can be shared among different | |
501 | architectures. | |
4633a7c4 | 502 | |
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503 | Note that these are just the defaults. You can actually structure the |
504 | directories any way you like. They don't even have to be on the same | |
505 | filesystem. | |
506 | ||
507 | Further details about the installation directories, maintenance and | |
508 | development subversions, and about supporting multiple versions are | |
509 | discussed in L<"Coexistence with earlier versions of perl5"> below. | |
510 | ||
511 | If you specify a prefix that contains the string "perl", then the | |
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512 | library directory structure is slightly simplified. Instead of |
513 | suggesting $prefix/lib/perl5/, Configure will suggest $prefix/lib. | |
8d74ce1c | 514 | |
d6baa268 | 515 | Thus, for example, if you Configure with |
0a08c020 | 516 | -Dprefix=/opt/perl, then the default library directories for 5.6.0 are |
3a6175e1 | 517 | |
d6baa268 | 518 | Configure variable Default value |
0a08c020 GS |
519 | $privlib /opt/perl/lib/5.6.0 |
520 | $archlib /opt/perl/lib/5.6.0/$archname | |
521 | $sitelib /opt/perl/lib/site_perl/5.6.0 | |
522 | $sitearch /opt/perl/lib/site_perl/5.6.0/$archname | |
4633a7c4 | 523 | |
aa689395 | 524 | =head2 Changing the installation directory |
525 | ||
526 | Configure distinguishes between the directory in which perl (and its | |
527 | associated files) should be installed and the directory in which it | |
528 | will eventually reside. For most sites, these two are the same; for | |
529 | sites that use AFS, this distinction is handled automatically. | |
1ec51d55 | 530 | However, sites that use software such as depot to manage software |
d6baa268 JH |
531 | packages, or users building binary packages for distribution may also |
532 | wish to install perl into a different directory and use that | |
533 | management software to move perl to its final destination. This | |
534 | section describes how to do that. | |
aa689395 | 535 | |
0dcb58f4 | 536 | Suppose you want to install perl under the /tmp/perl5 directory. You |
d6baa268 JH |
537 | could edit config.sh and change all the install* variables to point to |
538 | /tmp/perl5 instead of /usr/local, or you could simply use the | |
539 | following command line: | |
540 | ||
541 | sh Configure -Dinstallprefix=/tmp/perl5 | |
542 | ||
543 | (replace /tmp/perl5 by a directory of your choice). | |
aa689395 | 544 | |
693762b4 | 545 | Beware, though, that if you go to try to install new add-on |
d6baa268 | 546 | modules, they too will get installed in under '/tmp/perl5' if you |
693762b4 AD |
547 | follow this example. The next section shows one way of dealing with |
548 | that problem. | |
549 | ||
aa689395 | 550 | =head2 Creating an installable tar archive |
551 | ||
552 | If you need to install perl on many identical systems, it is | |
553 | convenient to compile it once and create an archive that can be | |
d6c1b5d3 AD |
554 | installed on multiple systems. Suppose, for example, that you want to |
555 | create an archive that can be installed in /opt/perl. | |
556 | Here's one way to do that: | |
aa689395 | 557 | |
d6baa268 | 558 | # Set up to install perl into a different directory, |
aa689395 | 559 | # e.g. /tmp/perl5 (see previous part). |
d6baa268 | 560 | sh Configure -Dinstallprefix=/tmp/perl5 -Dprefix=/opt/perl -des |
aa689395 | 561 | make |
562 | make test | |
d6c1b5d3 | 563 | make install # This will install everything into /tmp/perl5. |
aa689395 | 564 | cd /tmp/perl5 |
d6c1b5d3 | 565 | # Edit $archlib/Config.pm and $archlib/.packlist to change all the |
fb73857a | 566 | # install* variables back to reflect where everything will |
d6c1b5d3 AD |
567 | # really be installed. (That is, change /tmp/perl5 to /opt/perl |
568 | # everywhere in those files.) | |
569 | # Check the scripts in $scriptdir to make sure they have the correct | |
bfb7748a | 570 | # #!/wherever/perl line. |
aa689395 | 571 | tar cvf ../perl5-archive.tar . |
572 | # Then, on each machine where you want to install perl, | |
d6c1b5d3 | 573 | cd /opt/perl # Or wherever you specified as $prefix |
aa689395 | 574 | tar xvf perl5-archive.tar |
575 | ||
dc45a647 | 576 | =head2 Site-wide Policy settings |
693762b4 AD |
577 | |
578 | After Configure runs, it stores a number of common site-wide "policy" | |
579 | answers (such as installation directories and the local perl contact | |
580 | person) in the Policy.sh file. If you want to build perl on another | |
581 | system using the same policy defaults, simply copy the Policy.sh file | |
582 | to the new system and Configure will use it along with the appropriate | |
583 | hint file for your system. | |
584 | ||
dc45a647 MB |
585 | Alternatively, if you wish to change some or all of those policy |
586 | answers, you should | |
587 | ||
588 | rm -f Policy.sh | |
589 | ||
590 | to ensure that Configure doesn't re-use them. | |
591 | ||
592 | Further information is in the Policy_sh.SH file itself. | |
593 | ||
8d74ce1c AD |
594 | If the generated Policy.sh file is unsuitable, you may freely edit it |
595 | to contain any valid shell commands. It will be run just after the | |
596 | platform-specific hints files. | |
597 | ||
c42e3e15 | 598 | Note: Since the directory hierarchy for 5.6.0 contains a number of |
d6baa268 JH |
599 | new vendor* and site* entries, your Policy.sh file will probably not |
600 | set them to your desired values. I encourage you to run Configure | |
601 | interactively to be sure it puts things where you want them. | |
602 | ||
aa689395 | 603 | =head2 Configure-time Options |
604 | ||
605 | There are several different ways to Configure and build perl for your | |
606 | system. For most users, the defaults are sensible and will work. | |
607 | Some users, however, may wish to further customize perl. Here are | |
608 | some of the main things you can change. | |
609 | ||
693762b4 | 610 | =head2 Threads |
aa689395 | 611 | |
d6baa268 JH |
612 | On some platforms, perl5.005 and later can be compiled with |
613 | experimental support for threads. To enable this, read the file | |
614 | README.threads, and then try: | |
f7542a9d | 615 | |
693762b4 | 616 | sh Configure -Dusethreads |
aa689395 | 617 | |
693762b4 AD |
618 | Currently, you need to specify -Dusethreads on the Configure command |
619 | line so that the hint files can make appropriate adjustments. | |
620 | ||
621 | The default is to compile without thread support. | |
3fe9a6f1 | 622 | |
aaacdc8b GS |
623 | As of v5.5.64, perl has two different internal threads implementations. |
624 | The 5.005 version (5005threads) and an interpreter-based implementation | |
625 | (ithreads) with one interpreter per thread. By default, Configure selects | |
626 | ithreads if -Dusethreads is specified. However, you can select the old | |
627 | 5005threads behavior instead by either | |
628 | ||
629 | sh Configure -Dusethreads -Duse5005threads | |
630 | ||
631 | or by | |
632 | sh Configure -Dusethreads -Uuseithreads | |
633 | ||
634 | Eventually (by perl v5.6.0) this internal confusion ought to disappear, | |
635 | and these options may disappear as well. | |
636 | ||
46bb10fb CS |
637 | =head2 Selecting File IO mechanisms |
638 | ||
639 | Previous versions of perl used the standard IO mechanisms as defined in | |
1ec51d55 | 640 | stdio.h. Versions 5.003_02 and later of perl allow alternate IO |
46bb10fb CS |
641 | mechanisms via a "PerlIO" abstraction, but the stdio mechanism is still |
642 | the default and is the only supported mechanism. | |
643 | ||
644 | This PerlIO abstraction can be enabled either on the Configure command | |
645 | line with | |
646 | ||
647 | sh Configure -Duseperlio | |
648 | ||
649 | or interactively at the appropriate Configure prompt. | |
650 | ||
651 | If you choose to use the PerlIO abstraction layer, there are two | |
652 | (experimental) possibilities for the underlying IO calls. These have been | |
653 | tested to some extent on some platforms, but are not guaranteed to work | |
654 | everywhere. | |
655 | ||
656 | =over 4 | |
657 | ||
658 | =item 1. | |
659 | ||
1ec51d55 | 660 | AT&T's "sfio". This has superior performance to stdio.h in many |
aa689395 | 661 | cases, and is extensible by the use of "discipline" modules. Sfio |
46bb10fb CS |
662 | currently only builds on a subset of the UNIX platforms perl supports. |
663 | Because the data structures are completely different from stdio, perl | |
664 | extension modules or external libraries may not work. This | |
665 | configuration exists to allow these issues to be worked on. | |
666 | ||
667 | This option requires the 'sfio' package to have been built and installed. | |
bfb7748a | 668 | A (fairly old) version of sfio is in CPAN. |
46bb10fb CS |
669 | |
670 | You select this option by | |
671 | ||
672 | sh Configure -Duseperlio -Dusesfio | |
673 | ||
674 | If you have already selected -Duseperlio, and if Configure detects | |
675 | that you have sfio, then sfio will be the default suggested by | |
676 | Configure. | |
677 | ||
d6baa268 JH |
678 | Note: On some systems, sfio's iffe configuration script fails to |
679 | detect that you have an atexit function (or equivalent). Apparently, | |
680 | this is a problem at least for some versions of Linux and SunOS 4. | |
681 | Configure should detect this problem and warn you about problems with | |
682 | _exit vs. exit. If you have this problem, the fix is to go back to | |
683 | your sfio sources and correct iffe's guess about atexit. | |
33e6ee5f AD |
684 | |
685 | There also might be a more recent release of Sfio that fixes your | |
686 | problem. | |
687 | ||
46bb10fb CS |
688 | =item 2. |
689 | ||
690 | Normal stdio IO, but with all IO going through calls to the PerlIO | |
691 | abstraction layer. This configuration can be used to check that perl and | |
692 | extension modules have been correctly converted to use the PerlIO | |
693 | abstraction. | |
694 | ||
695 | This configuration should work on all platforms (but might not). | |
696 | ||
aa689395 | 697 | You select this option via: |
46bb10fb CS |
698 | |
699 | sh Configure -Duseperlio -Uusesfio | |
700 | ||
701 | If you have already selected -Duseperlio, and if Configure does not | |
702 | detect sfio, then this will be the default suggested by Configure. | |
703 | ||
704 | =back | |
705 | ||
d6baa268 JH |
706 | =head2 Dynamic Loading |
707 | ||
708 | By default, Configure will compile perl to use dynamic loading if | |
709 | your system supports it. If you want to force perl to be compiled | |
710 | statically, you can either choose this when Configure prompts you or | |
711 | you can use the Configure command line option -Uusedl. | |
712 | ||
aa689395 | 713 | =head2 Building a shared libperl.so Perl library |
c3edaffb | 714 | |
715 | Currently, for most systems, the main perl executable is built by | |
716 | linking the "perl library" libperl.a with perlmain.o, your static | |
717 | extensions (usually just DynaLoader.a) and various extra libraries, | |
718 | such as -lm. | |
719 | ||
9d67150a | 720 | On some systems that support dynamic loading, it may be possible to |
721 | replace libperl.a with a shared libperl.so. If you anticipate building | |
c3edaffb | 722 | several different perl binaries (e.g. by embedding libperl into |
723 | different programs, or by using the optional compiler extension), then | |
9d67150a | 724 | you might wish to build a shared libperl.so so that all your binaries |
c3edaffb | 725 | can share the same library. |
726 | ||
727 | The disadvantages are that there may be a significant performance | |
9d67150a | 728 | penalty associated with the shared libperl.so, and that the overall |
aa689395 | 729 | mechanism is still rather fragile with respect to different versions |
c3edaffb | 730 | and upgrades. |
731 | ||
732 | In terms of performance, on my test system (Solaris 2.5_x86) the perl | |
9d67150a | 733 | test suite took roughly 15% longer to run with the shared libperl.so. |
c3edaffb | 734 | Your system and typical applications may well give quite different |
735 | results. | |
736 | ||
737 | The default name for the shared library is typically something like | |
a6006777 | 738 | libperl.so.3.2 (for Perl 5.003_02) or libperl.so.302 or simply |
9d67150a | 739 | libperl.so. Configure tries to guess a sensible naming convention |
c3edaffb | 740 | based on your C library name. Since the library gets installed in a |
741 | version-specific architecture-dependent directory, the exact name | |
742 | isn't very important anyway, as long as your linker is happy. | |
743 | ||
744 | For some systems (mostly SVR4), building a shared libperl is required | |
745 | for dynamic loading to work, and hence is already the default. | |
746 | ||
747 | You can elect to build a shared libperl by | |
748 | ||
749 | sh Configure -Duseshrplib | |
750 | ||
2bf2710f GS |
751 | To build a shared libperl, the environment variable controlling shared |
752 | library search (LD_LIBRARY_PATH in most systems, DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH for | |
f556e5b9 | 753 | NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP/Darwin, LIBRARY_PATH for BeOS, SHLIB_PATH for |
4fabb596 | 754 | HP-UX, LIBPATH for AIX, PATH for Cygwin) must be set up to include |
2bf2710f | 755 | the Perl build directory because that's where the shared libperl will |
d6baa268 | 756 | be created. Configure arranges makefile to have the correct shared |
2bf2710f GS |
757 | library search settings. |
758 | ||
759 | However, there are some special cases where manually setting the | |
760 | shared library path might be required. For example, if you want to run | |
761 | something like the following with the newly-built but not-yet-installed | |
762 | ./perl: | |
763 | ||
764 | cd t; ./perl misc/failing_test.t | |
765 | or | |
766 | ./perl -Ilib ~/my_mission_critical_test | |
767 | ||
768 | then you need to set up the shared library path explicitly. | |
769 | You can do this with | |
c3edaffb | 770 | |
771 | LD_LIBRARY_PATH=`pwd`:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH; export LD_LIBRARY_PATH | |
772 | ||
773 | for Bourne-style shells, or | |
774 | ||
775 | setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH `pwd` | |
776 | ||
2bf2710f | 777 | for Csh-style shells. (This procedure may also be needed if for some |
d6baa268 | 778 | unexpected reason Configure fails to set up makefile correctly.) |
2bf2710f GS |
779 | |
780 | You can often recognize failures to build/use a shared libperl from error | |
781 | messages complaining about a missing libperl.so (or libperl.sl in HP-UX), | |
782 | for example: | |
783 | 18126:./miniperl: /sbin/loader: Fatal Error: cannot map libperl.so | |
c3edaffb | 784 | |
9d67150a | 785 | There is also an potential problem with the shared perl library if you |
786 | want to have more than one "flavor" of the same version of perl (e.g. | |
787 | with and without -DDEBUGGING). For example, suppose you build and | |
a6006777 | 788 | install a standard Perl 5.004 with a shared library. Then, suppose you |
789 | try to build Perl 5.004 with -DDEBUGGING enabled, but everything else | |
9d67150a | 790 | the same, including all the installation directories. How can you |
791 | ensure that your newly built perl will link with your newly built | |
7f678428 | 792 | libperl.so.4 rather with the installed libperl.so.4? The answer is |
9d67150a | 793 | that you might not be able to. The installation directory is encoded |
56c6f531 JH |
794 | in the perl binary with the LD_RUN_PATH environment variable (or |
795 | equivalent ld command-line option). On Solaris, you can override that | |
7beaa944 | 796 | with LD_LIBRARY_PATH; on Linux you can't. On Digital Unix, you can |
0dcb58f4 | 797 | override LD_LIBRARY_PATH by setting the _RLD_ROOT environment variable |
7beaa944 | 798 | to point to the perl build directory. |
9d67150a | 799 | |
800 | The only reliable answer is that you should specify a different | |
801 | directory for the architecture-dependent library for your -DDEBUGGING | |
fb73857a | 802 | version of perl. You can do this by changing all the *archlib* |
d6baa268 | 803 | variables in config.sh to point to your new architecture-dependent library. |
9d67150a | 804 | |
55479bb6 AD |
805 | =head2 Malloc Issues |
806 | ||
d6baa268 JH |
807 | Perl relies heavily on malloc(3) to grow data structures as needed, |
808 | so perl's performance can be noticeably affected by the performance of | |
809 | the malloc function on your system. The perl source is shipped with a | |
810 | version of malloc that has been optimized for the typical requests from | |
811 | perl, so there's a chance that it may be both faster and use less memory | |
812 | than your system malloc. | |
55479bb6 | 813 | |
d6baa268 JH |
814 | However, if your system already has an excellent malloc, or if you are |
815 | experiencing difficulties with extensions that use third-party libraries | |
816 | that call malloc, then you should probably use your system's malloc. | |
817 | (Or, you might wish to explore the malloc flags discussed below.) | |
c3edaffb | 818 | |
aa689395 | 819 | =over 4 |
820 | ||
d6baa268 | 821 | =item Using the system malloc |
2ae324a7 | 822 | |
d6baa268 | 823 | To build without perl's malloc, you can use the Configure command |
aa689395 | 824 | |
d6baa268 | 825 | sh Configure -Uusemymalloc |
aa689395 | 826 | |
d6baa268 | 827 | or you can answer 'n' at the appropriate interactive Configure prompt. |
aa689395 | 828 | |
86058a2d GS |
829 | =item -DPERL_POLLUTE_MALLOC |
830 | ||
b2a6d19e GS |
831 | NOTE: This flag is enabled automatically on some platforms if you |
832 | asked for binary compatibility with version 5.005, or if you just | |
833 | run Configure to accept all the defaults on those platforms. You | |
834 | can refuse the automatic binary compatibility flags wholesale by | |
835 | running: | |
836 | ||
837 | sh Configure -Ubincompat5005 | |
838 | ||
839 | or by answering 'n' at the appropriate prompt. | |
840 | ||
d6baa268 | 841 | Perl's malloc family of functions are called Perl_malloc(), |
b2a6d19e GS |
842 | Perl_realloc(), Perl_calloc() and Perl_mfree(). When this flag is |
843 | not enabled, the names do not clash with the system versions of | |
844 | these functions. | |
d6baa268 | 845 | |
b2a6d19e | 846 | If enabled, Perl's malloc family of functions will have the same |
d6baa268 JH |
847 | names as the system versions. This may be sometimes required when you |
848 | have libraries that like to free() data that may have been allocated | |
849 | by Perl_malloc() and vice versa. | |
86058a2d | 850 | |
d6baa268 JH |
851 | Note that enabling this option may sometimes lead to duplicate symbols |
852 | from the linker for malloc et al. In such cases, the system probably | |
853 | does not allow its malloc functions to be fully replaced with custom | |
854 | versions. | |
86058a2d | 855 | |
aa689395 | 856 | =back |
857 | ||
3bf462b8 CS |
858 | =head2 Building a debugging perl |
859 | ||
860 | You can run perl scripts under the perl debugger at any time with | |
3fe9a6f1 | 861 | B<perl -d your_script>. If, however, you want to debug perl itself, |
3bf462b8 CS |
862 | you probably want to do |
863 | ||
864 | sh Configure -Doptimize='-g' | |
865 | ||
203c3eec AD |
866 | This will do two independent things: First, it will force compilation |
867 | to use cc -g so that you can use your system's debugger on the | |
868 | executable. (Note: Your system may actually require something like | |
d6baa268 JH |
869 | cc -g2. Check your man pages for cc(1) and also any hint file for |
870 | your system.) Second, it will add -DDEBUGGING to your ccflags | |
871 | variable in config.sh so that you can use B<perl -D> to access perl's | |
872 | internal state. (Note: Configure will only add -DDEBUGGING by default | |
873 | if you are not reusing your old config.sh. If you want to reuse your | |
874 | old config.sh, then you can just edit it and change the optimize and | |
875 | ccflags variables by hand and then propagate your changes as shown in | |
876 | L<"Propagating your changes to config.sh"> below.) | |
203c3eec AD |
877 | |
878 | You can actually specify -g and -DDEBUGGING independently, but usually | |
879 | it's convenient to have both. | |
3bf462b8 CS |
880 | |
881 | If you are using a shared libperl, see the warnings about multiple | |
882 | versions of perl under L<Building a shared libperl.so Perl library>. | |
883 | ||
8d74ce1c AD |
884 | =head2 Extensions |
885 | ||
886 | By default, Configure will offer to build every extension which appears | |
887 | to be supported. For example, Configure will offer to build GDBM_File | |
888 | only if it is able to find the gdbm library. (See examples below.) | |
889 | B, DynaLoader, Fcntl, IO, and attrs are always built by default. | |
890 | Configure does not contain code to test for POSIX compliance, so POSIX | |
891 | is always built by default as well. If you wish to skip POSIX, you can | |
892 | set the Configure variable useposix=false either in a hint file or from | |
893 | the Configure command line. Similarly, the Opcode extension is always | |
894 | built by default, but you can skip it by setting the Configure variable | |
895 | useopcode=false either in a hint file for from the command line. | |
896 | ||
c42e3e15 GS |
897 | If you unpack any additional extensions in the ext/ directory before |
898 | running Configure, then Configure will offer to build those additional | |
899 | extensions as well. Most users probably shouldn't have to do this -- | |
900 | it is usually easier to build additional extensions later after perl | |
901 | has been installed. However, if you wish to have those additional | |
902 | extensions statically linked into the perl binary, then this offers a | |
903 | convenient way to do that in one step. (It is not necessary, however; | |
904 | you can build and install extensions just fine even if you don't have | |
905 | dynamic loading. See lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm for more details.) | |
906 | ||
907 | You can learn more about each of the supplied extensions by consulting the | |
8d74ce1c AD |
908 | documentation in the individual .pm modules, located under the |
909 | ext/ subdirectory. | |
910 | ||
911 | Even if you do not have dynamic loading, you must still build the | |
912 | DynaLoader extension; you should just build the stub dl_none.xs | |
913 | version. (Configure will suggest this as the default.) | |
914 | ||
915 | In summary, here are the Configure command-line variables you can set | |
916 | to turn off each extension: | |
917 | ||
918 | B (Always included by default) | |
919 | DB_File i_db | |
920 | DynaLoader (Must always be included as a static extension) | |
921 | Fcntl (Always included by default) | |
922 | GDBM_File i_gdbm | |
923 | IO (Always included by default) | |
924 | NDBM_File i_ndbm | |
925 | ODBM_File i_dbm | |
926 | POSIX useposix | |
927 | SDBM_File (Always included by default) | |
928 | Opcode useopcode | |
929 | Socket d_socket | |
a2dab6bc | 930 | Threads use5005threads |
8d74ce1c AD |
931 | attrs (Always included by default) |
932 | ||
933 | Thus to skip the NDBM_File extension, you can use | |
934 | ||
935 | sh Configure -Ui_ndbm | |
936 | ||
937 | Again, this is taken care of automatically if you don't have the ndbm | |
938 | library. | |
939 | ||
940 | Of course, you may always run Configure interactively and select only | |
941 | the extensions you want. | |
942 | ||
943 | Note: The DB_File module will only work with version 1.x of Berkeley | |
944 | DB or newer releases of version 2. Configure will automatically detect | |
945 | this for you and refuse to try to build DB_File with earlier | |
946 | releases of version 2. | |
947 | ||
948 | If you re-use your old config.sh but change your system (e.g. by | |
949 | adding libgdbm) Configure will still offer your old choices of extensions | |
950 | for the default answer, but it will also point out the discrepancy to | |
951 | you. | |
952 | ||
953 | Finally, if you have dynamic loading (most modern Unix systems do) | |
954 | remember that these extensions do not increase the size of your perl | |
955 | executable, nor do they impact start-up time, so you probably might as | |
956 | well build all the ones that will work on your system. | |
957 | ||
958 | =head2 Including locally-installed libraries | |
959 | ||
960 | Perl5 comes with interfaces to number of database extensions, including | |
961 | dbm, ndbm, gdbm, and Berkeley db. For each extension, if | |
962 | Configure can find the appropriate header files and libraries, it will | |
963 | automatically include that extension. The gdbm and db libraries | |
964 | are not included with perl. See the library documentation for | |
965 | how to obtain the libraries. | |
966 | ||
d6baa268 JH |
967 | If your database header (.h) files are not in a directory normally |
968 | searched by your C compiler, then you will need to include the | |
969 | appropriate -I/your/directory option when prompted by Configure. If | |
970 | your database library (.a) files are not in a directory normally | |
971 | searched by your C compiler and linker, then you will need to include | |
972 | the appropriate -L/your/directory option when prompted by Configure. | |
973 | See the examples below. | |
8d74ce1c AD |
974 | |
975 | =head2 Examples | |
976 | ||
977 | =over 4 | |
978 | ||
979 | =item gdbm in /usr/local | |
980 | ||
981 | Suppose you have gdbm and want Configure to find it and build the | |
d6baa268 | 982 | GDBM_File extension. This example assumes you have gdbm.h |
8d74ce1c AD |
983 | installed in /usr/local/include/gdbm.h and libgdbm.a installed in |
984 | /usr/local/lib/libgdbm.a. Configure should figure all the | |
985 | necessary steps out automatically. | |
986 | ||
987 | Specifically, when Configure prompts you for flags for | |
988 | your C compiler, you should include -I/usr/local/include. | |
989 | ||
990 | When Configure prompts you for linker flags, you should include | |
991 | -L/usr/local/lib. | |
992 | ||
993 | If you are using dynamic loading, then when Configure prompts you for | |
994 | linker flags for dynamic loading, you should again include | |
995 | -L/usr/local/lib. | |
996 | ||
d6baa268 JH |
997 | Again, this should all happen automatically. This should also work if |
998 | you have gdbm installed in any of (/usr/local, /opt/local, /usr/gnu, | |
999 | /opt/gnu, /usr/GNU, or /opt/GNU). | |
8d74ce1c AD |
1000 | |
1001 | =item gdbm in /usr/you | |
1002 | ||
1003 | Suppose you have gdbm installed in some place other than /usr/local/, | |
1004 | but you still want Configure to find it. To be specific, assume you | |
1005 | have /usr/you/include/gdbm.h and /usr/you/lib/libgdbm.a. You | |
1006 | still have to add -I/usr/you/include to cc flags, but you have to take | |
1007 | an extra step to help Configure find libgdbm.a. Specifically, when | |
1008 | Configure prompts you for library directories, you have to add | |
1009 | /usr/you/lib to the list. | |
1010 | ||
1011 | It is possible to specify this from the command line too (all on one | |
1012 | line): | |
1013 | ||
d6baa268 | 1014 | sh Configure -de \ |
8d74ce1c AD |
1015 | -Dlocincpth="/usr/you/include" \ |
1016 | -Dloclibpth="/usr/you/lib" | |
1017 | ||
1018 | locincpth is a space-separated list of include directories to search. | |
1019 | Configure will automatically add the appropriate -I directives. | |
1020 | ||
1021 | loclibpth is a space-separated list of library directories to search. | |
1022 | Configure will automatically add the appropriate -L directives. If | |
1023 | you have some libraries under /usr/local/ and others under | |
1024 | /usr/you, then you have to include both, namely | |
1025 | ||
d6baa268 | 1026 | sh Configure -de \ |
8d74ce1c AD |
1027 | -Dlocincpth="/usr/you/include /usr/local/include" \ |
1028 | -Dloclibpth="/usr/you/lib /usr/local/lib" | |
1029 | ||
1030 | =back | |
1031 | ||
8e07c86e AD |
1032 | =head2 What if it doesn't work? |
1033 | ||
8d74ce1c AD |
1034 | If you run into problems, try some of the following ideas. |
1035 | If none of them help, then see L<"Reporting Problems"> below. | |
1036 | ||
8e07c86e AD |
1037 | =over 4 |
1038 | ||
25f94b33 AD |
1039 | =item Running Configure Interactively |
1040 | ||
1041 | If Configure runs into trouble, remember that you can always run | |
1042 | Configure interactively so that you can check (and correct) its | |
1043 | guesses. | |
1044 | ||
1045 | All the installation questions have been moved to the top, so you don't | |
aa689395 | 1046 | have to wait for them. Once you've handled them (and your C compiler and |
1ec51d55 | 1047 | flags) you can type &-d at the next Configure prompt and Configure |
25f94b33 AD |
1048 | will use the defaults from then on. |
1049 | ||
1050 | If you find yourself trying obscure command line incantations and | |
1051 | config.over tricks, I recommend you run Configure interactively | |
1052 | instead. You'll probably save yourself time in the long run. | |
1053 | ||
aa689395 | 1054 | =item Hint files |
8e07c86e AD |
1055 | |
1056 | The perl distribution includes a number of system-specific hints files | |
1057 | in the hints/ directory. If one of them matches your system, Configure | |
1058 | will offer to use that hint file. | |
1059 | ||
1060 | Several of the hint files contain additional important information. | |
f5b3b617 AD |
1061 | If you have any problems, it is a good idea to read the relevant hint file |
1062 | for further information. See hints/solaris_2.sh for an extensive example. | |
1063 | More information about writing good hints is in the hints/README.hints | |
1064 | file. | |
8e07c86e | 1065 | |
edb1cbcb | 1066 | =item *** WHOA THERE!!! *** |
1067 | ||
1068 | Occasionally, Configure makes a wrong guess. For example, on SunOS | |
1069 | 4.1.3, Configure incorrectly concludes that tzname[] is in the | |
1070 | standard C library. The hint file is set up to correct for this. You | |
1071 | will see a message: | |
1072 | ||
1073 | *** WHOA THERE!!! *** | |
1074 | The recommended value for $d_tzname on this machine was "undef"! | |
1075 | Keep the recommended value? [y] | |
1076 | ||
1077 | You should always keep the recommended value unless, after reading the | |
1078 | relevant section of the hint file, you are sure you want to try | |
1079 | overriding it. | |
1080 | ||
1081 | If you are re-using an old config.sh, the word "previous" will be | |
1082 | used instead of "recommended". Again, you will almost always want | |
1083 | to keep the previous value, unless you have changed something on your | |
1084 | system. | |
1085 | ||
1086 | For example, suppose you have added libgdbm.a to your system | |
1087 | and you decide to reconfigure perl to use GDBM_File. When you run | |
1088 | Configure again, you will need to add -lgdbm to the list of libraries. | |
bfb7748a AD |
1089 | Now, Configure will find your gdbm include file and library and will |
1090 | issue a message: | |
edb1cbcb | 1091 | |
1092 | *** WHOA THERE!!! *** | |
1093 | The previous value for $i_gdbm on this machine was "undef"! | |
1094 | Keep the previous value? [y] | |
1095 | ||
1ec51d55 | 1096 | In this case, you do not want to keep the previous value, so you |
c3edaffb | 1097 | should answer 'n'. (You'll also have to manually add GDBM_File to |
edb1cbcb | 1098 | the list of dynamic extensions to build.) |
1099 | ||
8e07c86e AD |
1100 | =item Changing Compilers |
1101 | ||
1102 | If you change compilers or make other significant changes, you should | |
1ec51d55 | 1103 | probably not re-use your old config.sh. Simply remove it or |
8e07c86e AD |
1104 | rename it, e.g. mv config.sh config.sh.old. Then rerun Configure |
1105 | with the options you want to use. | |
1106 | ||
1ec51d55 CS |
1107 | This is a common source of problems. If you change from cc to |
1108 | gcc, you should almost always remove your old config.sh. | |
8e07c86e | 1109 | |
c3edaffb | 1110 | =item Propagating your changes to config.sh |
8e07c86e | 1111 | |
1ec51d55 CS |
1112 | If you make any changes to config.sh, you should propagate |
1113 | them to all the .SH files by running | |
1114 | ||
1115 | sh Configure -S | |
1116 | ||
1117 | You will then have to rebuild by running | |
9d67150a | 1118 | |
1119 | make depend | |
1120 | make | |
8e07c86e AD |
1121 | |
1122 | =item config.over | |
1123 | ||
1124 | You can also supply a shell script config.over to over-ride Configure's | |
1125 | guesses. It will get loaded up at the very end, just before config.sh | |
1126 | is created. You have to be careful with this, however, as Configure | |
d6baa268 | 1127 | does no checking that your changes make sense. |
8e07c86e AD |
1128 | |
1129 | =item config.h | |
1130 | ||
1ec51d55 CS |
1131 | Many of the system dependencies are contained in config.h. |
1132 | Configure builds config.h by running the config_h.SH script. | |
1133 | The values for the variables are taken from config.sh. | |
8e07c86e | 1134 | |
1ec51d55 CS |
1135 | If there are any problems, you can edit config.h directly. Beware, |
1136 | though, that the next time you run Configure, your changes will be | |
8e07c86e AD |
1137 | lost. |
1138 | ||
1139 | =item cflags | |
1140 | ||
1141 | If you have any additional changes to make to the C compiler command | |
1ec51d55 CS |
1142 | line, they can be made in cflags.SH. For instance, to turn off the |
1143 | optimizer on toke.c, find the line in the switch structure for | |
1144 | toke.c and put the command optimize='-g' before the ;; . You | |
1145 | can also edit cflags directly, but beware that your changes will be | |
1146 | lost the next time you run Configure. | |
8e07c86e | 1147 | |
f5b3b617 AD |
1148 | To explore various ways of changing ccflags from within a hint file, |
1149 | see the file hints/README.hints. | |
1150 | ||
1151 | To change the C flags for all the files, edit config.sh and change either | |
1152 | $ccflags or $optimize, and then re-run | |
1ec51d55 CS |
1153 | |
1154 | sh Configure -S | |
1155 | make depend | |
8e07c86e | 1156 | |
aa689395 | 1157 | =item No sh |
8e07c86e | 1158 | |
c42e3e15 GS |
1159 | If you don't have sh, you'll have to copy the sample file |
1160 | Porting/config.sh to config.sh and edit your config.sh to reflect your | |
1161 | system's peculiarities. See Porting/pumpkin.pod for more information. | |
8e07c86e AD |
1162 | You'll probably also have to extensively modify the extension building |
1163 | mechanism. | |
1164 | ||
d6baa268 JH |
1165 | =item Environment variable clashes |
1166 | ||
1167 | Configure uses a CONFIG variable that is reported to cause trouble on | |
1168 | ReliantUnix 5.44. If your system sets this variable, you can try | |
1169 | unsetting it before you run Configure. Configure should eventually | |
1170 | be fixed to avoid polluting the namespace of the environment. | |
1171 | ||
1172 | =item Digital UNIX/Tru64 UNIX and BIN_SH | |
1173 | ||
1174 | In Digital UNIX/Tru64 UNIX, Configure might abort with | |
1175 | ||
1176 | Build a threading Perl? [n] | |
1177 | Configure[2437]: Syntax error at line 1 : `config.sh' is not expected. | |
1178 | ||
1179 | This indicates that Configure is being run with a broken Korn shell | |
1180 | (even though you think you are using a Bourne shell by using | |
1181 | "sh Configure" or "./Configure"). The Korn shell bug has been reported | |
1182 | to Compaq as of February 1999 but in the meanwhile, the reason ksh is | |
1183 | being used is that you have the environment variable BIN_SH set to | |
1184 | 'xpg4'. This causes /bin/sh to delegate its duties to /bin/posix/sh | |
1185 | (a ksh). Unset the environment variable and rerun Configure. | |
1186 | ||
1187 | =item HP-UX 11, pthreads, and libgdbm | |
1188 | ||
1189 | If you are running Configure with -Dusethreads in HP-UX 11, be warned | |
1190 | that POSIX threads and libgdbm (the GNU dbm library) compiled before | |
1191 | HP-UX 11 do not mix. This will cause a basic test run by Configure to | |
1192 | fail | |
1193 | ||
1194 | Pthread internal error: message: __libc_reinit() failed, file: ../pthreads/pthread.c, line: 1096 | |
1195 | Return Pointer is 0xc082bf33 | |
1196 | sh: 5345 Quit(coredump) | |
1197 | ||
1198 | and Configure will give up. The cure is to recompile and install | |
1199 | libgdbm under HP-UX 11. | |
1200 | ||
c3edaffb | 1201 | =item Porting information |
1202 | ||
2ae324a7 | 1203 | Specific information for the OS/2, Plan9, VMS and Win32 ports is in the |
1ec51d55 CS |
1204 | corresponding README files and subdirectories. Additional information, |
1205 | including a glossary of all those config.sh variables, is in the Porting | |
c42e3e15 | 1206 | subdirectory. Especially Porting/Glossary should come in handy. |
c3edaffb | 1207 | |
7f678428 | 1208 | Ports for other systems may also be available. You should check out |
1ec51d55 | 1209 | http://www.perl.com/CPAN/ports for current information on ports to |
7f678428 | 1210 | various other operating systems. |
1211 | ||
491517e0 JA |
1212 | If you plan to port Perl to a new architecture study carefully the |
1213 | section titled "Philosophical Issues in Patching and Porting Perl" | |
1214 | in the file Porting/pumpkin.pod and the file Porting/patching.pod. | |
1215 | Study also how other non-UNIX ports have solved problems. | |
1216 | ||
8e07c86e AD |
1217 | =back |
1218 | ||
1219 | =head1 make depend | |
1220 | ||
bfb7748a AD |
1221 | This will look for all the includes. The output is stored in makefile. |
1222 | The only difference between Makefile and makefile is the dependencies at | |
1223 | the bottom of makefile. If you have to make any changes, you should edit | |
1224 | makefile, not Makefile since the Unix make command reads makefile first. | |
1225 | (On non-Unix systems, the output may be stored in a different file. | |
1226 | Check the value of $firstmakefile in your config.sh if in doubt.) | |
8e07c86e AD |
1227 | |
1228 | Configure will offer to do this step for you, so it isn't listed | |
1229 | explicitly above. | |
1230 | ||
1231 | =head1 make | |
1232 | ||
1233 | This will attempt to make perl in the current directory. | |
1234 | ||
8d74ce1c AD |
1235 | =head2 What if it doesn't work? |
1236 | ||
8e07c86e | 1237 | If you can't compile successfully, try some of the following ideas. |
7f678428 | 1238 | If none of them help, and careful reading of the error message and |
8d74ce1c AD |
1239 | the relevant manual pages on your system doesn't help, |
1240 | then see L<"Reporting Problems"> below. | |
8e07c86e AD |
1241 | |
1242 | =over 4 | |
1243 | ||
1ec51d55 | 1244 | =item hints |
8e07c86e AD |
1245 | |
1246 | If you used a hint file, try reading the comments in the hint file | |
1247 | for further tips and information. | |
1248 | ||
1ec51d55 | 1249 | =item extensions |
8e07c86e | 1250 | |
1ec51d55 | 1251 | If you can successfully build miniperl, but the process crashes |
c3edaffb | 1252 | during the building of extensions, you should run |
1253 | ||
3a6175e1 | 1254 | make minitest |
c3edaffb | 1255 | |
1256 | to test your version of miniperl. | |
1257 | ||
e57fd563 | 1258 | =item locale |
1259 | ||
bfb7748a AD |
1260 | If you have any locale-related environment variables set, try unsetting |
1261 | them. I have some reports that some versions of IRIX hang while | |
1262 | running B<./miniperl configpm> with locales other than the C locale. | |
1263 | See the discussion under L<"make test"> below about locales and the | |
1264 | whole L<"Locale problems"> section in the file pod/perllocale.pod. | |
3e6e419a JH |
1265 | The latter is especially useful if you see something like this |
1266 | ||
1267 | perl: warning: Setting locale failed. | |
1268 | perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: | |
1269 | LC_ALL = "En_US", | |
1270 | LANG = (unset) | |
1271 | are supported and installed on your system. | |
1272 | perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C"). | |
1273 | ||
1274 | at Perl startup. | |
e57fd563 | 1275 | |
7f678428 | 1276 | =item varargs |
c3edaffb | 1277 | |
1278 | If you get varargs problems with gcc, be sure that gcc is installed | |
bfb7748a AD |
1279 | correctly and that you are not passing -I/usr/include to gcc. When using |
1280 | gcc, you should probably have i_stdarg='define' and i_varargs='undef' | |
1281 | in config.sh. The problem is usually solved by running fixincludes | |
1282 | correctly. If you do change config.sh, don't forget to propagate | |
1283 | your changes (see L<"Propagating your changes to config.sh"> below). | |
7f678428 | 1284 | See also the L<"vsprintf"> item below. |
c3edaffb | 1285 | |
bfb7748a | 1286 | =item util.c |
c3edaffb | 1287 | |
1288 | If you get error messages such as the following (the exact line | |
bfb7748a | 1289 | numbers and function name may vary in different versions of perl): |
c3edaffb | 1290 | |
bfb7748a AD |
1291 | util.c: In function `Perl_form': |
1292 | util.c:1107: number of arguments doesn't match prototype | |
1293 | proto.h:125: prototype declaration | |
c3edaffb | 1294 | |
1295 | it might well be a symptom of the gcc "varargs problem". See the | |
7f678428 | 1296 | previous L<"varargs"> item. |
c3edaffb | 1297 | |
9d67150a | 1298 | =item Solaris and SunOS dynamic loading |
c3edaffb | 1299 | |
1300 | If you have problems with dynamic loading using gcc on SunOS or | |
1301 | Solaris, and you are using GNU as and GNU ld, you may need to add | |
1ec51d55 | 1302 | -B/bin/ (for SunOS) or -B/usr/ccs/bin/ (for Solaris) to your |
c3edaffb | 1303 | $ccflags, $ldflags, and $lddlflags so that the system's versions of as |
6877a1cf AD |
1304 | and ld are used. Note that the trailing '/' is required. |
1305 | Alternatively, you can use the GCC_EXEC_PREFIX | |
c3edaffb | 1306 | environment variable to ensure that Sun's as and ld are used. Consult |
1ec51d55 | 1307 | your gcc documentation for further information on the -B option and |
c3edaffb | 1308 | the GCC_EXEC_PREFIX variable. |
1309 | ||
7beaa944 AD |
1310 | One convenient way to ensure you are not using GNU as and ld is to |
1311 | invoke Configure with | |
1312 | ||
1313 | sh Configure -Dcc='gcc -B/usr/ccs/bin/' | |
1314 | ||
1315 | for Solaris systems. For a SunOS system, you must use -B/bin/ | |
1316 | instead. | |
1317 | ||
84902520 TB |
1318 | Alternatively, recent versions of GNU ld reportedly work if you |
1319 | include C<-Wl,-export-dynamic> in the ccdlflags variable in | |
1320 | config.sh. | |
1321 | ||
9d67150a | 1322 | =item ld.so.1: ./perl: fatal: relocation error: |
1323 | ||
1324 | If you get this message on SunOS or Solaris, and you're using gcc, | |
7f678428 | 1325 | it's probably the GNU as or GNU ld problem in the previous item |
1326 | L<"Solaris and SunOS dynamic loading">. | |
9d67150a | 1327 | |
1ec51d55 | 1328 | =item LD_LIBRARY_PATH |
c3edaffb | 1329 | |
1330 | If you run into dynamic loading problems, check your setting of | |
aa689395 | 1331 | the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable. If you're creating a static |
1332 | Perl library (libperl.a rather than libperl.so) it should build | |
c3edaffb | 1333 | fine with LD_LIBRARY_PATH unset, though that may depend on details |
1334 | of your local set-up. | |
1335 | ||
1336 | =item dlopen: stub interception failed | |
1337 | ||
1338 | The primary cause of the 'dlopen: stub interception failed' message is | |
1339 | that the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable includes a directory | |
1340 | which is a symlink to /usr/lib (such as /lib). | |
1341 | ||
aa689395 | 1342 | The reason this causes a problem is quite subtle. The file libdl.so.1.0 |
c3edaffb | 1343 | actually *only* contains functions which generate 'stub interception |
1344 | failed' errors! The runtime linker intercepts links to | |
1345 | "/usr/lib/libdl.so.1.0" and links in internal implementation of those | |
1346 | functions instead. [Thanks to Tim Bunce for this explanation.] | |
1347 | ||
aa689395 | 1348 | =item nm extraction |
c3edaffb | 1349 | |
1350 | If Configure seems to be having trouble finding library functions, | |
1351 | try not using nm extraction. You can do this from the command line | |
1352 | with | |
1353 | ||
1354 | sh Configure -Uusenm | |
1355 | ||
1356 | or by answering the nm extraction question interactively. | |
1ec51d55 | 1357 | If you have previously run Configure, you should not reuse your old |
c3edaffb | 1358 | config.sh. |
1359 | ||
bfb7748a AD |
1360 | =item umask not found |
1361 | ||
1362 | If the build processes encounters errors relating to umask(), the problem | |
1363 | is probably that Configure couldn't find your umask() system call. | |
1364 | Check your config.sh. You should have d_umask='define'. If you don't, | |
1365 | this is probably the L<"nm extraction"> problem discussed above. Also, | |
1366 | try reading the hints file for your system for further information. | |
1367 | ||
7f678428 | 1368 | =item vsprintf |
c3edaffb | 1369 | |
1370 | If you run into problems with vsprintf in compiling util.c, the | |
1371 | problem is probably that Configure failed to detect your system's | |
1372 | version of vsprintf(). Check whether your system has vprintf(). | |
1373 | (Virtually all modern Unix systems do.) Then, check the variable | |
1374 | d_vprintf in config.sh. If your system has vprintf, it should be: | |
1375 | ||
1376 | d_vprintf='define' | |
1377 | ||
1378 | If Configure guessed wrong, it is likely that Configure guessed wrong | |
bfb7748a AD |
1379 | on a number of other common functions too. This is probably |
1380 | the L<"nm extraction"> problem discussed above. | |
c3edaffb | 1381 | |
3fe9a6f1 | 1382 | =item do_aspawn |
1383 | ||
1384 | If you run into problems relating to do_aspawn or do_spawn, the | |
1385 | problem is probably that Configure failed to detect your system's | |
bfb7748a AD |
1386 | fork() function. Follow the procedure in the previous item |
1387 | on L<"nm extraction">. | |
3fe9a6f1 | 1388 | |
84902520 TB |
1389 | =item __inet_* errors |
1390 | ||
1391 | If you receive unresolved symbol errors during Perl build and/or test | |
1392 | referring to __inet_* symbols, check to see whether BIND 8.1 is | |
1393 | installed. It installs a /usr/local/include/arpa/inet.h that refers to | |
1394 | these symbols. Versions of BIND later than 8.1 do not install inet.h | |
1395 | in that location and avoid the errors. You should probably update to a | |
1396 | newer version of BIND. If you can't, you can either link with the | |
1397 | updated resolver library provided with BIND 8.1 or rename | |
1398 | /usr/local/bin/arpa/inet.h during the Perl build and test process to | |
1399 | avoid the problem. | |
1400 | ||
d6baa268 JH |
1401 | =item #error "No DATAMODEL_NATIVE specified" |
1402 | ||
1403 | This is a common error when trying to build perl on Solaris 2.6 with a | |
1404 | gcc installation from Solaris 2.5 or 2.5.1. The Solaris header files | |
1405 | changed, so you need to update your gcc installation. You can either | |
1406 | rerun the fixincludes script from gcc or take the opportunity to | |
1407 | update your gcc installation. | |
1408 | ||
aa689395 | 1409 | =item Optimizer |
c3edaffb | 1410 | |
9d67150a | 1411 | If you can't compile successfully, try turning off your compiler's |
aa689395 | 1412 | optimizer. Edit config.sh and change the line |
9d67150a | 1413 | |
1414 | optimize='-O' | |
1415 | ||
bfb7748a | 1416 | to |
9d67150a | 1417 | |
1418 | optimize=' ' | |
1419 | ||
1420 | then propagate your changes with B<sh Configure -S> and rebuild | |
1421 | with B<make depend; make>. | |
1422 | ||
1ec51d55 | 1423 | =item CRIPPLED_CC |
9d67150a | 1424 | |
1b1c1ae2 GS |
1425 | If you still can't compile successfully, try: |
1426 | ||
1427 | sh Configure -Accflags=-DCRIPPLED_CC | |
1428 | ||
1429 | This flag simplifies some complicated expressions for compilers that get | |
1430 | indigestion easily. (Just because you get no errors doesn't mean it | |
1431 | compiled right!) | |
9d67150a | 1432 | |
1433 | =item Missing functions | |
1434 | ||
1435 | If you have missing routines, you probably need to add some library or | |
1436 | other, or you need to undefine some feature that Configure thought was | |
1437 | there but is defective or incomplete. Look through config.h for | |
bfb7748a AD |
1438 | likely suspects. If Configure guessed wrong on a number of functions, |
1439 | you might have the L<"nm extraction"> problem discussed above. | |
8e07c86e | 1440 | |
1ec51d55 | 1441 | =item toke.c |
8e07c86e | 1442 | |
1ec51d55 CS |
1443 | Some compilers will not compile or optimize the larger files (such as |
1444 | toke.c) without some extra switches to use larger jump offsets or | |
1445 | allocate larger internal tables. You can customize the switches for | |
1446 | each file in cflags. It's okay to insert rules for specific files into | |
1447 | makefile since a default rule only takes effect in the absence of a | |
8e07c86e AD |
1448 | specific rule. |
1449 | ||
7f678428 | 1450 | =item Missing dbmclose |
8e07c86e | 1451 | |
c3edaffb | 1452 | SCO prior to 3.2.4 may be missing dbmclose(). An upgrade to 3.2.4 |
1453 | that includes libdbm.nfs (which includes dbmclose()) may be available. | |
8e07c86e | 1454 | |
f3d9a6ba | 1455 | =item Note (probably harmless): No library found for -lsomething |
7f678428 | 1456 | |
1457 | If you see such a message during the building of an extension, but | |
1458 | the extension passes its tests anyway (see L<"make test"> below), | |
1459 | then don't worry about the warning message. The extension | |
1460 | Makefile.PL goes looking for various libraries needed on various | |
aa689395 | 1461 | systems; few systems will need all the possible libraries listed. |
7f678428 | 1462 | For example, a system may have -lcposix or -lposix, but it's |
1463 | unlikely to have both, so most users will see warnings for the one | |
f3d9a6ba CS |
1464 | they don't have. The phrase 'probably harmless' is intended to |
1465 | reassure you that nothing unusual is happening, and the build | |
1466 | process is continuing. | |
7f678428 | 1467 | |
1468 | On the other hand, if you are building GDBM_File and you get the | |
1469 | message | |
1470 | ||
f3d9a6ba | 1471 | Note (probably harmless): No library found for -lgdbm |
7f678428 | 1472 | |
1473 | then it's likely you're going to run into trouble somewhere along | |
1474 | the line, since it's hard to see how you can use the GDBM_File | |
1475 | extension without the -lgdbm library. | |
1476 | ||
1477 | It is true that, in principle, Configure could have figured all of | |
1478 | this out, but Configure and the extension building process are not | |
1479 | quite that tightly coordinated. | |
1480 | ||
aa689395 | 1481 | =item sh: ar: not found |
1482 | ||
1483 | This is a message from your shell telling you that the command 'ar' | |
1484 | was not found. You need to check your PATH environment variable to | |
1485 | make sure that it includes the directory with the 'ar' command. This | |
1ec51d55 | 1486 | is a common problem on Solaris, where 'ar' is in the /usr/ccs/bin |
aa689395 | 1487 | directory. |
1488 | ||
1489 | =item db-recno failure on tests 51, 53 and 55 | |
1490 | ||
1491 | Old versions of the DB library (including the DB library which comes | |
1492 | with FreeBSD 2.1) had broken handling of recno databases with modified | |
1493 | bval settings. Upgrade your DB library or OS. | |
1494 | ||
6087ac44 JH |
1495 | =item Bad arg length for semctl, is XX, should be ZZZ |
1496 | ||
1497 | If you get this error message from the lib/ipc_sysv test, your System | |
1498 | V IPC may be broken. The XX typically is 20, and that is what ZZZ | |
1499 | also should be. Consider upgrading your OS, or reconfiguring your OS | |
1500 | to include the System V semaphores. | |
1501 | ||
220f3621 GS |
1502 | =item lib/ipc_sysv........semget: No space left on device |
1503 | ||
1504 | Either your account or the whole system has run out of semaphores. Or | |
1505 | both. Either list the semaphores with "ipcs" and remove the unneeded | |
1506 | ones (which ones these are depends on your system and applications) | |
1507 | with "ipcrm -s SEMAPHORE_ID_HERE" or configure more semaphores to your | |
1508 | system. | |
1509 | ||
d6baa268 JH |
1510 | =item GNU binutils |
1511 | ||
1512 | If you mix GNU binutils (nm, ld, ar) with equivalent vendor-supplied | |
1513 | tools you may be in for some trouble. For example creating archives | |
1514 | with an old GNU 'ar' and then using a new current vendor-supplied 'ld' | |
1515 | may lead into linking problems. Either recompile your GNU binutils | |
1516 | under your current operating system release, or modify your PATH not | |
1517 | to include the GNU utils before running Configure, or specify the | |
1518 | vendor-supplied utilities explicitly to Configure, for example by | |
1519 | Configure -Dar=/bin/ar. | |
1520 | ||
1ec51d55 | 1521 | =item Miscellaneous |
8e07c86e AD |
1522 | |
1523 | Some additional things that have been reported for either perl4 or perl5: | |
1524 | ||
1525 | Genix may need to use libc rather than libc_s, or #undef VARARGS. | |
1526 | ||
1527 | NCR Tower 32 (OS 2.01.01) may need -W2,-Sl,2000 and #undef MKDIR. | |
1528 | ||
1ec51d55 | 1529 | UTS may need one or more of -DCRIPPLED_CC, -K or -g, and undef LSTAT. |
8e07c86e | 1530 | |
220f3621 GS |
1531 | FreeBSD can fail the lib/ipc_sysv.t test if SysV IPC has not been |
1532 | configured to the kernel. Perl tries to detect this, though, and | |
1533 | you will get a message telling what to do. | |
6087ac44 | 1534 | |
8e07c86e AD |
1535 | If you get syntax errors on '(', try -DCRIPPLED_CC. |
1536 | ||
1537 | Machines with half-implemented dbm routines will need to #undef I_ODBM | |
1538 | ||
d6baa268 JH |
1539 | HP-UX 11 Y2K patch "Y2K-1100 B.11.00.B0125 HP-UX Core OS Year 2000 |
1540 | Patch Bundle" has been reported to break the io/fs test #18 which | |
1541 | tests whether utime() can change timestamps. The Y2K patch seems to | |
1542 | break utime() so that over NFS the timestamps do not get changed | |
1543 | (on local filesystems utime() still works). | |
1544 | ||
8e07c86e AD |
1545 | =back |
1546 | ||
1547 | =head1 make test | |
1548 | ||
d6baa268 JH |
1549 | This will run the regression tests on the perl you just made. If |
1550 | 'make test' doesn't say "All tests successful" then something went | |
1551 | wrong. See the file t/README in the t subdirectory. | |
84902520 | 1552 | |
84902520 | 1553 | Note that you can't run the tests in background if this disables |
fb73857a | 1554 | opening of /dev/tty. You can use 'make test-notty' in that case but |
1555 | a few tty tests will be skipped. | |
c3edaffb | 1556 | |
c4f23d77 AD |
1557 | =head2 What if make test doesn't work? |
1558 | ||
1ec51d55 CS |
1559 | If make test bombs out, just cd to the t directory and run ./TEST |
1560 | by hand to see if it makes any difference. If individual tests | |
c3edaffb | 1561 | bomb, you can run them by hand, e.g., |
8e07c86e AD |
1562 | |
1563 | ./perl op/groups.t | |
1564 | ||
aa689395 | 1565 | Another way to get more detailed information about failed tests and |
1ec51d55 | 1566 | individual subtests is to cd to the t directory and run |
aa689395 | 1567 | |
1568 | ./perl harness | |
1569 | ||
fb73857a | 1570 | (this assumes that most basic tests succeed, since harness uses |
aa689395 | 1571 | complicated constructs). |
1572 | ||
fb73857a | 1573 | You should also read the individual tests to see if there are any helpful |
c3edaffb | 1574 | comments that apply to your system. |
1575 | ||
c4f23d77 AD |
1576 | =over 4 |
1577 | ||
1578 | =item locale | |
1579 | ||
1ec51d55 | 1580 | Note: One possible reason for errors is that some external programs |
c07a80fd | 1581 | may be broken due to the combination of your environment and the way |
3fe9a6f1 | 1582 | B<make test> exercises them. For example, this may happen if you have |
1ec51d55 CS |
1583 | one or more of these environment variables set: LC_ALL LC_CTYPE |
1584 | LC_COLLATE LANG. In some versions of UNIX, the non-English locales | |
e57fd563 | 1585 | are known to cause programs to exhibit mysterious errors. |
1586 | ||
1587 | If you have any of the above environment variables set, please try | |
aa689395 | 1588 | |
1589 | setenv LC_ALL C | |
1590 | ||
1591 | (for C shell) or | |
1592 | ||
1593 | LC_ALL=C;export LC_ALL | |
1594 | ||
1ec51d55 CS |
1595 | for Bourne or Korn shell) from the command line and then retry |
1596 | make test. If the tests then succeed, you may have a broken program that | |
aa689395 | 1597 | is confusing the testing. Please run the troublesome test by hand as |
e57fd563 | 1598 | shown above and see whether you can locate the program. Look for |
1ec51d55 CS |
1599 | things like: exec, `backquoted command`, system, open("|...") or |
1600 | open("...|"). All these mean that Perl is trying to run some | |
e57fd563 | 1601 | external program. |
eed2e782 | 1602 | |
c4f23d77 AD |
1603 | =item Out of memory |
1604 | ||
1605 | On some systems, particularly those with smaller amounts of RAM, some | |
1606 | of the tests in t/op/pat.t may fail with an "Out of memory" message. | |
7970f296 GS |
1607 | For example, on my SparcStation IPC with 12 MB of RAM, in perl5.5.670, |
1608 | test 85 will fail if run under either t/TEST or t/harness. | |
c4f23d77 AD |
1609 | |
1610 | Try stopping other jobs on the system and then running the test by itself: | |
1611 | ||
1612 | cd t; ./perl op/pat.t | |
1613 | ||
1614 | to see if you have any better luck. If your perl still fails this | |
1615 | test, it does not necessarily mean you have a broken perl. This test | |
1616 | tries to exercise the regular expression subsystem quite thoroughly, | |
1617 | and may well be far more demanding than your normal usage. | |
1618 | ||
c4f23d77 AD |
1619 | =back |
1620 | ||
8e07c86e AD |
1621 | =head1 make install |
1622 | ||
1623 | This will put perl into the public directory you specified to | |
1ec51d55 | 1624 | Configure; by default this is /usr/local/bin. It will also try |
8e07c86e | 1625 | to put the man pages in a reasonable place. It will not nroff the man |
aa689395 | 1626 | pages, however. You may need to be root to run B<make install>. If you |
8e07c86e AD |
1627 | are not root, you must own the directories in question and you should |
1628 | ignore any messages about chown not working. | |
1629 | ||
dd64f1c3 AD |
1630 | =head2 Installing perl under different names |
1631 | ||
1632 | If you want to install perl under a name other than "perl" (for example, | |
1633 | when installing perl with special features enabled, such as debugging), | |
1634 | indicate the alternate name on the "make install" line, such as: | |
1635 | ||
1636 | make install PERLNAME=myperl | |
1637 | ||
beb13193 RS |
1638 | You can separately change the base used for versioned names (like |
1639 | "perl5.005") by setting PERLNAME_VERBASE, like | |
1640 | ||
1641 | make install PERLNAME=perl5 PERLNAME_VERBASE=perl | |
1642 | ||
1643 | This can be useful if you have to install perl as "perl5" (due to an | |
1644 | ancient version in /usr/bin supplied by your vendor, eg). Without this | |
1645 | the versioned binary would be called "perl55.005". | |
1646 | ||
dd64f1c3 AD |
1647 | =head2 Installed files |
1648 | ||
8e07c86e AD |
1649 | If you want to see exactly what will happen without installing |
1650 | anything, you can run | |
4633a7c4 | 1651 | |
8e07c86e AD |
1652 | ./perl installperl -n |
1653 | ./perl installman -n | |
1654 | ||
1ec51d55 | 1655 | make install will install the following: |
8e07c86e AD |
1656 | |
1657 | perl, | |
1658 | perl5.nnn where nnn is the current release number. This | |
1659 | will be a link to perl. | |
1660 | suidperl, | |
1661 | sperl5.nnn If you requested setuid emulation. | |
1662 | a2p awk-to-perl translator | |
1663 | cppstdin This is used by perl -P, if your cc -E can't | |
1664 | read from stdin. | |
1665 | c2ph, pstruct Scripts for handling C structures in header files. | |
1666 | s2p sed-to-perl translator | |
1667 | find2perl find-to-perl translator | |
aa689395 | 1668 | h2ph Extract constants and simple macros from C headers |
8e07c86e | 1669 | h2xs Converts C .h header files to Perl extensions. |
24b3df7f | 1670 | perlbug Tool to report bugs in Perl. |
8e07c86e | 1671 | perldoc Tool to read perl's pod documentation. |
aa689395 | 1672 | pl2pm Convert Perl 4 .pl files to Perl 5 .pm modules |
8e07c86e | 1673 | pod2html, Converters from perl's pod documentation format |
aa689395 | 1674 | pod2latex, to other useful formats. |
1675 | pod2man, and | |
1676 | pod2text | |
1677 | splain Describe Perl warnings and errors | |
95667ae4 | 1678 | dprofpp Perl code profile post-processor |
8e07c86e AD |
1679 | |
1680 | library files in $privlib and $archlib specified to | |
1681 | Configure, usually under /usr/local/lib/perl5/. | |
d6baa268 JH |
1682 | man pages in $man1dir, usually /usr/local/man/man1. |
1683 | module man | |
1684 | pages in $man3dir, usually /usr/local/man/man3. | |
8e07c86e AD |
1685 | pod/*.pod in $privlib/pod/. |
1686 | ||
d6baa268 JH |
1687 | Installperl will also create the directories listed above |
1688 | in L<"Installation Directories">. | |
4633a7c4 | 1689 | |
56c6f531 | 1690 | Perl's *.h header files and the libperl.a library are also installed |
d6baa268 | 1691 | under $archlib so that any user may later build new modules, run the |
56c6f531 JH |
1692 | optional Perl compiler, or embed the perl interpreter into another |
1693 | program even if the Perl source is no longer available. | |
8e07c86e | 1694 | |
aa689395 | 1695 | =head1 Coexistence with earlier versions of perl5 |
4633a7c4 | 1696 | |
693762b4 AD |
1697 | In general, you can usually safely upgrade from one version of Perl (e.g. |
1698 | 5.004_04) to another similar version (e.g. 5.004_05) without re-compiling | |
1699 | all of your add-on extensions. You can also safely leave the old version | |
1700 | around in case the new version causes you problems for some reason. | |
1701 | For example, if you want to be sure that your script continues to run | |
dc45a647 | 1702 | with 5.004_04, simply replace the '#!/usr/local/bin/perl' line at the |
693762b4 AD |
1703 | top of the script with the particular version you want to run, e.g. |
1704 | #!/usr/local/bin/perl5.00404. | |
1705 | ||
693762b4 AD |
1706 | Most extensions will probably not need to be recompiled to use |
1707 | with a newer version of perl. Here is how it is supposed to work. | |
1708 | (These examples assume you accept all the Configure defaults.) | |
1709 | ||
d6baa268 JH |
1710 | Suppose you already have version 5.005_03 installed. The directories |
1711 | searched by 5.005_03 are | |
1712 | ||
1713 | /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.00503/$archname | |
1714 | /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.00503 | |
1715 | /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/$archname | |
1716 | /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005 | |
1717 | ||
0a08c020 GS |
1718 | Beginning with 5.6.0 the version number in the site libraries are |
1719 | fully versioned. Now, suppose you install version 5.6.0. The directories | |
1720 | searched by version 5.6.0 will be | |
d6baa268 | 1721 | |
0a08c020 GS |
1722 | /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.0/$archname |
1723 | /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.0 | |
1724 | /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/$archname | |
1725 | /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0 | |
d6baa268 JH |
1726 | |
1727 | /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/$archname | |
1728 | /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005 | |
c42e3e15 | 1729 | /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/ |
bfb7748a | 1730 | |
c42e3e15 | 1731 | Notice the last three entries -- Perl understands the default structure |
d6baa268 JH |
1732 | of the $sitelib directories and will look back in older, compatible |
1733 | directories. This way, modules installed under 5.005_03 will continue | |
0a08c020 | 1734 | to be usable by 5.005_03 but will also accessible to 5.6.0. Further, |
d6baa268 | 1735 | suppose that you upgrade a module to one which requires features |
0a08c020 GS |
1736 | present only in 5.6.0. That new module will get installed into |
1737 | /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0 and will be available to 5.6.0, | |
d6baa268 | 1738 | but will not interfere with the 5.005_03 version. |
bfb7748a | 1739 | |
c42e3e15 GS |
1740 | The last entry, /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/, is there so that |
1741 | 5.6.0 will look for 5.004-era pure perl modules. | |
d6baa268 | 1742 | |
0a08c020 GS |
1743 | Lastly, suppose you now install version 5.6.1, which we'll assume is |
1744 | binary compatible with 5.6.0 and 5.005. The directories searched | |
1745 | by 5.6.1 (if you don't change the Configure defaults) will be: | |
d6baa268 | 1746 | |
265f5c4a GS |
1747 | /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.1/$archname |
1748 | /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.1 | |
0a08c020 GS |
1749 | /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/$archname |
1750 | /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1 | |
1751 | ||
1752 | /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/$archname | |
1753 | /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0 | |
d6baa268 JH |
1754 | |
1755 | /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/$archname | |
1756 | /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005 | |
1757 | /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/ | |
bfb7748a | 1758 | |
0a08c020 GS |
1759 | Assuming the users in your site are still actively using perl 5.6.0 and |
1760 | 5.005 after you installed 5.6.1, you can continue to install add-on | |
1761 | extensions using any of perl 5.6.1, 5.6.0, or 5.005. The installations | |
1762 | of these different versions remain distinct, but remember that the newer | |
1763 | versions of perl are automatically set up to search the site libraries of | |
1764 | the older ones. This means that installing a new extension with 5.005 | |
1765 | will make it visible to all three versions. Later, if you install the | |
1766 | same extension using, say, perl 5.6.1, it will override the 5.005-installed | |
1767 | version, but only for perl 5.6.1. | |
1768 | ||
1769 | This way, you can choose to share compatible extensions, but also upgrade | |
1770 | to a newer version of an extension that may be incompatible with earlier | |
1771 | versions, without breaking the earlier versions' installations. | |
693762b4 AD |
1772 | |
1773 | =head2 Maintaining completely separate versions | |
4633a7c4 | 1774 | |
1ec51d55 | 1775 | Many users prefer to keep all versions of perl in completely |
d6baa268 | 1776 | separate directories. This guarantees that an update to one version |
0a08c020 GS |
1777 | won't interfere with another version. (The defaults guarantee this for |
1778 | libraries after 5.6.0, but not for executables. TODO?) One convenient | |
1779 | way to do this is by using a separate prefix for each version, such as | |
d52d4e46 | 1780 | |
46bb10fb | 1781 | sh Configure -Dprefix=/opt/perl5.004 |
d52d4e46 | 1782 | |
46bb10fb | 1783 | and adding /opt/perl5.004/bin to the shell PATH variable. Such users |
d52d4e46 | 1784 | may also wish to add a symbolic link /usr/local/bin/perl so that |
1785 | scripts can still start with #!/usr/local/bin/perl. | |
1786 | ||
693762b4 AD |
1787 | Others might share a common directory for maintenance sub-versions |
1788 | (e.g. 5.004 for all 5.004_0x versions), but change directory with | |
1789 | each major version. | |
1790 | ||
6877a1cf AD |
1791 | If you are installing a development subversion, you probably ought to |
1792 | seriously consider using a separate directory, since development | |
1793 | subversions may not have all the compatibility wrinkles ironed out | |
1794 | yet. | |
1795 | ||
0a08c020 | 1796 | =head2 Upgrading from 5.005 to 5.6.0 |
693762b4 | 1797 | |
c42e3e15 GS |
1798 | Most extensions built and installed with versions of perl |
1799 | prior to 5.005_50 will not need to be recompiled to be used with | |
1800 | 5.6.0. If you find you do need to rebuild an extension with 5.6.0, | |
1801 | you may safely do so without disturbing the 5.005 installation. | |
1802 | (See L<"Coexistence with earlier versions of perl5"> above.) | |
1803 | ||
1804 | See your installed copy of the perllocal.pod file for a (possibly | |
1805 | incomplete) list of locally installed modules. Note that you want | |
1806 | perllocal.pod not perllocale.pod for installed module information. | |
693762b4 | 1807 | |
8e07c86e AD |
1808 | =head1 Coexistence with perl4 |
1809 | ||
1810 | You can safely install perl5 even if you want to keep perl4 around. | |
1811 | ||
1ec51d55 CS |
1812 | By default, the perl5 libraries go into /usr/local/lib/perl5/, so |
1813 | they don't override the perl4 libraries in /usr/local/lib/perl/. | |
8e07c86e AD |
1814 | |
1815 | In your /usr/local/bin directory, you should have a binary named | |
1ec51d55 | 1816 | perl4.036. That will not be touched by the perl5 installation |
8e07c86e AD |
1817 | process. Most perl4 scripts should run just fine under perl5. |
1818 | However, if you have any scripts that require perl4, you can replace | |
d6baa268 JH |
1819 | the #! line at the top of them by #!/usr/local/bin/perl4.036 (or |
1820 | whatever the appropriate pathname is). See pod/perltrap.pod for | |
1821 | possible problems running perl4 scripts under perl5. | |
8e07c86e | 1822 | |
aa689395 | 1823 | =head1 cd /usr/include; h2ph *.h sys/*.h |
1824 | ||
d6baa268 JH |
1825 | Some perl scripts need to be able to obtain information from the |
1826 | system header files. This command will convert the most commonly used | |
1ec51d55 | 1827 | header files in /usr/include into files that can be easily interpreted |
d6baa268 JH |
1828 | by perl. These files will be placed in the architecture-dependent |
1829 | library ($archlib) directory you specified to Configure. | |
aa689395 | 1830 | |
d6baa268 JH |
1831 | Note: Due to differences in the C and perl languages, the conversion |
1832 | of the header files is not perfect. You will probably have to | |
1833 | hand-edit some of the converted files to get them to parse correctly. | |
1834 | For example, h2ph breaks spectacularly on type casting and certain | |
1835 | structures. | |
aa689395 | 1836 | |
fb73857a | 1837 | =head1 installhtml --help |
aa689395 | 1838 | |
3e3baf6d TB |
1839 | Some sites may wish to make perl documentation available in HTML |
1840 | format. The installhtml utility can be used to convert pod | |
fb73857a | 1841 | documentation into linked HTML files and install them. |
aa689395 | 1842 | |
d6baa268 JH |
1843 | Currently, the supplied ./installhtml script does not make use of the |
1844 | html Configure variables. This should be fixed in a future release. | |
1845 | ||
fb73857a | 1846 | The following command-line is an example of one used to convert |
3e3baf6d | 1847 | perl documentation: |
aa689395 | 1848 | |
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1849 | ./installhtml \ |
1850 | --podroot=. \ | |
1851 | --podpath=lib:ext:pod:vms \ | |
1852 | --recurse \ | |
1853 | --htmldir=/perl/nmanual \ | |
1854 | --htmlroot=/perl/nmanual \ | |
1855 | --splithead=pod/perlipc \ | |
1856 | --splititem=pod/perlfunc \ | |
1857 | --libpods=perlfunc:perlguts:perlvar:perlrun:perlop \ | |
1858 | --verbose | |
1859 | ||
1860 | See the documentation in installhtml for more details. It can take | |
1861 | many minutes to execute a large installation and you should expect to | |
1862 | see warnings like "no title", "unexpected directive" and "cannot | |
1863 | resolve" as the files are processed. We are aware of these problems | |
1864 | (and would welcome patches for them). | |
aa689395 | 1865 | |
fb73857a | 1866 | You may find it helpful to run installhtml twice. That should reduce |
1867 | the number of "cannot resolve" warnings. | |
1868 | ||
aa689395 | 1869 | =head1 cd pod && make tex && (process the latex files) |
1870 | ||
1871 | Some sites may also wish to make the documentation in the pod/ directory | |
1872 | available in TeX format. Type | |
1873 | ||
1874 | (cd pod && make tex && <process the latex files>) | |
1875 | ||
1876 | =head1 Reporting Problems | |
1877 | ||
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1878 | If you have difficulty building perl, and none of the advice in this file |
1879 | helps, and careful reading of the error message and the relevant manual | |
1880 | pages on your system doesn't help either, then you should send a message | |
1881 | to either the comp.lang.perl.misc newsgroup or to perlbug@perl.com with | |
1882 | an accurate description of your problem. | |
aa689395 | 1883 | |
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1884 | Please include the output of the ./myconfig shell script that comes with |
1885 | the distribution. Alternatively, you can use the perlbug program that | |
1886 | comes with the perl distribution, but you need to have perl compiled | |
1887 | before you can use it. (If you have not installed it yet, you need to | |
f5b3b617 | 1888 | run C<./perl -Ilib utils/perlbug> instead of a plain C<perlbug>.) |
aa689395 | 1889 | |
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1890 | Please try to make your message brief but clear. Trim out unnecessary |
1891 | information. Do not include large files (such as config.sh or a complete | |
1892 | Configure or make log) unless absolutely necessary. Do not include a | |
1893 | complete transcript of your build session. Just include the failing | |
d6baa268 | 1894 | commands, the relevant error messages, and whatever preceding commands |
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1895 | are necessary to give the appropriate context. Plain text should |
1896 | usually be sufficient--fancy attachments or encodings may actually | |
1897 | reduce the number of people who read your message. Your message | |
1898 | will get relayed to over 400 subscribers around the world so please | |
1899 | try to keep it brief but clear. | |
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1901 | =head1 DOCUMENTATION |
1902 | ||
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1903 | Read the manual entries before running perl. The main documentation |
1904 | is in the pod/ subdirectory and should have been installed during the | |
8e07c86e | 1905 | build process. Type B<man perl> to get started. Alternatively, you |
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1906 | can type B<perldoc perl> to use the supplied perldoc script. This is |
1907 | sometimes useful for finding things in the library modules. | |
8e07c86e | 1908 | |
1ec51d55 | 1909 | Under UNIX, you can produce a documentation book in postscript form, |
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1910 | along with its table of contents, by going to the pod/ subdirectory and |
1911 | running (either): | |
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1912 | |
1913 | ./roffitall -groff # If you have GNU groff installed | |
aa689395 | 1914 | ./roffitall -psroff # If you have psroff |
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1915 | |
1916 | This will leave you with two postscript files ready to be printed. | |
aa689395 | 1917 | (You may need to fix the roffitall command to use your local troff |
1918 | set-up.) | |
34a2a22e | 1919 | |
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1920 | Note that you must have performed the installation already before running |
1921 | the above, since the script collects the installed files to generate | |
1922 | the documentation. | |
34a2a22e | 1923 | |
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1924 | =head1 AUTHOR |
1925 | ||
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1926 | Original author: Andy Dougherty doughera@lafayette.edu , borrowing very |
1927 | heavily from the original README by Larry Wall, with lots of helpful | |
1928 | feedback and additions from the perl5-porters@perl.org folks. | |
fb73857a | 1929 | |
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1930 | If you have problems, corrections, or questions, please see |
1931 | L<"Reporting Problems"> above. | |
1932 | ||
1933 | =head1 REDISTRIBUTION | |
1934 | ||
1935 | This document is part of the Perl package and may be distributed under | |
d6baa268 | 1936 | the same terms as perl itself, with the following additional request: |
f5b3b617 | 1937 | If you are distributing a modified version of perl (perhaps as part of |
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1938 | a larger package) please B<do> modify these installation instructions |
1939 | and the contact information to match your distribution. | |
8e07c86e | 1940 | |
a5f75d66 | 1941 | =head1 LAST MODIFIED |
24b3df7f | 1942 | |
d6baa268 | 1943 | $Id: INSTALL,v 1.58 1999/07/23 14:43:00 doughera Exp $ |