If there is a hint file for your system (in the hints/ directory) you
should also read that hint file for specific information for your
-system. (Unixware users should use the svr4.sh hint file.)
+system. (Unixware users should use the svr4.sh or the svr5.sh hint file.)
Additional information is in the Porting/ directory.
=head1 WARNING: This version requires an extra step to build old extensions.
find it. It's often a good idea to have both /usr/bin/perl and
/usr/local/bin/perl be symlinks to the actual binary. Be especially
careful, however, not to overwrite a version of perl supplied by your
-vendor unless you are sure you know what you are doing.
+vendor unless you are sure you know what you are doing. If you insist
+on replacing your vendor's perl, useful information on how it was
+configured may be found with
-By default, Configure will arrange for /usr/bin/perl to be linked to
-the current version of perl. You can turn off that behavior by running
+ perl -V:config_args
- Configure -Uinstallusrbinperl
+(Check the output carefully, however, since this doesn't preserve
+spaces in arguments to Configure. For that, you have to look
+carefully at config_arg1, config_arg2, etc.)
-or by answering 'no' to the appropriate Configure prompt.
+By default, Configure will not try to link /usr/bin/perl to
+the current version of perl. You can turn on that behavior by running
+
+ Configure -Dinstallusrbinperl
+
+or by answering 'yes' to the appropriate Configure prompt.
+(Note that before perl 5.8.1, the default behavior was to create
+or overwrite /usr/bin/perl even if it already existed.)
In any case, system administrators are strongly encouraged to
put (symlinks to) perl and its accompanying utilities, such as perldoc,
$sitescript $siteprefix/bin
$sitelib $siteprefix/lib/perl5/site_perl/$version
$sitearch $siteprefix/lib/perl5/site_perl/$version/$archname
- $siteman1 $siteprefix/man/man1
- $siteman3 $siteprefix/man/man3
- $sitehtml1 (none)
- $sitehtml3 (none)
+ $siteman1dir $siteprefix/man/man1
+ $siteman3dir $siteprefix/man/man3
+ $sitehtml1dir (none)
+ $sitehtml3dir (none)
By default, ExtUtils::MakeMaker will install architecture-independent
modules into $sitelib and architecture-dependent modules into $sitearch.
$vendorscript $vendorprefix/bin
$vendorlib $vendorprefix/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/$version
$vendorarch $vendorprefix/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/$version/$archname
- $vendorman1 $vendorprefix/man/man1
- $vendorman3 $vendorprefix/man/man3
- $vendorhtml1 (none)
- $vendorhtml3 (none)
+ $vendorman1dir $vendorprefix/man/man1
+ $vendorman3dir $vendorprefix/man/man3
+ $vendorhtml1dir (none)
+ $vendorhtml3dir (none)
These are normally empty, but may be set as needed. For example,
a vendor might choose the following settings:
$sitescript /usr/local/bin
$sitelib /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/$version
$sitearch /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/$version/$archname
- $siteman1 /usr/local/man/man1
- $siteman3 /usr/local/man/man3
+ $siteman1dir /usr/local/man/man1
+ $siteman3dir /usr/local/man/man3
$vendorbin /usr/bin
$vendorscript /usr/bin
$vendorlib /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/$version
$vendorarch /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/$version/$archname
- $vendorman1 /usr/man/man1
- $vendorman3 /usr/man/man3
+ $vendorman1dir /usr/man/man1
+ $vendorman3dir /usr/man/man3
Note how in this example, the vendor-supplied directories are in the
/usr hierarchy, while the directories reserved for the end-user are in
cd /opt/perl # Or wherever you specified as $prefix
tar xvf perl5-archive.tar
+Alternatively, the DESTDIR variable is honored during C<make install>.
+The DESTDIR is automatically prepended to all the installation paths
+(and there is no need to edit anything). With DESTDIR, the above
+example can we written as:
+
+ sh Configure -Dprefix=/opt/perl -des
+ make
+ make test
+ make install DESTDIR=/tmp/perl5
+ cd /tmp/perl5/opt/perl
+ tar cvf /tmp/perl5-archive.tar .
+
=head2 Site-wide Policy settings
After Configure runs, it stores a number of common site-wide "policy"
In Perl 5.8.1 a security feature was introduced to make it harder
to create such degenerate hashes.
-Because of this feature the keys(), values(), and each() functions
-may return the hash elements in different order between different
-runs of Perl even with the same data. The additional randomisation
-is enabled if the environment variable PERL_HASH_SEED is set, see
-perlrun for details.
-
-One make the randomisation default by adding -DUSE_HASH_SEED to the
-compilation flags, or completely disable it by adding -DNO_HASH_SEED.
+Because of this feature the keys(), values(), and each() functions may
+return the hash elements in different order between different runs of
+Perl even with the same data. One can still revert to the old
+repeatable order by setting the environment variable PERL_HASH_SEED,
+see L<perlrun/PERL_HASH_SEED>. Another option is to add
+-DUSE_HASH_SEED_EXPLICIT to the compilation flags (for example by
+using C<Configure -Accflags=-DUSE_HAS_SEED_EXPLICIT>), in which case
+one has to explicitly set the PERL_HASH_SEED environment variable to
+enable the security feature, or by adding -DNO_HASH_SEED to the compilation
+flags to completely disable the randomisation feature.
B<Perl has never guaranteed any ordering of the hash keys>, and the
ordering has already changed several times during the lifetime of
Digital Unix, you can override LD_LIBRARY_PATH by setting the
_RLD_ROOT environment variable to point to the perl build directory.
-The only reliable answer is that you should specify a different
-directory for the architecture-dependent library for your -DDEBUGGING
-version of perl. You can do this by changing all the *archlib*
-variables in config.sh to point to your new architecture-dependent library.
+In other words, it is generally not a good idea to try to build a perl
+with a shared library if $archlib/CORE/$libperl already exists from a
+previous build.
+
+A good workaround is to specify a different directory for the
+architecture-dependent library for your -DDEBUGGING version of perl.
+You can do this by changing all the *archlib* variables in config.sh to
+point to your new architecture-dependent library.
=head2 Malloc Issues
This will attempt to make perl in the current directory.
+=head2 Expected errors
+
+These errors are normal, and can be ignored:
+
+ ...
+ make: [extra.pods] Error 1 (ignored)
+ ...
+ make: [extras.make] Error 1 (ignored)
+
=head2 What if it doesn't work?
If you can't compile successfully, try some of the following ideas.
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