6.31. Installing Perl-5.8.0

Estimated build time:           3.81 SBU
Estimated required disk space:  52 MB

6.31.1. Installation of Perl

Install Perl by running the following commands:

./configure.gnu --prefix=/usr &&
make &&
make install

If you want more control over the way perl sets itself up to be built, you can run the interactive Configure script and modify the way perl is built. If you think you can live with the (sensible) defaults perl auto-detects, then just use the commands listed above.

6.31.2. Contents of Perl

Last checked against version 5.6.1.

6.31.2.2. Descriptions

6.31.3. Perl Installation Dependencies

Last checked against version 5.6.1.

Bash: sh
Binutils: ar, as, ld, nm
Diffutils: cmp
Fileutils: chmod, cp, ln, ls, mkdir, mv, rm, touch
Gcc: cc, cc1, collect2, cpp0, gcc
Grep: egrep, grep
Make: make
Gawk: awk
Sed: sed
Sh-utils: basename, date, echo, expr, hostname, pwd, uname, whoami
Textutils: cat, comm, sort, split, tr, uniq, wc