Approximate build time: 0.8 SBU Required disk space: 74 MB |
Official download location for Perl (5.8.3):
http://www.cpan.org/src/
And for the Perl Libc Patch:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/cvs/perl-5.8.3-libc-1.patch
For its installation Perl depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, Gawk, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, Sed.
First adapt some hard-wired paths to the C library:
patch -Np1 -i ../perl-5.8.3-libc-1.patch |
Now prepare Perl for compilation (make sure to get the 'IO Fcntl' right, they are all letters):
./configure.gnu --prefix=/tools -Dstatic_ext='IO Fcntl' |
The meaning of the configure option:
-Dstatic_ext='IO Fcntl': This tells Perl to build the minimum set of static extensions needed for running the Coreutils test suite in the next chapter.
Compile only the required tools:
make perl utilities |
Then copy these tools and their libraries:
cp perl pod/pod2man /tools/bin mkdir -p /tools/lib/perl5/5.8.3 cp -R lib/* /tools/lib/perl5/5.8.3 |
The details on this package are found in the Section called Contents of Perl in Chapter 6.