The Perl package contains the Practical Extraction and Report Language.
Approximate build time: 0.8 SBU Required disk space: 74 MB
Perl installation 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-5.8.4-libc-1.patch
Perl insists on using the arch program to find out the machine type. Create a little script to mimic this command:
echo "uname -m" > /tools/bin/arch chmod 755 /tools/bin/arch
Now prepare Perl for compilation (make sure you get the 'IO Fcntl POSIX' right, they are all letters):
./configure.gnu --prefix=/tools -Dstatic_ext='IO Fcntl POSIX'
The meaning of the configure option:
-Dstatic_ext='IO Fcntl POSIX': This tells Perl to build the minimum set of static extensions needed for installing and testing the Coreutils package 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/perl5/5.8.4 cp -R lib/* /tools/lib/perl5/5.8.4
The details on this package are found in the section called “Contents of Perl”.