Details on this package are located in Section 6.37.2, “Contents of Perl.”
The Perl package contains the Practical Extraction and Report Language.
First apply the following patch to adapt some hard-wired paths to the C library:
patch -Np1 -i ../perl-5.16.1-libc-2.patch
Prepare Perl for compilation:
sh Configure -des -Dprefix=/tools
Build the package:
make
Although Perl comes with a test suite, it would be better to wait until it is insalled in the next chapter.
Only a few of the utilities and libraries, need to be installed at this time:
cp -v perl cpan/podlators/pod2man /tools/bin mkdir -pv /tools/lib/perl5/5.16.1 cp -Rv lib/* /tools/lib/perl5/5.16.1
Details on this package are located in Section 6.37.2, “Contents of Perl.”