perllinux
NAME
perllinux - Perl version 5 on Linux systems
DESCRIPTION
This document describes various features of Linux that will affect how Perl version 5 (hereafter just Perl) is compiled and/or runs.
Deploying Perl on Linux
Normally one can install /usr/bin/perl on Linux using your distribution's
package manager (e.g: sudo apt-get install perl
, or
sudo dnf install perl
). Note that sometimes one needs to install some
extra system packages in order to be able to use CPAN frontends, and that
messing with the system's perl is not always recommended. One can use
perlbrew to avoid such issues.
Otherwise, perl should build fine on Linux using the mainstream compilers GCC and clang, while following the usual instructions.
Experimental Support for Sun Studio Compilers for Linux OS
Sun Microsystems has released a port of their Sun Studio compilers for Linux. As of May 2019, the last stable release took place on 2017, and one can buy support contracts for them.
There are some special instructions for building Perl with Sun Studio on
Linux. Following the normal Configure
, you have to run make as follows:
- LDLOADLIBS=-lc make
LDLOADLIBS
is an environment variable used by the linker to link
/ext modules to glibc. Currently, that environment variable is not getting
populated by a combination of Config
entries and ExtUtil::MakeMaker
.
While there may be a bug somewhere in Perl's configuration or
ExtUtil::MakeMaker
causing the problem, the most likely cause is an
incomplete understanding of Sun Studio by this author. Further investigation
is needed to get this working better.
AUTHOR
Steve Peters <steve@fisharerojo.org>
Please report any errors, updates, or suggestions to https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues.