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Fix GH #17007 (cherry picked from commit b9677ee9a1dd1f5d79c5ab3e2e788eea65c20253) Signed-off-by: Nicolas R <atoomic@cpan.org>
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If you read this file _as_is_, just ignore the funny characters you
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see. It is written in the POD format (see pod/perlpod.pod) which is
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specifically designed to be readable as is.
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=head1 NAME
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perllinux - Perl version 5 on Linux systems
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=head1 DESCRIPTION
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This document describes various features of Linux that will affect how Perl
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version 5 (hereafter just Perl) is compiled and/or runs.
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=head2 Deploying Perl on Linux
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Normally one can install F</usr/bin/perl> on Linux using your distribution's
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package manager (e.g: C<sudo apt-get install perl>, or
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C<sudo dnf install perl>). Note that sometimes one needs to install some
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extra system packages in order to be able to use CPAN frontends, and that
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messing with the system's perl is not always recommended. One can use
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L<perlbrew|https://perlbrew.pl/> to avoid such issues.
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Otherwise, perl should build fine on Linux using the mainstream compilers
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GCC and clang, while following the usual instructions.
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=head2 Experimental Support for Sun Studio Compilers for Linux OS
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Sun Microsystems has released a port of their Sun Studio compilers for
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Linux. As of May 2019, the last stable release took place on 2017, and one can
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buy support contracts for them.
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There are some special instructions for building Perl with Sun Studio on
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Linux. Following the normal C<Configure>, you have to run make as follows:
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LDLOADLIBS=-lc make
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C<LDLOADLIBS> is an environment variable used by the linker to link
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C</ext> modules to glibc. Currently, that environment variable is not getting
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populated by a combination of C<Config> entries and C<ExtUtil::MakeMaker>.
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While there may be a bug somewhere in Perl's configuration or
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C<ExtUtil::MakeMaker> causing the problem, the most likely cause is an
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incomplete understanding of Sun Studio by this author. Further investigation
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is needed to get this working better.
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=head1 AUTHOR
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Steve Peters <steve@fisharerojo.org>
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Please report any errors, updates, or suggestions to
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L<https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues>.
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