README.linux - Perl version 5 on Linux systems
This document describes various features of Linux that will affect how Perl version 5 (hereafter just Perl) is compiled and/or runs.
Sun Microsystems has released a port of their Sun Studio compilers for Linux. As of November 2005, only an alpha version has been released. Until a release of these compilers is made, support for compiling Perl with these compiler experimental.
Also, 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 modules
/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.
Steve Peters <steve@fisharerojo.org>
Please report any errors, updates, or suggestions to perlbug@perl.org.