NAME¶
README.linux - 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.
Experimental Support for Sun Studio Compilers for Linux OS¶
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.
AUTHOR¶
Steve Peters <steve@fisharerojo.org>
Please report any errors, updates, or suggestions to
perlbug@perl.org.