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| 1 | WELCOME to Plan 9 Perl, brave soul! |
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| 2 | This is a preliminary alpha version of Plan 9 Perl. Still to be implemented are MakeMaker and DynaLoader. Many perl commands are missing or currently behave in an inscrutable manner. These gaps will, with perserverance and a modicum of luck, be remedied in the near future.To install this software: |
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| 4 | 1. Create the source directories and libraries for perl by running the plan9/setup.rc command (i.e., located in the plan9 subdirectory). Note: the setup routine assumes that you haven't dearchived these files into /sys/src/cmd/perl. After running setup.rc you may delete the copy of the source you originally detarred, as source code has now been installed in /sys/src/cmd/perl. If you plan on installing perl binaries for all architectures, run "setup.rc -a". |
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| 5 | After |
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| 6 | 2. Making sure that you have adequate privileges to build system software, from /sys/src/cmd/perl/5.00301 run: |
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| 7 | mk install |
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| 8 | If you wish to install perl versions for all architectures (68020, mips, sparc and 386) run: |
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| 9 | mk installall |
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| 11 | 3. Wait. The build process will take a *long* time because perl bootstraps itself. A 75MHz Pentium, 16MB RAM machine takes roughly 30 minutes to build the distribution from scratch. |
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| 13 | INSTALLING DOCUMENTATION |
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| 14 | This perl distribution comes with a tremendous amount of documentation. To add these to the built-in manuals that come with Plan 9, from /sys/src/cmd/perl/5.00301 run: |
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| 15 | mk man |
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| 16 | To begin your reading, start with: |
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| 17 | man perl |
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| 18 | This is a good introduction and will direct you towards other man pages that may interest you. For information specific to Plan 9 Perl, try: |
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| 19 | man perlplan9 |
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| 21 | (Note: "mk man" may produce some extraneous noise. Fear not.) |
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| 23 | Direct questions, comments, and the unlikely bug report (ahem) direct comments toward: |
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| 24 | lutherh@stratcom.com |
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| 26 | Luther Huffman |
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| 27 | Strategic Computer Solutions, Inc. |
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