perllinux

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 \s-1OS\s0

Sun Microsystems has released a port of their Sun Studio compiliers 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 CWConfigure, you have to run make as follows:
LDLOADLIBS=-lc make
CWLDLOADLIBS is an environment variable used by the linker to link modules CW/ext modules to glibc. Currently, that environment variable is not getting populated by a combination of CWConfig entries and CWExtUtil::MakeMaker. While there may be a bug somewhere in Perl's configuration or CWExtUtil::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.