compiling perl for PPC32 and || PPC64

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Re: compiling perl for PPC32 and \|\| PPC64 by syphilis (Archbishop) on Aug 11, 2014 at 00:43 UTC
I got rid of the mac OS that came with my PPC box and replaced it with Debian Wheezy. After Wheezy had been installed, there were a few things I had to apt-get in order to acquire the full toolchain needed to build perl. Once that was all done, building perl was quite trivial - just run Configure with whatever args you choose, followed by 'make', 'make test' and 'make install'. I didn't even try to build perl on that machine while the mac system was in place - so I probably have no experience that can help you in that regard. Cheers, Rob	[reply]
Re: compiling perl for PPC32 and \|\| PPC64 by Anonymous Monk on Aug 10, 2014 at 23:24 UTC
http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git?a=search&h=HEAD&st=grep&s=PPC64, http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git?a=search&h=HEAD&st=grep&s=PPC -> perlmacosx	[reply]
Re: compiling perl for PPC32 and \|\| PPC64 by jfroebe (Parson) on Aug 11, 2014 at 15:49 UTC
Which operating system are you using for your powerpc box? Linux? *BSD? AIX? Jason L. Froebe Blog, Tech Blog	[reply]
Re^2: compiling perl for PPC32 and \|\| PPC64 by james28909 (Deacon) on Aug 11, 2014 at 19:58 UTC
i will be trying it out on linux. this will be my first ever endeavour in reguards to powerpc and perl on a different OS than windows.	[reply]
Re^3: compiling perl for PPC32 and \|\| PPC64 by syphilis (Archbishop) on Aug 11, 2014 at 23:00 UTC
If you haven't installed the OS yet, you'll find the Deb Wheezy images for PowerPC at http://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/debian-installer/ I don't know what sort of mileage the other Linux flavours offer wrt PowerPC - I guess we might find out something more about that if you install a different one ;-) I'm interested to hear how it goes for you. Cheers, Rob	[reply]