Building your own Perl is not really hard and I guess it's unlikely that you will find support outside from SCO for that OS.
As I've been thinking today about writing a simple list on how to build your own Perl, you get these thoughts:
- Verify that you have a C compiler and a make tool installed. Typing gcc or cc or cl should launch some program. If you don't know what your C compiler is called, ask your system administrator. The same holds true for make, dmake or nmake.
- Download the current stable Perl tarball from here. This link is supposed to always give you the latest stable version of Perl.
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Untar the archive (presuming GNU tar):
untar xvf stable.tar.gz
- Print out and read the file INSTALL
- (Optional) Print out and read the file README.os (where os means your OS)
- Type the magic invocation from the INSTALL file:
sh Configure -Dprefix=/opt/perl
If you want to install Perl below your home directory, use:
sh Configure -Dprefix=/home/you/perl
- Accept all defaults and watch Configure work its magic. Wait until it's done.
- Now, type make
- Watch make complete. If there are any errors here, look at README.os again and find out what platform specific changes you need.
- Type make test
- Watch how Perl tests itself. In theory you should get 100% OK, but depending on how adventurous you feel, you can also accept a test success of 98%. You should report the failure with your OS and the exact failed tests somewhere though.
- Type make install to finally install your own Perl.
- Change the path or set up an alias so that typing perl invokes your own new Perl.
- Verify by typing perl -V that your own new Perl gets started.
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