1If you read this file _as_is_, just ignore the funny characters you 2see. It is written in the POD format (see pod/perlpod.pod) which is 3specifically designed to be readable as is. 4 5=head1 NAME 6 7perllinux - Perl version 5 on Linux systems 8 9=head1 DESCRIPTION 10 11This document describes various features of Linux that will affect how Perl 12version 5 (hereafter just Perl) is compiled and/or runs. 13 14=head2 Experimental Support for Sun Studio Compilers for Linux OS 15 16Sun Microsystems has released a port of their Sun Studio compilers for 17Linux. As of November 2005, only an alpha version has been released. 18Until a release of these compilers is made, support for compiling Perl with 19these compiler experimental. 20 21Also, some special instructions for building Perl with Sun Studio on Linux. 22Following the normal C<Configure>, you have to run make as follows: 23 24 LDLOADLIBS=-lc make 25 26C<LDLOADLIBS> is an environment variable used by the linker to link modules 27C</ext> modules to glibc. Currently, that environment variable is not getting 28populated by a combination of C<Config> entries and C<ExtUtil::MakeMaker>. 29While there may be a bug somewhere in Perl's configuration or 30C<ExtUtil::MakeMaker> causing the problem, the most likely cause is an 31incomplete understanding of Sun Studio by this author. Further investigation 32is needed to get this working better. 33 34=head1 AUTHOR 35 36Steve Peters <steve@fisharerojo.org> 37 38Please report any errors, updates, or suggestions to F<perlbug@perl.org>. 39 40