Perl Installation and configuration on linux/unix/solaris

Step 1) Setup environment vaiables (Using csh):

# setenv PATH \
/usr/sfw/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin
# setenv PATH \
${PATH}:/usr/ccs/bin:/usr/sbin:/opt/sfw/bin:.
# setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH \
/usr/sfw/lib:/usr/local/lib:/opt/sfw/lib
Step 2) Configure and install perl (Install location will be /usr/local/perl587)

# gtar xfz perl-5.8.7.tar.gz
# cd perl-5.8.7
# rm -f config.sh Policy.sh
# sh Configure -Dcc='gcc -B/usr/ccs/bin/' \
-Dprefix=/usr/local/perl587 -des
# make
# make test
# make install
# cd ..
# cp /usr/local/perl587/bin/perl /usr/local/bin

Step 3) Check perl has been install and is in your path.

# rehash
# which perl
/usr/local/bin/perl
# perl -V
Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 8 subversion 7) configuration:
Platform:
osname=solaris, osvers=2.10, archname=sun4-solaris
... a lot more stuff....
Step 4) Install some basic perl modules (down load from: http://search.cpan.org/)

# gtar xfz HTML-Tagset-3.04.tar.gz
# cd HTML-Tagset-3.04
# perl Makefile.PL
# make
# make test
# make install
# cd ..

# gtar xfz HTML-Parser-3.46.tar.gz
# cd HTML-Parser-3.46
# perl Makefile.PL
# make
# make test
# make install
# cd ..

# gtar xfz URI-1.35.tar.gz
# cd URI-1.35
# perl Makefile.PL
# make
# make test
# make install
# cd ..

# gtar xfz Compress-Zlib-1.41.tar.gz
# cd Compress-Zlib-1.41
# perl Makefile.PL
# make
# make test
# make install
# cd ..

# gtar xfz libwww-perl-5.803.tar.gz
# cd libwww-perl-5.803
# perl Makefile.PL -n
# make
# make test
# make install
# cd ..
Step 5) Set up mod_perl (Need to extract apache files first, since it updates them):

# gtar xfz apache_1.3.34.tar.gz
# gtar xfz mod_perl-1.29.tar.gz
# cd mod_perl-1.29
# perl Makefile.PL \
APACHE_SRC=../apache_1.3.34/src \
DO_HTTPD=1 USE_APACI=1 \
PREP_HTTPD=1 EVERYTHING=1
# make
# make install
Step 6) Previous step did not compile apache. I prefer it that way:

# ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/Apache/1334 \
--enable-module=info \
--enable-module=most --enable-shared=max \
--enable-module=status \
--enable-module=so \
--activate-module=src/modules/perl/libperl.a

# make
# make install
Step 7) We will pause here, since if you try to start the apache server you will get an error if this is on a SPARC platform.
# /usr/local/Apache/1334/bin/apachectl start

Syntax error on line 210 of /usr/local/Apache/1334/conf/httpd.conf:
Cannot load /usr/local/Apache/1334/libexec/mod_negotiation.so into server: ld.so.1: httpd: fatal: relocation error: file /usr/local/Apache/1334/libexec/mod_negotiation.so: symbol __floatdisf: referenced symbol not found
/usr/local/Apache/1334/bin/apachectl start: httpd could not be started


Step 8) SKIP to "step 9" if you are on a x86 platform.

# cd src/modules/proxy
# ld -G -o mod_proxy.so mod_proxy.lo \
`gcc -print-libgcc-file-name`
# cd ../standard
# ld -G -o mod_negotiation.so mod_negotiation.lo \
`gcc -print-libgcc-file-name`
# cd ../../..
# make
# make install