Ubuntu's Perl

Mario Guerra guerramarioalberto at gmail.com
Mon Aug 15 15:22:16 UTC 2005


2005/8/15, Anthony Gardner <cyclewood_ltd at yahoo.co.uk>:
> This is quite advanced, I think, so I'll keep it quite
> high level.
> 
> The Perl that comes with hoary is compiled with cc.
> Now, I have had to install a fresh version of Perl
> under /opt (but that's not important) because I wanted
> to install Apache/mod_perl and associated libs and
> Apache (downloaded from apache.org) needs to be
> compiled with gcc. thus, it needs Perl to be compiled
> with gcc.
> 

In Ubuntu and other distributions, cc and gcc are just the same thing
as this shows:

mguerra at olga:~$ cc -v
Leyendo especificaciones de /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/3.3.5/specs
Configurado con: ../src/configure -v
--enable-languages=c,c++,java,f77,pascal,objc,ada,treelang
--prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info
--with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/3.3 --enable-shared
--with-system-zlib --enable-nls --without-included-gettext
--enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-debug
--enable-java-gc=boehm --enable-java-awt=xlib --enable-objc-gc
i486-linux
Modelo de hilos: posix
gcc versión 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-8ubuntu2) <-------------------------



> Thirdly, why doess Ubuntu spread Perl all over the
> place? It's in /usr, /usr/local, /etc (I think) and
> probably even under /var.
> 

The package gcc has the binaries in the usual places and the
documentation in /usr/share/man and /usr/share/doc.  Perhaps you are
talking about the system library, libc6?.

-- 
Mario A. Guerra
San José, Costa RIca




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