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NAME
       README.linux - Perl version 5 on Linux systems

DESCRIPTION
       This document describes various features of Linux that
       will affect how Perl version 5 (hereafter just Perl) is
       compiled and/or runs.

       Experimental Support for Sun Studio Compilers for Linux OS

       Sun Microsystems has released a port of their Sun Studio
       compiliers for Linux.  As of November 2005, only an alpha
       version has been released.  Until a release of these com-
       pilers is made, support for compiling Perl with these com-
       piler experimental.

       Also, some special instructions for building Perl with Sun
       Studio on Linux.  Following the normal "Configure", you
       have to run make as follows:

           LDLOADLIBS=-lc make

       "LDLOADLIBS" is an environment variable used by the linker
       to link modules "/ext" modules to glibc.  Currently, that
       environment variable is not getting populated by a combi-
       nation of "Config" entries and "ExtUtil::MakeMaker".
       While there may be a bug somewhere in Perl's configuration
       or "ExtUtil::MakeMaker" causing the problem, the most
       likely cause is an incomplete understanding of Sun Studio
       by this author.  Further investigation is needed to get
       this working better.

AUTHOR
       Steve Peters 

       Please report any errors, updates, or suggestions to perl-
       bug@perl.org.



perl v5.8.8                 2006-01-07               PERLLINUX(1)