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Perl 5 version 18.2 documentation
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  - Experimental Support for Sun Studio Compilers for Linux OS
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# NAME

perllinux - 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 compilers for Linux. As of November 2005, only an alpha version has been released. Until a release of these compilers is made, support for compiling Perl with these compiler 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 combination 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 <steve@fisharerojo.org>

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

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