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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 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 "ExtU-til::MakeMaker" "ExtUtil::MakeMaker"
       til::MakeMaker" causing the problem, the most likely cause is an incomplete understanding of Sun Stu-dio Studio
       dio 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.



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