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compiling perl for PPC32 and || PPC64

by james28909 (Deacon)
on Aug 10, 2014 at 22:41 UTC ( [id://1096936]=perlquestion: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??

james28909 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

i have an odd ball question. i am trying to get into power PC. is there a good resource i can read on and learn about compiling perl to PPC? ive read a few threads here and there about people trouble shooting it, but i cannot seem to find anything that documents it. any help would be very much gracias :)

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Re: compiling perl for PPC32 and || PPC64
by syphilis (Archbishop) on Aug 11, 2014 at 00:43 UTC
    I got rid of the mac OS that came with my PPC box and replaced it with Debian Wheezy.
    After Wheezy had been installed, there were a few things I had to apt-get in order to acquire the full toolchain needed to build perl.
    Once that was all done, building perl was quite trivial - just run Configure with whatever args you choose, followed by 'make', 'make test' and 'make install'.

    I didn't even try to build perl on that machine while the mac system was in place - so I probably have no experience that can help you in that regard.

    Cheers,
    Rob
Re: compiling perl for PPC32 and || PPC64
by Anonymous Monk on Aug 10, 2014 at 23:24 UTC
Re: compiling perl for PPC32 and || PPC64
by jfroebe (Parson) on Aug 11, 2014 at 15:49 UTC

    Which operating system are you using for your powerpc box? Linux? *BSD? AIX?

    Jason L. Froebe

    Blog, Tech Blog

      i will be trying it out on linux. this will be my first ever endeavour in reguards to powerpc and perl on a different OS than windows.
        If you haven't installed the OS yet, you'll find the Deb Wheezy images for PowerPC at http://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/debian-installer/
        I don't know what sort of mileage the other Linux flavours offer wrt PowerPC - I guess we might find out something more about that if you install a different one ;-)
        I'm interested to hear how it goes for you.

        Cheers,
        Rob

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