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9 perlplan9 - Plan 9-specific documentation for Perl
14 Plan 9 Perl. As such, it is not intended to be a replacement
15 for the rest of the Perl 5 documentation (which is both
21 =head2 Invoking Perl
23 Perl is invoked from the command line as described in
24 L<perl>. Most perl scripts, however, do have a first line
25 such as "#!/usr/local/bin/perl". This is known as a shebang
27 the perl interpreter. In Plan 9 Perl this statement should be
28 "#!/bin/perl" if you wish to be able to directly invoke the
30 Alternatively, you may invoke perl with the command "Perl"
31 instead of "perl". This will produce Acme-friendly error
37 Perl. These you won't need to be worried about.
39 =head2 What's in Plan 9 Perl
41 Although Plan 9 Perl currently only provides static
46 =head2 What's not in Plan 9 Perl
51 =head2 Perl5 Functions not currently supported in Plan 9 Perl
70 =head2 Signals in Plan 9 Perl
72 For compatibility with perl scripts written for the Unix
73 environment, Plan 9 Perl uses the POSIX signal emulation
82 =head1 COMPILING AND INSTALLING PERL ON PLAN 9
84 WELCOME to Plan 9 Perl, brave soul!
86 This is a preliminary alpha version of Plan 9 Perl. Still to be
87 implemented are MakeMaker and DynaLoader. Many perl commands are
92 1. Create the source directories and libraries for perl by running the
95 files into /sys/src/cmd/perl. After running setup.rc you may delete
97 been installed in /sys/src/cmd/perl. If you plan on installing perl
101 software, from /sys/src/cmd/perl/5.00301 (adjust version
106 If you wish to install perl versions for all architectures (68020,
111 3. Wait. The build process will take a *long* time because perl
115 =head2 Installing Perl Documentation on Plan 9
117 This perl distribution comes with a tremendous amount of
119 Plan 9, from /sys/src/cmd/perl/5.00301 (adjust version appropriately)
126 man perl
140 This document was revised 09-October-1996 for Perl 5.003_7.