1WELCOME to Plan 9 Perl, brave soul! 2 This is a preliminary alpha version of Plan 9 Perl. Still to be implemented are MakeMaker and DynaLoader. Many perl commands are missing or currently behave in an inscrutable manner. These gaps will, with perserverance and a modicum of luck, be remedied in the near future.To install this software: 3 4 1. Create the source directories and libraries for perl by running the plan9/setup.rc command (i.e., located in the plan9 subdirectory). Note: the setup routine assumes that you haven't dearchived these files into /sys/src/cmd/perl. After running setup.rc you may delete the copy of the source you originally detarred, as source code has now been installed in /sys/src/cmd/perl. If you plan on installing perl binaries for all architectures, run "setup.rc -a". 5After 6 2. Making sure that you have adequate privileges to build system software, from /sys/src/cmd/perl/5.00301 run: 7mk install 8 If you wish to install perl versions for all architectures (68020, mips, sparc and 386) run: 9mk installall 10 11 3. Wait. The build process will take a *long* time because perl bootstraps itself. A 75MHz Pentium, 16MB RAM machine takes roughly 30 minutes to build the distribution from scratch. 12 13INSTALLING DOCUMENTATION 14This perl distribution comes with a tremendous amount of documentation. To add these to the built-in manuals that come with Plan 9, from /sys/src/cmd/perl/5.00301 run: 15mk man 16To begin your reading, start with: 17man perl 18This is a good introduction and will direct you towards other man pages that may interest you. For information specific to Plan 9 Perl, try: 19man perlplan9 20 21(Note: "mk man" may produce some extraneous noise. Fear not.) 22 23Direct questions, comments, and the unlikely bug report (ahem) direct comments toward: 24lutherh@stratcom.com 25 26Luther Huffman 27Strategic Computer Solutions, Inc. 28