_______________________________________________________

To build the IO::Compress::Zlib add '/opt/armeb/bin' to the path..

Hint: `export PERLDOC_PAGER="less -+C -E -R"` makes perldoc more useful.

  # ipkg install unslung-feeds 

  # ipkg update

  # ipkg install perl

(note that you need to get perl from the unslung native feed)

Special note

Perl is now available via the normal package ipkg process:

  # ipkg update
  # ipkg install perl561-shared

Unless you want to compile from scratch then the rest of this HowTo is not for you.

    Note (*): is seems that the old ipkg-utils from unslung 1.x are not able to handle 
              the 10MB ipk file. Users of older unslung versions can use the tgz file 
              instead: http://www.familie-roellig.de/public/nslu2/unslung/perl-5.8.6-bin-static.tgz

This has been fixed.

    3) ipkg install perl586-static (*)
    4) ipkg install perl561-shared (works since unslung 3.17, built with Info.NativeNSLU2Toolchain and http://www.familie-roellig.de/public/nslu2/perl/mk_nslu_perl561-shared.sh mk_nslu_perl561-shared.sh)

   Note (*): the old ipkg-utils from unslung 1.x are not able to handle the 10MB
             ipk file. Users of older unslung version need to use the tgz file 
             at: http://www.familie-roellig.de/public/nslu2/unslung/perl-5.8.6-bin-static.tgz

    4) ipkg install perl586-shared (works since unslung 3.17, built with Info.NativeNSLU2Toolchain and http://www.familie-roellig.de/public/nslu2/perl/mk_nslu_perl561-shared.sh mk_nslu_perl561-shared.sh)

    4) ipkg install perl586-shared (works since unslung 3.17, just use Info.NativeNSLU2Toolchain and http://www.familie-roellig.de/public/nslu2/perl/mk_nslu_perl561-shared.sh mk_nslu_perl561-shared.sh)

    4) ipkg install perl586-shared (works since unslung 3.17, just use NativeNSLU2Toolchain? and http://www.familie-roellig.de/public/nslu2/perl/mk_nslu_perl561-shared.sh mk_nslu_perl561-shared.sh)

       wget http://www.familie-roellig.de/public/nslu2/perl/mk_nslu_perl561-static.sh  

       wget http://www.familie-roellig.de/public/nslu2/perl/mk_nslu_perl568-static.sh

   * if everything is ok, perl gets configured, build, tested and installed under /opt/bin and /opt/lib

    3) ipkg install perl586-static
    4) ipkg install perl586-shared (different build instructions than above, to be published)

Provide Perl 5.6.1/5.8.6 binaries + perl modules on the NSLU2.

       wget http://www.familie-roellig.de/public/nslu2/perl/mk_nslu_perl561.sh  
       and/or
       wget http://www.familie-roellig.de/public/nslu2/perl/mk_nslu_perl568.sh

       or
       sh mk_nslu_perl586.sh
   * wait ~90..120 minutes
   * if everything is ok, perl gets configured, build, tested and installed under /opt/perl

    select one of these options to install perl
    1) ipkg install perl
    2) ipkg install perl561-static (same as 1, just alias)
    3) ipkg install perl586-shared
    4) ipkg install perl586-static

This has been fixed.

Rene.

 # ipkg update

 # ln -s /opt/bin/perl5.6.1 /opt/bin/perl
 # ln -s /opt/bin/c2ph /opt/bin/pstruct

You need to cd / first. Otherwise, you get this:

 @@# ipkg update
 Downloading http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/unslung/unstable/Packages
 Updated list of available packages in /usr/lib/ipkg/lists/unslung
 Downloading http://www.familie-roellig.de/public/nslu2/unslung/Packages
 Updated list of available packages in /usr/lib/ipkg/lists/r2004roellig
 # ipkg install perl
 Installing perl (5.6.1-1) to root... 
 Downloading http://www.familie-roellig.de/public/nslu2/unslung/perl_5.6.1-1_armeb.ipk
 ipkg: Cannot link from ./opt/bin/perl to './opt/bin/perl5.6.1': No such file or directory
 ipkg: Cannot link from ./opt/bin/pstruct to './opt/bin/c2ph': No such file or directory
 Configuring perl
 #

@@ You can fix this with:

@@ # ln -s /opt/bin/perl5.6.1 /opt/bin/perl

 # ln -s /opt/bin/c2ph /opt/bin/pstruct@@

It would be good to fix the install script to not assume that . == /

--tlhackque

GNU Make 3.80\\

Coreutils 5.2.1 (split, comm and sort)\\

1) Make sure you have the necessary tools installed: make, awk and coreutils. Otherwise Configure will fail.

      ipkg install make

on a separate ipkg feed directory (see http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nslu2-linux/message/2759).

   To install those tools add this line to your /etc/ipkg.conf file:
      src unstable http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/unslung/unstable

   Run:
      ipkg update
      ipkg install coreutils
      ipkg install gawk

For easy installation I have made perl binaries available as ipk packet. As perl must be compiled at the NSLU natively, it is not part of the unslung build procedure. Thus I have published it on a separate ipkg feed directory (see http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nslu2-linux/message/2759)

#target perl_ipk

[#target binary] Binary installation (ipk):

    src r2004roellig http://www.familie-roellig.de/public/nslu2/unslung

Note: the formerly provided tar.gz archive I have removed from my server.

   * wait ~90 minutes

For easy installation I have made perl binaries available as ipk packet. Just add following line to your /etc/ipkg.conf:

    src r2004roellig http://www.familie-roellig.de/public/nslu2/unslung/

To install perl just run:

    ipkg update
    ipkg install perl

Note: the formerly provided tar.gz archive has been removed from my server.

   * wait ~80 minutes

Perl binaries have been compiled to reside in /opt/bin and /opt/lib. Currently 2 options are available:

   * ipkg binary perl installation
       wget http://www.familie-roellig.de/public/nslu2/perl/perl_5.6.1-1_armeb.ipk
       ipkg install perl_5.6.1-1_armeb.ipk

   * tar ball installation
       wget http://www.familie-roellig.de/public/nslu2/perl/perl_5.6.1-1-21Dec2004.tar.gz
       tar -xvzf nslu2-perl-5.6.1-sta -C /

Maybe the perl ipk can be downloaded from the ipk server soon :)

   * wait ~70 minutes

       wget http://www.familie-roellig.de/public/nslu2/perl/mk_nslu_perl561.sh

       wget http://www.familie-roellig.de/public/nslu2/perl/awk.tgz

       wget http://www.familie-roellig.de/public/nslu2/perl/subset_coreutils.tgz

1) Make sure awk, comm, split and sort are installed at your box, otherwise Configure will fail.

   * sort utility needs to be found first in your search path - busybox sort will cause issues in perl build process

Utilities split, comm and sort from coreutils-5.2.1\\

   * make sure the sort utility is found first in your search path - busybox sort will cause issues in perl build process

Provide Perl 5.6.1 binaries + perl modules on the NSLU2.

Contact: Rene Roellig, r2004roellig@yahoo.de

NativeFloatingPointToolchain with flawless floating point support

   I don't support compilation instructions here. Just download from my page.

       wget http://de.geocities.com/r2004roellig/public/NSLU2/perl/awk.tgz
       tar -xvzf awk.tgz
       wget http://de.geocities.com/r2004roellig/public/NSLU2/perl/subset_coreutils.tgz
       tar -xvzf subset_coreutils.tgz

       wget http://de.geocities.com/r2004roellig/public/NSLU2/perl/mk_nslu_perl561.tgz
       tar -xvzf mk_nslu_perl561.tgz

3) Build perl

       sh mk_nslu_perl561.sh

Thanks to Ivan Van Laningham for hosting the binaries.

   * execute
       wget ftp://www.pauahtun.org/pub/nslu2/nslu2-perl-5.6.1-static.tar.gz
       tar -xvzf nslu2-perl-5.6.1-static.tgz -C /

Prerequisites for installation from source:

Steps for installation from source:

1) Make sure awk, comm and split are installed at your box, otherwise Configure will fail.

   I don't support comilation instructions here. Just download from my page.
   * execute
      wget http://de.geocities.com/r2004roellig/public/NSLU2/perl/awk.tgz
      tar -xvzf awk.tgz
      wget http://de.geocities.com/r2004roellig/public/NSLU2/perl/subset_coreutils.tgz
      tar -xvzf subset_coreutils.tgz

   * execute
      wget http://de.geocities.com/r2004roellig/public/NSLU2/perl/mk_nslu_perl561.tgz
      tar -xvzf mk_nslu_perl561.tgz

   * execute
      sh mk_nslu_perl561.sh

Binaries:

Thanks to

Perl binaries have been compiled to reside in /opt/local/perl

   wget nslu2-perl-5.6.1-static.tar.gz
   * 

Contact: Rene Roellig, r2004roellig@yahoo.de

Awk 3.1.4
Utilities split and comm from coreutils-5.2.1
NativeFloatingPointToolchain with flawless floating point support \\

1) Make sure awk, comm and split are installed at your box.

   * wget http://de.geocities.com/r2004roellig/public/NSLU2/perl/awk.tgz
   * tar -xvzf awk.tgz
   * wget http://de.geocities.com/r2004roellig/public/NSLU2/perl/subset_coreutils.tgz
   * tar -xvzf subset_coreutils.tgz
   * put the binaries to a place which is in your path

2) Get build script

   * wget http://de.geocities.com/r2004roellig/public/NSLU2/perl/mk_nslu_perl561.tgz
   * tar -xvzf mk_nslu_perl561.tgz
   * review content of script, change if necessary

3) Build perl, just execute

   * sh mk_nslu_perl561.sh
   * wait ~30 minutes
   * if everything is ok, perl gets configured, build, tested and installed under /opt/local/perl

Utilities split and comm from coreutils-5.2.1 - (http://de.geocities.com/r2004roellig/public/NSLU2/utils/subset_coreutils.tgz subset_coreutils.tgz)\\

Binaries:

1)

   #!/bin/sh
   wget http://www.cpan.org/src/5.0/perl-5.6.1.tar.gz
  tar -xvzf perl-5.6.1.tar.gz
  cd perl-5.6.1

sh Configure -Dprefix=/opt/local/perl -des

2. Makefiles may contain bogus dependency lines, fix it

sed s/"<built-in>"//g makefile > m.tmp mv m.tmp makefile sed s/"<command line>"//g makefile > m.tmp mv m.tmp makefile

cd x2p sed s/"<built-in>"//g makefile > m.tmp mv m.tmp makefile sed s/"<command line>"//g makefile > m.tmp mv m.tmp makefile cd ..

2. Patch makefile to add math library for linking

sed s/"libs ="/"libs = -lm"/g makefile >m.tmp mv m.tmp makefile

2. perl looks for errno.h only in /usr/include
3. native toolchain is on different location

cd ext cd Errno cp Errno_pm.PL Errno_pm.PL.bak sed s#/usr/include/errno.h#/opt/crosstool/nslu-native/static/armv5b-softfloat-linux/gcc-3.4.2-glibc-2.3.2/armv5b-softfloat-linux/include/errno.h#g Errno_pm.PL >tmp mv tmp Errno_pm.PL cd .. cd ..

2. build perl

make

make test

make install

Awk 3.1.4 (http://de.geocities.com/r2004roellig/public/NSLU2/utils/awk.tgz awk.tgz)
Utilities split and comm from coreutils-5.2.1 - (http://de.geocities.com/r2004roellig/public/NSLU2/utils/subset_coreutils.tgz subset_coreutils.tgz)\\\\

Awk 3.1.4 (http://de.geocities.com/r2004roellig/public/NSLU2/utils/awk.tgz awk.tgz) Utilities split and comm from coreutils-5.2.1 - (http://de.geocities.com/r2004roellig/public/NSLU2/utils/subset_coreutils.tgz subset_coreutils.tgz)\\

Provide Perl 5.6.1 binaries + all perl modules on the NSLU2.

NativeFloatingPointToolchain with flawless floating point support

GNU \\

GNU Make 3.80 BuildGNUMakeOnYourNSLU2Box
Busybox version 1.00 (potentially optional). Use ipkg to install.
Bash. Use ipkg to install.

Utilities split? and comm? from coreutils-5.2.1
NativeFloatingPointToolchain with flawless floating point support

Goal:

Compile Perl 5.6.1 binaries + all perl modules on the NSLU2.

Prerequisites:

Installation of HomePage Unslung?.
GNU Make 3.80 BuildGNUMakeOnYourNSLU2Box Busybox version 1.00 (potentially optional). Use ipkg to install. Bash. Use ipkg to install. Awk? - download NSLU binary here. Utilities split? and comm? from coreutils-x.x.x. NativeFloatingPointToolchain with flawless floating point support.

Steps:

1) Get To

- run mk_nslu_perl561.sh sh mk_nslu_perl561.sh

- if everything is ok, perl gets configured, build, tested and installed under /opt/local/perl

2. Binaries =========== tool chain: nslu-native-gcc3.4.2-glibc-2.3.2.tgz perl: nslu2-perl-5.6.1-static.tar.gz