If you read this file _as_is_, just ignore the funny characters you see. It is written in the POD format (see pod/perlpod.pod) which is specifically designed to be readable as is. =head1 NAME README.linux - Perl version 5 on Linux systems =head1 DESCRIPTION This document describes various features of Linux that will affect how Perl version 5 (hereafter just Perl) is compiled and/or runs. =head2 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 C, you have to run make as follows: LDLOADLIBS=-lc make C is an environment variable used by the linker to link modules C modules to glibc. Currently, that environment variable is not getting populated by a combination of C entries and C. While there may be a bug somewhere in Perl's configuration or C causing the problem, the most likely cause is an incomplete understanding of Sun Studio by this author. Further investigation is needed to get this working better. =head1 AUTHOR Steve Peters Please report any errors, updates, or suggestions to F.