Perl on 860

[dadabhoy]

Does anyone know if any of the 2 following perl packages will work on the C860 ?

http://humphrey.applitec.com/zaurus/feed/p...5.6.1-7_arm.ipk
]http://www.cpan.org/ports/sharp/Perl_5.8.0_arm.ipk[/url]

[newkirk]

Does anyone know if any of the 2 following perl packages will work on the C860 ?

http://humphrey.applitec.com/zaurus/feed/p...5.6.1-7_arm.ipkhttp://www.cpan.org/ports/sharp/Perl_5.8.0_arm.ipk

I don\'t know about the 5.8 port at CPAN (will give it a look though) but I\'ve installed and used the 5.6.1-7 version (in the ZUG feed) on both 5600 and 860 with no problems.

It\'s great to have perl in my handheld - I\'m a linux sysadmin and I write little perl quickies 24/7 it seems - next I\'m going to see if I can get apache working with perl cgi on the 860.

j

[vanstrien]

Perl 5.8 works well.  In fact I\'ve taken it and make a cramfs image of it (since it was so big).  That means I can\'t update any modules, but I can use what I have without taking up all the space.

Michael

[dadabhoy]

Thanks newkirk, I installed 5.6.1-7 and it seems to work with simple code I have written  but gives the following warning before running the program

perl: warning :Setting locale failed.
perl: warning :Please check that you locale settings:
        LANGUAGE = (unset)
        LC_ALL = (unset)
        LANG = \"en\"
     are supported and installed on you system.
perl : warning : Failing back to the standard local (\"C\").

[thomas]

To get rid of the warnings, I added the following to /home/root/.profile:

LANG=\"en_US\"
LC_ALL=\"C\"

And to /home/zaurus/.profile:

export LANG=\"C\"

Ciao,
Thomas

[BalroG]

Hi vanstrien

is your image downloadable somewhere? thanks!

[datajerk]

The 5.8.0 is too big.

I recommend you get perl from here:  http://packages.debian.org/stable

The other perls listed http://www.killefiz.de/zaurus are complete but lack many interesting modules and building them may be a pain.  The 5.6.1 distro from http://packages.debian.org/stable has a complete set of modules as well.  Just take the arm .deb files extract with ar x and tar up with tgz, install and go.  

I have already done this for the following and posted here:  http://www.sense.net/zc/perl/

Base code.  Install all three.

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perl-base_5.6.1-8.7_arm.ipk       08-Jun-2004 09:19   532k  

perl-modules_5.6.1-8.7_all.ipk    08-Jun-2004 09:19   1.2M    

perl_5.6.1-8.7_arm.ipk            08-Jun-2004 09:21   1.1M

Perl/Tk.  You will need Xqt installed (.8 not .9) as well if you want to develop Perl/Tk GUI scripts.  

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perl-tk_800.024-1_arm.ipk         08-Jun-2004 09:21   1.9M
E.g. rolodex example application in Xqt:
[img]http://sense.net/zc/scrn005.jpg\" border=\"0\" class=\"linked-image\" /]

I needed both for my perl-based IPMI code to run from my Z.

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libdigest-md5-perl_2.13-2_arm.ipk 08-Jun-2004 09:18    21k  

libstorable-perl_1.0.14-1_arm.ipk 08-Jun-2004 09:18    51k

I am a big fan of WWW automation with perl LWP, I\'ll probably convert that next.

Cacko 1.21a/b w/ Xqt on my c860.

[BalroG]

WOW! Cool, thanks datajerk!!!