NAME 

README.vmesa - building and installing Perl for VM/ESA.

SYNOPSIS 

This document will help you Configure, build, test and install Perl on VM/ESA.

DESCRIPTION 

This is a fully ported perl for VM/ESA 2.3.0. It may work on other versions, but that's the one we've tested it on.

If you've downloaded the binary distribution, it needs to be installed below /usr/local. Source code distributions have an automated ``make install'' step that means you do not need to extract the source code below /usr/local (though that is where it will be installed by default). You may need to worry about the networking configuration files discussed in the last bullet below.

Unpacking Perl Distribution on VM/ESA

To extract an ASCII tar archive on VM/ESA, try this:
   pax -o to=IBM-1047,from=ISO8859-1 -r < latest.tar

Setup Perl and utilities on VM/ESA

GNU make for VM/ESA, which may be required for the build of perl, is available from: