NAME
    README.linux - Perl version 5 on Linux systems

DESCRIPTION
    This document describes various features of Linux that will affect how
    Perl version 5 (hereafter just Perl) is compiled and/or runs.

  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 "Configure", you have to run make as
    follows:

        LDLOADLIBS=-lc make

    "LDLOADLIBS" is an environment variable used by the linker to link
    modules "/ext" modules to glibc. Currently, that environment variable is
    not getting populated by a combination of "Config" entries and
    "ExtUtil::MakeMaker". While there may be a bug somewhere in Perl's
    configuration or "ExtUtil::MakeMaker" 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.

AUTHOR
    Steve Peters <steve@fisharerojo.org>

    Please report any errors, updates, or suggestions to perlbug@perl.org.

