Subject: installing perl on "small" disk
To: None <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: henry nelson <netb@irm.nara.kindai.ac.jp>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 06/09/2003 10:26:54
I've been trying to unpack, compile and then install Perl-5.8.0 on a single
file system with just slightly more than 100MB of space.  It compiles out-
of-the box on NetBSD/sparc 1.5.3 (yippee!), but I don't see an easy way to
install it.  I tried deleting a few directories of OSes that didn't seem
related, but in the end things got so messed up I had to go back to Configure.
Interactively there is a question to install or not install the man pages,
and a question about what extensions to compile or not.  I plan to install
it on multiple machines on three different platforms, so I'd rather just
pass options directly to Configure.

Does anyone know offhand if there is some way to not install the man pages
and designate the desired extensions non-interactively, i.e., directly on
the `sh Configure` command line with "-des" tacked on the end?  TIA

(For interested people, the successful build was simply with "-Dcc=gcc
-Doptimize='-O2' -Uusemymalloc -des".)
henry nelson