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Asked: 2026-05-27T14:44:43+00:00

I am newbie to perl cross compilation. I’m trying to install perl from source

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I am newbie to perl cross compilation.
I’m trying to install perl from source as given in http://www.perl.org.
Commands followed are ./Configure, Make, Make test.

To find the path for specific installation, the CLI “perl -V” shows error as follows.

# ./perl -V
Can't locate Config.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.9 .).
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted.

I think i have done some mistake in path inclusions.
Please let me know the reason and solution for successfull cross compilation.

Thanks in advance.

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  1. Editorial Team

    It’s probably possible to cross-compile Perl (building on Linux and targeting for BSD), but there’s not much point in doing so. NetBSD is as capable as Linux of building Perl locally, and that’s almost certainly what you should do.

    You can build it from source, following the installation instructions, or better yet you can install a binary package, since somebody else has already done the work of building Perl from source for you.

    Unless you have a very specific requirement for an old version, you should install the most recent production version, which I believe is 5.14.2.

    You mentioned in a comment that when you build Perl from source on your target BSD machine, Make test had 2 failures. You had a 99.86% success rate. Surely that’s good enough — and you’re not likely to do any better by cross-compiling. You might want to look into those failures and the LD_LIBRARY_PATH issue (I don’t know what it should be set to for NetBSD), but those issues aren’t so serious that you should give up and use a radically different approach.

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