The Perl module packages add useful objects to the Perl language. Modules utilized by packages throughout BLFS are listed here along with their dependencies.
Install Perl modules by running the following commands:
perl Makefile.PL &&
make &&
make install
Below are modules that require some modifications to standard instructions or certain parameters in order to install successfully.
Gtk-Perl-0.7009:
perl Makefile.PL --without-guessing &&
make &&
make install
There is an alternate way of installing the modules using Perl's built-in install command. The command automatically downloads the source from the CPAN archive, extracts it, runs the commands mentioned above, and removes the build tree. Though note that it is not very LFS-like thing to do and as such is not supported.
Start the perl shell with the commands:
perl -MCPAN -e shell
Each module may now be installed from this shell with the command:
install <moduleName>
For additional commands and help, type help.