{stdenv, fetchurl}: stdenv.mkDerivation { name = "perl-5.10.0"; src = fetchurl { url = mirror://cpan/src/perl-5.10.0.tar.gz; sha256 = "0bivbz15x02m02gqs6hs77cgjr2msfrhnvp5xqk359jg6w6llill"; }; patches = [ # This patch does the following: # 1) Do use the PATH environment variable to find the `pwd' command. # By default, Perl will only look for it in /lib and /usr/lib. # !!! what are the security implications of this? # 2) Force the use of , not /usr/include/errno.h, on Linux # systems. (This actually appears to be due to a bug in Perl.) ./no-sys-dirs.patch ]; # Build a thread-safe Perl with a dynamic libperls.o. We need the # "installstyle" option to ensure that modules are put under # $out/lib/perl5 - this is the general default, but because $out # contains the string "perl", Configure would select $out/lib. configureFlags = '' -de -Dcc=gcc -Uinstallusrbinperl -Dinstallstyle=lib/perl5 -Duseshrplib ${if stdenv ? glibc then "-Dusethreads" else ""} ''; configureScript = "./Configure"; dontAddPrefix = true; preConfigure = '' configureFlags="$configureFlags -Dprefix=$out -Dman1dir=$out/share/man/man1 -Dman3dir=$out/share/man/man3" if test "$NIX_ENFORCE_PURITY" = "1"; then GLIBC=$(cat $NIX_GCC/nix-support/orig-libc) configureFlags="$configureFlags -Dlocincpth=$GLIBC/include -Dloclibpth=$GLIBC/lib" fi ''; preBuild = '' # Make Cwd work on NixOS (where we don't have a /bin/pwd). substituteInPlace lib/Cwd.pm --replace "'/bin/pwd'" "'$(type -tP pwd)'" ''; setupHook = ./setup-hook.sh; }