STANDARD INSTALLATION

Installing the package involves these steps:

  1. perl Makefile.PL
  2. make
  3. make test

If everything succeeded assure to have write permissions for you Perl Library directories. Then:

4. make install

"perl Makefile.PL" creates a Makefile for your system. "make" builds the package, "make test" checks if the module really works at your system and "make install" installs it to your system. This includes 3 tools:

map - maps characters from and to unicode encoding mkmapfile - creates binary mapfiles from textual mapfiles mkCSGB2312 - creates a GB2312 mapfile

Typically you will not use the latter two tools.

INDIVIDUAL INSTALLATION

If you need store the package differently from the default values you can do so by adding a PREFIX parameter to the first step mentioned above. Like:

perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=/usr/local/

"make test" FAILED

Oops? Why? Please let me know.