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authorH.Merijn Brand <h.m.brand@xs4all.nl>2015-03-07 11:59:58 +0100
committerH.Merijn Brand <h.m.brand@xs4all.nl>2015-03-07 11:59:58 +0100
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Update Synology information
DSM-5.1 has perl-5.18.4 installed (or available through ipkg) anyway, awesome to see it being more recent than 5.8.4
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@@ -16,24 +16,24 @@ businesses and homes.
The NAS systems are equipped with Synology Disk Storage Manager (DSM),
which is a trimmed-down Linux system enhanced with several tools for
managing the NAS. There are several flavours of hardware: Marvell
-Armada (ARMv5te, ARMv7l), Intel Atom (i686, x86_64), Freescale QorIQ
+Armada (ARMv5tel, ARMv7l), Intel Atom (i686, x86_64), Freescale QorIQ
(PPC), and more. For a full list see the
L<Synology FAQ|http://forum.synology.com/wiki/index.php/What_kind_of_CPU_does_my_NAS_have>.
Since it is based on Linux, the NAS can run many popular Linux
software packages, including Perl. In fact, Synology provides a
-ready-to-install package for Perl, albeit version 5.8.6 which should
-be considered very old.
+ready-to-install package for Perl, depending on the version of DSM
+the installed perl ranges from 5.8.6 on DSM-4.3 to 5.18.4 on DSM-5.1.
There is an active user community that provides many software packages
for the Synology DSM systems; at the time of writing this document
-they provide Perl version 5.8.8.
+they provide Perl version 5.18.4.
This document describes various features of Synology DSM operating
system that will affect how Perl 5 (hereafter just Perl) is
configured, compiled and/or runs. It has been compiled and verified by
Johan Vromans for the Synology DS413 (QorIQ), with feedback from
-H.Merijn Brand (DS213, ARMv5te).
+H.Merijn Brand (DS213, ARMv5tel).
=head2 Setting up the build environment
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ Execute the following commands:
ln -s libm.so.6 libm.so
ln -s libcrypt.so.1 libcrypt.so
ln -s libdl.so.2 libdl.so
- cd /opt/powerpc-linux-gnuspe/lib
+ cd /opt/powerpc-linux-gnuspe/lib (or /opt/arm-none-linux-gnueabi/lib)
ln -s /lib/libdl.so.2 libdl.so
=back
@@ -249,14 +249,11 @@ the programs are run.
=head1 REVISION
-November 2013, for Synology DSM 4.3.3810.
+March 2015, for Synology DSM 5.1.5022.
=head1 AUTHOR
Johan Vromans <jvromans@squirrel.nl>
-
-=head1 THANKS
-
H. Merijn Brand <h.m.brand@xs4all.nl>
=cut