For a full build of perl, use the perl.src2pkg script by running: src2pkg perl.src2pkg You'll probably want to add at least the extra modules found in this same directory, for a full system. If you want a minimal version of perl, use the perl-lite.src2pkg script. perl-lite is a minimal installation of perl. The basic list of included files is adapted from the files in the debian perl-base package. We add a couple of the utilites such as pod2man, pod2html and others which are commonly used when compiling software packages. A full installation of perl requires more than 30MB of space. The perl-lite installation as used here occupies slightly more than 2MB ( or even less if upx-compression is used on the binaries). The list could be refined to include either more or less files. The subdirectory micro-perl contains more info on creating an even smaller installation. If you find that something is missing or is unneeded in these packages please send an e-mail to amigo@ibiblio.org and include the word perl-lite in the subject line.