How to install Perl-5.8.9 on Ubuntu - perl

Question

I have a legacy Perl 5.8.9 project which I need to run in a docker environment. Since I new it worked on Ubuntu I tried compiling it on an Ubuntu 16.1 and
FROM ubuntu
RUN apt-get update \
&& apt-get install -y curl \
&& apt-get install -y wget \
&& apt-get install -y perlbrew
NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION="18.04.3 LTS (Bionic Beaver)"
Images
since I couldn't find the version on perlbrew, I tried compiling from perl-5.8.9.tar.bz2 which I downloaded
Compilation failed having something to do with miniperl.
perlio.c:515:2: note: in expansion of macro 'PerlLIO_write'
PerlLIO_write(dbg, s, len);
^~~~~~~~~~~~~
perlio.c: In function 'PerlIO_parse_layers':
perlio.c:995:11: warning: this statement may fall through [-Wimplicit-
fallthrough=]
if (*e++) {
^
perlio.c:1001:4: note: here
case '\0':
^~~~
In file included from perl.h:3169:0,
from perlio.c:57:
perlio.c: In function 'S_more_refcounted_fds':
iperlsys.h:762:39: warning: ignoring return value of 'write', declared with attribute warn_unused_result [-Wunused-result]
#define PerlLIO_write(fd, buf, count) write((fd), (buf), (count))
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
perlio.c:2307:2: note: in expansion of macro 'PerlLIO_write'
PerlLIO_write(PerlIO_fileno(Perl_error_log),
^~~~~~~~~~~~~
`sh cflags "optimize='-O2'" perlapi.o` perlapi.c
CCCMD = cc -DPERL_CORE -c -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe - I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -std=c89 - O2 -Wall -ansi -pedantic -W -Wextra -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wendif-labels -Wc++-compat -DPERL_GCC_PEDANTIC
`sh cflags "optimize='-O2'" numeric.o` numeric.c
CCCMD = cc -DPERL_CORE -c -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe - I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -std=c89 - O2 -Wall -ansi -pedantic -W -Wextra -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wendif- labels -Wc++-compat -DPERL_GCC_PEDANTIC
`sh cflags "optimize='-O2'" mathoms.o` mathoms.c
CCCMD = cc -DPERL_CORE -c -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe - I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -std=c89 - O2 -Wall -ansi -pedantic -W -Wextra -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wendif- labels -Wc++-compat -DPERL_GCC_PEDANTIC
`sh cflags "optimize='-O2'" locale.o` locale.c
CCCMD = cc -DPERL_CORE -c -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe - I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -std=c89 - O2 -Wall -ansi -pedantic -W -Wextra -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wendif- labels -Wc++-compat -DPERL_GCC_PEDANTIC
`sh cflags "optimize='-O2'" pp_pack.o` pp_pack.c
CCCMD = cc -DPERL_CORE -c -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe - I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -std=c89 - O2 -Wall -ansi -pedantic -W -Wextra -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wendif- labels -Wc++-compat -DPERL_GCC_PEDANTIC
pp_pack.c: In function 'S_pack_rec':
pp_pack.c:2716:7: warning: variable 'was_utf8' set but not used [- Wunused-but-set-variable]
U32 was_utf8;
^~~~~~~~
`sh cflags "optimize='-O2'" pp_sort.o` pp_sort.c
CCCMD = cc -DPERL_CORE -c -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe - I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -std=c89 - O2 -Wall -ansi -pedantic -W -Wextra -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wendif- labels -Wc++-compat -DPERL_GCC_PEDANTIC
`sh cflags "optimize='-O2'" opmini.o` -DPERL_EXTERNAL_GLOB opmini.c
CCCMD = cc -DPERL_CORE -c -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -vI/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -std=c89 - O2 -Wall -ansi -pedantic -W -Wextra -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wendif- labels -Wc++-compat -DPERL_GCC_PEDANTIC
opmini.c: In function 'Perl_list':
opmini.c:977:5: warning: this statement may fall through [-Wimplicit- fallthrough=]
if (!o->op_next && cUNOPo->op_first->op_type == OP_FLOP) {
^
opmini.c:981:5: note: here
case OP_LIST:
^~~~
opmini.c: In function 'Perl_mod':
opmini.c:1277:11: warning: this statement may fall through [-Wimplicit-v
fallthrough=]
PL_hints |= HINT_BLOCK_SCOPE;
opmini.c:1278:5: note: here
case OP_SASSIGN:
^~~~
opmini.c: In function 'Perl_fold_constants':
opmini.c:2119:40: warning: argument 'o' might be clobbered by 'longjmp' or 'vfork' [-Wclobbered]
Perl_fold_constants(pTHX_ register OP *o)
^
cc -L/usr/local/lib -o miniperl \
`echo gv.o toke.o perly.o op.o pad.o regcomp.o dump.o util.o mg.o reentr.o hv.o av.o perl.o run.o pp_hot.o sv.o pp.o scope.o pp_ctl.o pp_sys.o doop.o doio.o regexec.o utf8.o taint.o deb.o universal.o xsutils.o globals.o perlio.o perlapi.o numeric.o mathoms.o locale.o pp_pack.o pp_sort.o | sed 's/ op.o / /'` \
miniperlmain.o opmini.o
pp.o: In function `Perl_pp_pow':
pp.c:(.text+0x2d84): undefined reference to `pow'
pp.o: In function `Perl_pp_modulo':
pp.c:(.text+0x3b80): undefined reference to `fmod'
pp.o: In function `Perl_pp_atan2':
pp.c:(.text+0x8884): undefined reference to `atan2'
pp.o: In function `Perl_pp_sin':
pp.c:(.text+0x8978): undefined reference to `sqrt'
pp.c:(.text+0x8a23): undefined reference to `log'
pp.c:(.text+0x8a4e): undefined reference to `cos'
pp.c:(.text+0x8afb): undefined reference to `sin'
pp.c:(.text+0x8b13): undefined reference to `exp'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
makefile:313: recipe for target 'miniperl' failed
make: *** [miniperl] Error 1
Is there a ready docker image?
If not how do I install on ubuntu or preferably on alpine or another light container.

Answer 1

Run the following commands in the terminal one after another.
sudo apt-get install perlbrew
perlbrew available
perlbrew install perl-5.8.9
If it fails to download, create a directory as shown below
mkdir -p perl5/perlbrew/dists
Try again the following command
perlbrew install perl-5.8.9
For more info , please refer this:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/425427/how-to-install-perl-php-mysql-and-ruby-packages-on-ubuntu

Answer 2

In case you don't want to use perlbrew, here is another way-
From https://stackoverflow.com/a/44441545/2001559
In your docker file -
RUN apt-get install -y gcc
ADD http://www.cpan.org/src/5.0/perl-5.8.9.tar.gz /shared
RUN tar -xzf perl-5.8.9.tar.gz
WORKDIR /shared/perl-5.8.9
RUN ./Configure -des -Dprefix=/opt/perl-5.8.9/localperl
RUN make
RUN make test
RUN make install

Answer 3

perl-5.8.0
I solved the issue when created 2 directories:
mkdir -p /home/<username>/perl5/perlbrew/dists/
mkdir -p /home/<username>/perl5/perlbrew/build/perl-5.8.0
Gave rwx-rwx-rwx (to avoid any problems with the access):
chmod -Rf 0777 /home/<username>/perl5/perlbrew/dists
chmod -Rf 0777 /home/<username>/perl5/perlbrew/build/perl-5.8.0