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+<tool_dependency>
+    <package name="perl" version="5.18.1">
+        <install version="1.0">
+            <actions>
+
+                <!-- install perl -->
+                <action type="download_by_url">http://www.cpan.org/src/5.0/perl-5.18.1.tar.gz</action>
+                <action type="shell_command">./Configure -des -Dprefix=$INSTALL_DIR</action>
+                <action type="make_install" />
+
+                <action type="download_file">http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/A/AP/APEIRON/local-lib-1.008009.tar.gz</action>
+                <action type="shell_command">tar xfvz local-lib-1.008009.tar.gz</action>
+                <action type="change_directory">local-lib-1.008009</action>
+                <!-- TODO: Here we need to use the new installed perl binary -->
+                <action type="shell_command">$INSTALL_DIR/bin/perl Makefile.PL --bootstrap=$INSTALL_DIR/local-lib/ --no-manpages</action>
+                <action type="shell_command">make install</action>
+                <action type="shell_command">eval $($INSTALL_DIR/bin/perl -I$INSTALL_DIR/local-lib/perl5 -Mlocal::lib=$INSTALL_DIR/local-lib)</action>
+
+                <!-- install cpanminus into our new perl environment -->
+                <action type="download_file">https://raw.github.com/miyagawa/cpanminus/c0c88f71118ecec334d62ba280e883933e7a6d39/cpanm</action>
+                <!-- prepanding means that the new install perl binary will be used after the pipe -->
+                <action type="shell_command">export PERL5LIB=$INSTALL_DIR/lib/perl5/:$PERL5LIB ; export PATH=$INSTALL_DIR/bin/:$PATH ; cat cpanm | perl - App::cpanminus</action>
+
+                <action type="set_environment">
+                    <environment_variable name="PATH" action="prepend_to">$INSTALL_DIR/bin</environment_variable>
+                    <environment_variable name="PERL5LIB" action="prepend_to">$INSTALL_DIR/lib/perl5</environment_variable>
+                    <environment_variable name="PERL_ROOT_DIR" action="set_to">$INSTALL_DIR</environment_variable>
+                    <environment_variable name="PERL_LOCALLIB_DIR" action="set_to">$INSTALL_DIR/local-lib</environment_variable>
+                </action>
+            </actions>
+        </install>
+        <readme>
+            Perl 5 is a highly capable, feature-rich programming language with over 25 years of development.
+            http://www.perl.org/
+            
+            This repository contains local-lib and cpanm in addition.
+            It is recommended to use something like "cpanm --local-lib=$PERL_LOCALLIB_DIR XML::Parser" to install additional perl modules.
+        </readme>
+    </package>
+</tool_dependency>