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authorTom Horsley <tom@amber.ssd.hcsc.com>1997-01-19 15:14:04 -0500
committerChip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>1997-01-25 15:58:00 +1200
commitd83aa01ca04619f3fd5729b7be297347260be5d6 (patch)
treed928e2e807b7fb129cc5874b50bde623a0605992
parent2755218d63804b65dd0ae9c88156d3ebc30a2e1a (diff)
downloadperl-d83aa01ca04619f3fd5729b7be297347260be5d6.tar.gz
patch for hints/cxux.sh perl5.003_22
p5p-msgid: <9701192014.AA05722@amber.ssd.hcsc.com>
-rw-r--r--hints/cxux.sh20
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/hints/cxux.sh b/hints/cxux.sh
index 66608decef..f2e8c17c10 100644
--- a/hints/cxux.sh
+++ b/hints/cxux.sh
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-# Hints for the CX/UX 7.1 operating system running on Harris NightHawk
-# machines. written by Tom.Horsley@mail.hcsc.com
+# Hints for the CX/UX 7.1 operating system running on Concurrent (formerly
+# Harris) NightHawk machines. written by Tom.Horsley@mail.ccur.com
#
-# This config is setup for dynamic linking and the Harris C compiler.
+# This config is setup for dynamic linking and the Concurrent C compiler.
# Check some things and print warnings if this isn't going to work...
#
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ case `uname -r` in
echo '';;
esac
-# Internally at Harris, we use a source management tool which winds up
+# Internally at Concurrent, we use a source management tool which winds up
# giving us read-only copies of source trees that are mostly symbolic links.
# That upsets the perl build process when it tries to edit opcode.h and
# embed.h or touch perly.c or perly.h, so turn those files into "real" files
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ libswanted=`echo ' '$libswanted' ' | sed -e 's/ malloc / /'`
#
glibpth="/usr/sde/elf/usr/lib $glibpth"
-# Need to use Harris cc for most of these options to be meaningful (if you
+# Need to use Concurrent cc for most of these options to be meaningful (if you
# want to get this to work with gcc, you're on your own :-). Passing
# -Bexport to the linker when linking perl is important because it leaves
# the interpreter internal symbols visible to the shared libs that will be
@@ -93,9 +93,11 @@ usemymalloc='n'
cat <<'EOM'
-You will get a failure on lib/posix.t test 16 because ungetc() on
-stdin does not work if no characters have been read from stdin.
-If you type a character at the terminal where you are running
-the tests, you can fool it into thinking it worked.
+WARNING: If you are using ksh to run the Configure script, you may find it
+failing in mysterious ways (such as failing to find library routines which
+are known to exist). Configure seems to push ksh beyond its limits
+sometimes. Try using env to strip unnecessary things out of the environment
+and run Configure with /sbin/sh. That sometimes seems to produce more
+accurate results.
EOM