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| author | Dominic Dunlop <domo@computer.org> | 1998-07-13 16:55:09 +0100 |
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| committer | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 1998-07-14 03:50:18 +0000 |
| commit | 1a838eccfe2f5af1b34f52ee81cdf35ae24f7bdb (patch) | |
| tree | 3afe9cab7c5f8ab3b5a1f897ecb66e04822b7bd9 | |
| parent | 24c8842dc1ce52ec3fe4a2c9d8fcc13d500f30b6 (diff) | |
| download | perl-1a838eccfe2f5af1b34f52ee81cdf35ae24f7bdb.tar.gz | |
Not OK: perl 5.00473 on powerpc-machten 4.1 [PATCH 5.004_73]
Message-Id: <199807131455.PAA23621@ppp52.vo.lu>
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@1472
| -rw-r--r-- | hints/machten.sh | 17 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/hints/machten.sh b/hints/machten.sh index 75cbc0d750..8e30108f20 100644 --- a/hints/machten.sh +++ b/hints/machten.sh @@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ # Martijn Koster <m.koster@webcrawler.com> # Richard Yeh <rcyeh@cco.caltech.edu> # +# Completely disable SysV IPC pending more complete support from Tenon +# -- Dominic Dunlop <domo@computer.org> 980712 # Use vfork and perl's malloc by default # -- Dominic Dunlop <domo@computer.org> 980630 # Raise perl's stack size again; cut down reg_infty; document @@ -136,8 +138,12 @@ alignbytes=8 # friends. Use setjmp and friends instead. expr "$osvers" \< "4.0.3" > /dev/null && d_sigsetjmp='undef' -# semctl(.., .., IPC_STATUS, ..) hangs system: say we don't have semctl() -d_semctl='undef' +# System V IPC support in MachTen 4.1 is incomplete (missing msg function +# prototypes, no ftok()), buggy (semctl(.., .., IPC_STATUS, ..) hangs +# system), and undocumented. Claim it's not there until things improve. +d_msg=${d_msg:-undef} +d_sem=${d_sem:-undef} +d_shm=${d_shm:-undef} # Get rid of some extra libs which it takes Configure a tediously # long time never to find on MachTen @@ -164,11 +170,12 @@ cat <<EOM >&4 During Configure, you may see the message *** WHOA THERE!!! *** - The recommended value for \$d_semctl on this machine was "undef"! + The recommended value for \$d_msg on this machine was "undef"! Keep the recommended value? [y] -Select the default answer: semctl() is buggy, and perl should be built -without it. +as well as similar messages concerning \$d_sem and \$d_shm. Select the +default answers: MachTen 4.1 appears to provide System V IPC support, +but it is incomplete and buggy: perl should be built without it. Similarly, when you see |