[inseparable changes from patch from perl5.003_19 to perl5.003_20]

 BUILD PROCESS

Subject: Make Configure default to the first domain in /etc/resolv.conf
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: Configure

Subject: Start all helper scripts with $startsh
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: Configure

Subject: Support libperl.so under FreeBSD
Date: Sun, 5 Jan 1997 22:41:49 +0100
From: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>
Files: Configure Makefile.SH
Msg-ID: <Mutt.19970105224149.roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit b126116e5ae3d57fa007f8a42fd506805b35163b)

 CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES

Subject: Rescind named closures
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: Makefile.SH op.c perly.c perly.c.diff perly.y pp_hot.c

Subject: Fix: empty @_ when calling empty-proto subs without parens
Date: Sat, 04 Jan 1997 10:29:04 +0000
From: Graham Barr <bodg@tiuk.ti.com>
Files: perly.c perly.y

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit 3112f5de73952f91aa4e8005d9852dfddbcf0402)

 CORE PORTABILITY

Subject: Configure/perl5/Compartmented Mode Workstation (fwd)
Date: Mon, 06 Jan 1997 13:15:38 -0500 (EST)
From: Andy Dougherty <doughera@fractal.phys.lafayette.edu>
Files: Configure hints/dec_osf.sh

    private-msgid: <Pine.SOL.3.95.970106131505.1662C-100000@fractal.lafayette.ed

Subject: Remove obsolete file "dl_os2.xs".
From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
Files: MANIFEST

 DOCUMENTATION

Subject: tiny doc patches
Date: Sat, 04 Jan 1997 11:12:13 -0500
From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
Files: pod/perlapio.pod pod/perlnews.pod pod/perltoc.pod
Msg-ID: <23338.852394333@eeyore.ibcinc.com>

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit b681178584626ba3718f1279845fd452317134c1)

Subject: doc patch for defined on perlfunc.pod
Date: 04 Jan 1997 21:28:30 -0500
From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
Files: pod/perlfunc.pod
Msg-ID: <pz91686ek1.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com>

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit 38e3adfd2e3d40b46e465482945c4f3de4bb50ef)

Subject: doc patch: perldsc
Date: 04 Jan 1997 21:25:58 -0500
From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
Files: pod/perldsc.pod pod/perltoc.pod
Msg-ID: <pzafqo6eo9.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com>

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit 4d42f92e5bf79556508016b7af91233b12e526eb)

Subject: scalar caller doc fix
Date: Mon, 06 Jan 1997 22:34:20 -0500
From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
Files: pod/perlfunc.pod
Msg-ID: <18245.852608060@eeyore.ibcinc.com>

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit 218104faecb0ec19e0f4f89e084959e757a5230f)

Subject: Misc perlfunc updates
From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@mox.perl.com>
Files: pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perltoc.pod

 LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS

Subject: sigaction() problems
Date: Mon, 06 Jan 1997 15:42:04 -0500
From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
Files: ext/POSIX/POSIX.pm ext/POSIX/POSIX.pod
Msg-ID: <12808.852583324@eeyore.ibcinc.com>

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit 84e96f2bcc509ba2fb5d2c9608a30cc3cfdea41a)

Subject: Fix importation of FileHandle methods; fix POSIX docs
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: ext/POSIX/POSIX.pm ext/POSIX/POSIX.pod lib/FileHandle.pm

Subject: Patch: make hints files warn about db-recno failures
Date: Sun, 5 Jan 1997 12:34:25 +0100
From: Dominic Dunlop <domo@slipper.ip.lu>
Files: MANIFEST hints/aux.sh hints/broken-db.msg hints/freebsd.sh

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit 692df45da95e2b7d14c4560347ef4555bb40b621)

 OTHER CORE CHANGES

Subject: Fix C< sub foo (&@); sub bar (&); foo {}, bar {}, bar {} >
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: perly.c perly.c.diff perly.y

Subject: plug for safe/opcode leaks
Date: Tue, 07 Jan 1997 17:20:46 -0500
From: Doug MacEachern <dougm@osf.org>
Files: op.c
Msg-ID: <199701072220.RAA02117@postman.osf.org>

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit 5cbfc2849d37f748a8facbcbf1c889c575943488)

Subject: Fix Dynaloader failures with DProf
Date: Mon, 06 Jan 1997 12:18:46 -0500
From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
Files: pp_hot.c

    private-msgid: <199701061718.MAA26909@aatma.engin.umich.edu>

 TESTS

Subject: New test: comp/proto.t
Date: Mon, 06 Jan 1997 09:13:03 +0000
From: Graham Barr <bodg@tiuk.ti.com>
Files: MANIFEST t/comp/proto.t

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit 8c1635e65dc1b3900503d444e985e3f0e5601454)

1 files changed, 23 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/Configure b/Configure
index 464e54cb9e..9211439ce2 100755
--- a/Configure
+++ b/Configure
@@ -958,7 +958,11 @@ silent=''
 extractsh=''
 override=''
 knowitall=''
+
 rm -f optdef.sh
+cat >optdef.sh <<EOS
+$startsh
+EOS
 
 : option parsing
 while test $# -gt 0; do
@@ -1192,6 +1196,7 @@ esac"
 
 : now set up to do reads with possible shell escape and default assignment
 cat <<EOSC >myread
+$startsh
 xxxm=\$dflt
 $myecho
 ans='!'
@@ -1770,7 +1775,7 @@ EOM
 		ultrix) osname=ultrix
 			osvers="$3"
 			;;
-		osf1)	case "$5" in
+		osf1|mls+)	case "$5" in
 				alpha)
 					osname=dec_osf
 					osvers=`echo "$3" | sed 's/^[vt]//'`
@@ -2117,7 +2122,10 @@ chmod +x filexp
 $eunicefix filexp
 
 : now set up to get a file name
-cat <<'EOSC' >getfile
+cat <<EOS >getfile
+$startsh
+EOS
+cat <<'EOSC' >>getfile
 tilde=''
 fullpath=''
 already=''
@@ -2516,7 +2524,10 @@ else
 fi
 
 : set up the script used to warn in case of inconsistency
-cat <<'EOSC' >whoa
+cat <<EOS >whoa
+$startsh
+EOS
+cat <<'EOSC' >>whoa
 dflt=y
 echo " "
 echo "*** WHOA THERE!!! ***" >&4
@@ -4679,6 +4690,9 @@ if "$useshrplib"; then
 	solaris|netbsd)
 		xxx="-R $shrpdir"
 		;;
+	freebsd)
+		xxx="-Wl,-R,$shrpdir"
+		;;
 	linux|irix*)
 		xxx="-Wl,-rpath,$shrpdir"
 		;;
@@ -5134,11 +5148,11 @@ case "$myhostname" in
 				: Why was there an Egrep here, when Sed works?
 				: Look for either a search or a domain directive.
 				dflt=.`$sed -n -e 's/	/ /g' \
-				  -e 's/^search.* \([^ ]*\) *$/\1/p' $tans \
+				  -e 's/^search  *\([^ ]*\).*/\1/p' $tans \
 				  | ./tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]' 2>/dev/null`
 				case "$dflt" in
 				.) dflt=.`$sed -n -e 's/	/ /g' \
-				     -e 's/^domain.* \([^ ]*\) *$/\1/p' $tans \
+				     -e 's/^domain  *\([^ ]*\).*/\1/p' $tans \
 				     | ./tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]' 2>/dev/null`
 					;;
 				esac
@@ -6400,7 +6414,9 @@ main()
 }
 EOCP
 	if $cc $ccflags $ldflags try.c -o try >/dev/null 2>&1; then
-		echo "$startsh" >mtry
+		cat <<EOS >mtry
+$startsh
+EOS
 		echo "./try >try.out 2>try.ret 3>try.err || exit 4" >>mtry
 		chmod +x mtry
 		./mtry >/dev/null 2>&1
@@ -6436,7 +6452,7 @@ EOCP
 		*) echo "However, your read() returns '$status' on EOF??";;
 		esac
 		val="$define"
-		if test "$status" -eq "$rd_nodata"; then
+		if test "$status" = "$rd_nodata"; then
 			echo "WARNING: you can't distinguish between EOF and no data!"
 			val="$undef"
 		fi