[inseparable changes from patch from perl5.003_26 to perl5.003_27]

 BUILD PROCESS

Subject: Fix eval "" in Configure
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 13:09:53 -0500
From: John L. Allen <allen@gateway.grumman.com>
Files: Configure

    Subject: Re: Configure problem on IRIX - me dumb
    
    p5p-msgid: <9702141809.AA17001@gateway.grumman.com>

Subject: Don't link with -lsfio if sfio is not requested
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: Configure

Subject: perl5.003_26 Configure change "win" for AIX 4
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 13:59:02 -0600 (CST)
From: Tim Mooney <mooney@dogbert.cc.ndsu.NoDak.edu>
Files: Configure

    p5p-msgid: <Pine.OSF.3.95.970214135751.32654A-100000@dogbert.cc.ndsu.NoDak.edu>
    private-msgid: <Pine.OSF.3.95.970214135751.32654A-100000@dogbert.cc.ndsu.NoD

 CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES

Subject: Better looks_like_number() function [sv.c]
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 18:08:52 +0100
From: Gisle Aas <aas@bergen.sn.no>
Files: sv.c
Msg-ID: <199702141708.SAA17546@bergen.sn.no>

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit 8dbaa58ee2aba7cc22d84199a674c58bbf108b46)

Subject: Remove redundant functions UNIVERSAL::{class,is_instance}
Date: 14 Feb 1997 15:52:21 +0000
From: Gisle Aas <aas@bergen.sn.no>
Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlobj.pod t/op/universal.t universal.c
Msg-ID: <hwwsbpeq2.fsf@bergen.sn.no>

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit 77bb9b23081b62119e8fbe9f5655b8802e4537ae)

Subject: Allow C<setpgrp $$>
Date: 16 Feb 1997 23:19:12 -0500
From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
Files: pp_sys.c
Msg-ID: <pzraigyshr.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com>

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit 3d2573a84a1aa655d5da58c57b3fc20e04d40f9f)

Subject: Fix syntax error on C<&$1>
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: toke.c

Subject: Fix grep() with refs in array context
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: pp.c

 CORE PORTABILITY

Subject: Eliminate $^S; add C<use vmsish qw(status exit time)>
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 02:45:26 -0500 (EST)
From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
Files: MANIFEST gv.c lib/English.pm lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm lib/ExtUtils/Mksymlists.pm lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp mg.c op.c perl.c perl.h pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlmod.pod pod/perlvar.pod pp_ctl.c pp_sys.c utils/perldoc.PL vms/Makefile vms/config.vms vms/descrip.mms vms/ext/Stdio/Stdio.pm vms/ext/Stdio/Stdio.xs vms/ext/XSSymSet.pm vms/ext/vmsish.pm vms/vms.c vms/vmsish.h win32/makedef.pl

    private-msgid: <01IFI9CFKL0S004R2V@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>

 LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS

Subject: Remove Fatal.pm
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: MANIFEST lib/Fatal.pm pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlmod.pod pod/roffitall t/lib/fatal.t

Subject: Refresh MakeMaker to 5.40
From: Andy Dougherty <doughera@lafcol.lafayette.edu>
Files: lib/ExtUtils/Liblist.pm lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm lib/ExtUtils/Mksymlists.pm

 OTHER CORE CHANGES

Subject: Fix core dump when embedding
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: perl.c

Subject: Re: Fragile signals
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 01:44:39 -0500 (EST)
From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
Files: mg.c
Msg-ID: <199702130644.BAA07572@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit 09df8c7df7dfc9853902f1fdd8a6d95f53be66fc)

Subject: Make format strings correspond exactly to parameters
Date: 13 Feb 1997 17:24:31 -0500
From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
Files: doio.c ext/DB_File/DB_File.xs ext/Opcode/Opcode.xs gv.c op.c perl.c pp_ctl.c pp_sys.c regcomp.c toke.c
Msg-ID: <pz7mkc1h0g.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com>

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit bf81aadd817bdea29720b072eef945df2da8463b)

Subject: Don't try to attach 'o' magic to read-only values
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: sv.c

Subject: Fix carriage-return message
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: toke.c

Subject: In <=>, test for equality first
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: pp.c

Subject: Don't mark sv_{true,false} PADTMP
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: op.c

1 files changed, 29 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/Configure b/Configure
index c5fbe4e8c7..72c1a39d22 100755
--- a/Configure
+++ b/Configure
@@ -91,25 +91,39 @@ if test ! -t 0; then
 	exit 1
 fi
 
-: On HP-UX, large Configure scripts may exercise a bug in /bin/sh
-if test -f /hp-ux -a -f /bin/ksh; then
-	if (PATH=.; alias -x) >/dev/null 2>&1; then
-		: already under /bin/ksh
-	else
+: Test and see if we are running under ksh, either blatantly or in disguise.
+if (PATH=.; alias -x) >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+    : running under ksh.  Is this a good thing?
+    if test -d /usr/lpp -a -f /usr/bin/bsh -a -f /usr/bin/uname ; then
+        if test X`/usr/bin/uname -v` = X4 ; then
+            : on AIX 4, /bin/sh is really ksh, and it causes us problems.
+            : Avoid it
 		cat <<'EOM'
-(Feeding myself to ksh to avoid nasty sh bug in "here document" expansion.)
+(Feeding myself to /usr/bin/bsh to avoid AIX 4's /bin/sh.)
 EOM
 		unset ENV
-		exec /bin/ksh $0 "$@"
+            exec /usr/bin/bsh $0 "$@"
 	fi
-else
+    else
+        if test ! -f /hp-ux ; then
 	: Warn them if they use ksh on other systems
-	(PATH=.; alias -x) >/dev/null 2>&1 && \
 		cat <<EOM
 (I see you are using the Korn shell.  Some ksh's blow up on $me,
 especially on older exotic systems.  If yours does, try the Bourne 
 shell instead.)
 EOM
+        fi
+    fi
+else
+    : Not running under ksh.  Maybe we should be?
+    : On HP-UX, large Configure scripts may exercise a bug in /bin/sh
+    if test -f /hp-ux -a -f /bin/ksh; then
+        cat <<'EOM'
+(Feeding myself to ksh to avoid nasty sh bug in "here document" expansion.)
+EOM
+        unset ENV
+        exec /bin/ksh $0 "$@"
+    fi
 fi
 
 : Configure runs within the UU subdirectory
@@ -1220,7 +1234,7 @@ while expr "X\$ans" : "X!" >/dev/null; do
 	read answ
 	set x \$xxxm
 	shift
-	aok=''; eval "ans=\"\$answ\"" && aok=y
+	aok=''; eval ans="\\"\$answ\\"" && aok=y
 	case  "\$answ" in
 	"\$ans")
 		case "\$ans" in
@@ -7350,6 +7364,11 @@ $define)
 	y|Y) ;;
 	*)	echo "Ok, avoiding sfio this time.  I'll use stdio instead."
 		val="$undef"
+		: Remove sfio from list of libraries to use
+		set `echo X $libs | $sed -e 's/-lsfio / /' -e 's/-lsfio$//'`
+		shift
+		libs="$*"
+		echo "libs = $libs" >&4
 		;;
 	esac
 	;;