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authorDan Hale <danhale@us.ibm.com>2000-08-25 06:58:06 -0400
committerJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>2000-08-25 18:27:17 +0000
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AIX 4.3.3 has SOCKS in libc with a differently named init routine,
the problem reported in Subject: [ID 20000825.007] Building stable 5.6.0 on AIX 4.3.3 using SOCKS Message-Id: <85256946.005238A3.00@d54mta02.raleigh.ibm.com> p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6816
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@@ -763,7 +763,7 @@ extension modules or external libraries may not work. This
configuration exists to allow these issues to be worked on.
This option requires the 'sfio' package to have been built and installed.
-A (fairly old) version of sfio is in CPAN.
+The latest sfio is available from http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/sfio/
You select this option by
@@ -780,9 +780,6 @@ Configure should detect this problem and warn you about problems with
_exit vs. exit. If you have this problem, the fix is to go back to
your sfio sources and correct iffe's guess about atexit.
-There also might be a more recent release of Sfio that fixes your
-problem.
-
=item 2.
Normal stdio IO, but with all IO going through calls to the PerlIO
@@ -801,6 +798,13 @@ detect sfio, then this will be the default suggested by Configure.
=back
+=head2 SOCKS
+
+Perl can be configured to be 'socksified', that is, to use the SOCKS
+TCP/IP proxy protocol library. SOCKS is used to give applications
+access to transport layer network proxies. Perl supports only SOCKS
+Version 5. You can find more about SOCKS from http://www.socks.nec.com/
+
=head2 Dynamic Loading
By default, Configure will compile perl to use dynamic loading if