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| author | Dan Hale <danhale@us.ibm.com> | 2000-08-25 06:58:06 -0400 |
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| committer | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2000-08-25 18:27:17 +0000 |
| commit | 1b9c9cf5b717295753f7f7adb1f9d3d1cbaf5308 (patch) | |
| tree | a906ab9e337ec28f96959d9763e4ae2abf50e3c7 /INSTALL | |
| parent | cb3d9de5ab53f2c2103b956bb8c972762aabbaa3 (diff) | |
| download | perl-1b9c9cf5b717295753f7f7adb1f9d3d1cbaf5308.tar.gz | |
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
Diffstat (limited to 'INSTALL')
| -rw-r--r-- | INSTALL | 12 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions
@@ -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 |