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[editor's note: this commit combines approximate 4 months of furious
releases of Andy Dougherty and Larry Wall - see pod/perlhist.pod for
details.  Andy notes that;
 
Alas neither my "Irwin AccuTrack" nor my DC 600A quarter-inch cartridge 
backup tapes from that era seem to be readable anymore.  I guess 13 years 
exceeds the shelf life for that backup technology :-(.
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-From: doughera@lafcol.lafayette.edu (Andy Dougherty)
-Subject: RE: First stab at Configure Support for perl5alpha
-Date: Fri Apr 29 16:43:18 EDT 1994
-
-I have incorporated various fixes/suggestions into the Configure
-support for perl5alpha8.  The main changes are the following:
-   -Better incorporation of extensions in Makefile.SH.
-   -miniperlmain.c no longer requires dynamic loading.
-   -perl can use dynamic loading if available, but extensions can
-    also be compiled in statically, if desired.
-   -perlmain.c now built from miniperlmain.c by writemain.SH,
-    which is called in the makefile.  Only the requested extensions
-    are compiled in.
-   -dynamic loading broken up into dl_sunos.c, dl_next.c, dl_hpux.c.
-    Configure will look for dl_$osname.c, where osname is determined
-    at the same time as hints are suggested.
-   -Configure support added for sdbm library (ext/dbm/sdbm/libsdbm.a).
-    This still needs testing.
-   -Tests for extensions now check in %Config to see if that extension
-    is available.  Note, however, the sdbm is not an *optional*
-    extension, so it will fail (and make test will complain)
-    if sdbm is not installed.  Thus perl programmers can safely assume
-    that at least sdbm is available.
-   -configpm now correctly handles comments at the end of config.sh
-    (which Configure places there if a hints file tries to propagate
-    unknown variables, such as libswanted).
-   -makedepend now works in UU/ subdirectory (so it doesn't delete
-    miniperlmain.c on systems with 14-character file name limits).
-   -ext/typemap:  My compiler couldn't handle some of the more complex
-    casts, so an intermediate unsigned long variable has been introduced.
-    I should probably re-do this in terms of a CRIPPLED_CC macro in
-    XSUB.h, but it's not clear to me that it's worth it.
-   -some new or updated hints files.
-   -miscellaneous bug fixes.
-
-Problems remaining:
-
-   -POSIX module is still under construction.
-   -Dynamic loading of extensions works on SunOS 4.1.3, but it
-    might need modifications to work with other systems.
-   -It is possible to do mixed dynamic/static loading, that is,
-    load commonly used modules statically and other modules
-    dynamically.  Currently, this must be done by hand by setting
-    extobj in makefile and hand-editing perlmain.c.
-    The newXSUB line for the static module must be moved into
-    the #ifdef USE_DYNAMIC_LOADING section in perlmain.c, and the
-    module .o file must be added to the extobj= line in makefile.
-   -lib/[sn]dbm.t tests create a new file with a hard-wired set of
-    flags.  These should be replaced with O_CREAT | O_RDWR, which
-    will be available from POSIX.pm, once it is up and running.
-    For now, you might have to change the 0x202 to 0x102 (or perhaps
-    0x402) in lib/[sn]dbm.t for the tests to succeed.
-   -I have applied several suggested fixes for use on the DEC alpha,
-    but I haven't been able to keep up with all of them.
-   -Though CRIPPLED_CC works, it might be desireable to have Configure
-    try to figure it out.
-    
-To apply: 	Obtain a clean copy of perl5alpha8
-		cd <your perl5alpha8 directory>
-		patch -p1 < <this patch>
-
-As before, I am willing to continue to coordinate and develop the
-Configure support.
-
-Thanks to the following for various and often quite substantial 
-patches and suggestions:
-	Peter Galbavy <peter@wonderland.org>
-	Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
-	Andreas Koenig <koen1830@w203zrz.zrz.tu-berlin.de>
-        Raphael Manfredi <ram@acri.fr>
-	David Meyer <dmm0t@rincewind.mech.virginia.edu>
-	Jeff Okamoto <okamoto@hpcc101.corp.hp.com>
-	John Stoffel <john@WPI.EDU>
-	Larry Wall (lwall@netlabs.com>
-
-    Andy Dougherty		doughera@lafcol.lafayette.edu
-    Dept. of Physics 		Phone: (610) 250-5212
-    Lafayette College		FAX:   (610) 250-9263
-    Easton, PA  18042-1782
-
-=================================================================
-
-From: doughera@lafcol.lafayette.edu (Andy Dougherty)
-Subject: First stab at Configure Support for perl5alpha
-Date: Mon Apr  4 15:13:50 EDT 1994
-
-I've updated Configure to support perl5alpha7.  Consider this a
-first attempt.  I am willing to continue to develop and coordinate 
-improvement on this.  I've included the metaconfig units (in the U/
-directory) that I developed for this.  New units, or fixes to these,
-are welcome.
-
-Here's what should work:
-   -You should be able to Configure and run miniperl on any platform
-    that supported perl4.
-
-   -Configure should be more amenable to hints.  In particular,
-    you can remove directories from the library search path with
-    a hints file.  See hints/solaris_2_3.sh for an example.
-
-Here's what needs improvement:
-   -Including dynamic loading on works on SunOS 4.1.x, as far as I
-    know, but nowhere else.  I don't understand enough about what's
-    going on to put in stub functions for those who might want/have to
-    use another dynamic linking package or static linking.  Configure
-    assumes you want to use the dl.c source file if you try to use
-    dynamic linking.  Still, you should be able to get miniperl up and
-    running.
-
-   -I haven't made any changes to installperl.
-
-   -Makefile.SH (and hence makefile) should arrange to pick up the
-    appropriate .pm modules from the extensions directory and install
-    them.  I haven't done anything about that.
-
-   -I didn't incorporate any of the Configure changes into the
-    extension files, partly because I couldn't get past the dynamic
-    loading problem on my main machine, but mostly because I haven't
-    had the time yet.  That's near the top of the ToDo list.
-
-   -I made no changes to the x2p/ subdirectory, though some might
-    be probably needed.
-
-   -Lots of the hints files are probably now out of date.
-    The solaris_2_[23].sh ones are completely untested guesses.
-    Fixed/updated version are welcome.
-
-   -The defaults are to use perl's malloc and compile with
-    -g -DDEBUGGING.  I was unable to get perl to pass all tests
-    with anything else.  Part of the problem may be the stupid stub
-    functions I inserted in dump.c and sv.c, but there may be other
-    malloc/free problems elsewhere.
-
-   -Whatever else I broke to get this to work.
-
-Thanks to 
-    Tim Bunce <timbo@ig.co.uk>, 
-    Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@pilgrim.umass.edu>, and
-    Bill Hertzing <wgh@fns.com> 
-for various suggestions and help.  Thanks to Raphael Manfredi for
-much work on dist-3.0.
-
-    Andy Dougherty		doughera@lafcol.lafayette.edu
-    Dept. of Physics 		Phone: (610) 250-5212
-    Lafayette College		FAX:   (610) 250-9263
-    Easton, PA  18042-1782