[inseparable changes from patch from perl5.003_23 to perl5.003_24]perl-5.003_24

 CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES

Subject: glob defaults to $_
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 03:09:13 -0500
From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
Files: op.c opcode.pl pod/perlfunc.pod t/op/glob.t

    private-msgid: <199701270809.DAA00934@aatma.engin.umich.edu>

Subject: Re: an overloading bug 
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 19:07:45 -0500
From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
Files: pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pp_ctl.c

    private-msgid: <199701270007.TAA26525@aatma.engin.umich.edu>

 CORE PORTABILITY

Subject: Win32 port
From: Gary Ng <71564.1743@compuserve.com>
Files: MANIFEST win32/*

Subject: Amiga files
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 17:42:15 +0100
From: Norbert Pueschel <pueschel@imsdd.meb.uni-bonn.de>
Files: MANIFEST README.amiga hints/amigaos.sh

    private-msgid: <77724712@Armageddon.meb.uni-bonn.de>

 DOCUMENTATION

Subject: perldelta Fcntl enhancement
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 1997 17:05:34 +0200 (EET)
From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@cc.hut.fi>
Files: pod/perldelta.pod

    private-msgid: <199701251505.RAA22159@alpha.hut.fi>

Subject: Updates to perldelta re: Fcntl, DB_File, Net::Ping
From: Paul Marquess <pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk>
Files: pod/perldelta.pod

Subject: Document restrictions on gv_fetchmethod() and perl_call_sv()
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlguts.pod

Subject: perldiag.pod: No comma allowed after %s
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 1997 17:41:53 +0200 (EET)
From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <Jarkko.Hietaniemi@cc.hut.fi>
Files: pod/perldiag.pod

    private-msgid: <199701251541.RAA04120@alpha.hut.fi>

Subject: perlfunc.pod: localtime
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 1997 18:29:37 +0200 (EET)
From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@cc.hut.fi>
Files: pod/perlfunc.pod

    private-msgid: <199701251629.SAA08114@alpha.hut.fi>

Subject: perlfunc diff: gmtime
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 14:52:08 +0000
From: Peter Haworth <pmh@edison.ioppublishing.com>
Files: pod/perlfunc.pod

    private-msgid: <32EE1298.7B90@edison.ioppublishing.com>

Subject: Updates to guts
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 19:34:18 -0500 (EST)
From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
Files: pod/perlguts.pod

    private-msgid: <199701270034.TAA13177@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>

 TESTS

Subject: New test op/closure.t
From: Tom Phoenix <rootbeer@teleport.com>
Files: MANIFEST t/op/closure.t

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diff --git a/README.amiga b/README.amiga
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+If you read this file _as_is_, just ignore the funny characters you
+see. It is written in the POD format (see perlpod manpage) which is
+specially designed to be readable as is.
+
+=head1 NAME
+
+perlamiga - Perl under Amiga OS
+
+=head1 SYNOPSIS
+
+One can read this document in the following formats:
+
+	man perlamiga
+	multiview perlamiga.guide
+
+to list some (not all may be available simultaneously), or it may
+be read I<as is>: either as F<README.amiga>, or F<pod/perlamiga.pod>.
+
+=cut
+
+Contents
+ 
+ perlamiga - Perl under Amiga OS
+
+       NAME 
+       SYNOPSIS 
+       DESCRIPTION 
+         -  Prerequisites 
+         -  Starting Perl programs under AmigaOS
+       INSTALLATION 
+       Accessing documentation 
+         -  Manpages 
+         -  HTML 
+         -  GNU info files 
+         -  LaTeX docs 
+       BUILD 
+         -  Prerequisites 
+         -  Getting the perl source 
+         -  Application of the patches 
+         -  Making 
+         -  Testing 
+         -  Installing the built perl 
+       AUTHOR 
+       SEE ALSO 
+
+=head1 DESCRIPTION
+
+=head2 Prerequisites
+
+=over 6
+
+=item B<Unix emulation for AmigaOS: ixemul.library>
+
+You need the Unix emulation for AmigaOS, whose most important part is
+B<ixemul.library>. For a minimum setup, get the following archives from
+ftp://ftp.ninemoons.com/pub/ade/current or a mirror:
+
+ixemul-45.1-bin.lha
+ixemul-45.1-env-bin.lha
+pdksh-4.9-bin.lha
+ADE-misc-bin.lha
+
+Note that there might be newer versions available by the time you read
+this.
+
+Note also that this is a minimum setup; you might want to add other
+packages of B<ADE> (the I<Amiga Developers Environment>).
+
+=item B<Version of Amiga OS>
+
+You need at the very least AmigaOS version 2.0. Recommended is version 3.1.
+
+=back
+
+=head2 Starting Perl programs under AmigaOS
+
+Start your Perl program F<foo> with arguments C<arg1 arg2 arg3> the
+same way as on any other platform, by
+
+	perl foo arg1 arg2 arg3
+
+If you want to specify perl options C<-my_opts> to the perl itself (as
+opposed to to your program), use
+
+	perl -my_opts foo arg1 arg2 arg3
+
+Alternately, you can try to get a replacement for the system's B<Execute>
+command that honors the #!/usr/bin/perl syntax in scripts and set the s-Bit
+of your scripts. Then you can invoke your scripts like under UNIX with
+
+	foo arg1 arg2 arg3
+
+(Note that having *nixish full path to perl F</usr/bin/perl> is not
+necessary, F<perl> would be enough, but having full path would make it
+easier to use your script under *nix.)
+
+=head1 INSTALLATION
+
+Change to the installation directory (most probably ADE:), and
+extract the binary distribution:
+
+lha -mraxe x perl-5.003-bin.lha
+
+or
+
+tar xvzpf perl-5.003-bin.tgz
+
+(Of course you need lha or tar and gunzip for this.)
+
+For installation of the Unix emulation, read the appropriate docs.
+
+=head1 Accessing documentation
+
+=head2 Manpages
+
+If you have C<man> installed on your system, and you installed perl
+manpages, use something like this:
+
+	man perlfunc
+	man less
+	man ExtUtils.MakeMaker
+
+to access documentation for different components of Perl. Start with
+
+	man perl
+
+Note: You have to modify your man.conf file to search for manpages
+in the /ade/lib/perl5/man/man3 directory, or the man pages for the
+perl library will not be found. 
+
+Note that dot (F<.>) is used as a package separator for documentation
+for packages, and as usual, sometimes you need to give the section - C<3>
+above - to avoid shadowing by the I<less(1) manpage>.
+
+
+=head2 B<HTML>
+
+If you have some WWW browser available, you can build B<HTML> docs.
+Cd to directory with F<.pod> files, and do like this
+
+	cd /ade/lib/perl5/pod
+	pod2html
+
+After this you can direct your browser the file F<perl.html> in this
+directory, and go ahead with reading docs.
+
+Alternatively you may be able to get these docs prebuilt from C<CPAN>.
+
+=head2 B<GNU> C<info> files
+
+Users of C<Emacs> would appreciate it very much, especially with
+C<CPerl> mode loaded. You need to get latest C<pod2info> from C<CPAN>,
+or, alternately, prebuilt info pages.
+
+=head2 C<LaTeX> docs
+
+can be constructed using C<pod2latex>.
+
+=head1 BUILD
+
+Here we discuss how to build Perl under AmigaOS.
+
+=head2 Prerequisites
+
+You need to have the latest B<ADE> (Amiga Developers Environment)
+from ftp://ftp.ninemoons.com/pub/ade/current.
+Also, you need a lot of free memory, probably at least 8MB.
+
+=head2 Getting the perl source
+
+You can either get the latest perl-for-amiga source from Ninemoons
+and extract it with:
+
+  tar xvzpf perl-5.004-src.tgz
+
+or get the official source from CPAN:
+
+  http://www.perl.com/CPAN/src/5.0
+
+Extract it like this
+
+  tar xvzpf perl5.004.tar.gz
+
+You will see a message about errors while extracting F<Configure>. This
+is normal and expected. (There is a conflict with a similarly-named file
+F<configure>, but it causes no harm.)
+
+=head2 Making
+
+  sh configure.gnu --prefix=/ade
+
+Now
+
+  make
+
+=head2 Testing
+
+Now run
+
+  make test
+
+Some tests will fail. Here is which, and why:
+
+=over 8
+
+=item F<io/fs.t>, F<op/stat.t>, F<lib/*dbm.t>, F<lib/db-*.t>
+
+Check I<file system> operations. Failures result from the inability to
+emulate some Unixisms with the standard Amiga filesystem.
+
+=item F<io/pipe.t>, F<op/fork.t>, F<lib/filehand.t>, F<lib/open2.t>,
+      F<lib/open3.t>, F<lib/io_pipe.t>, F<lib/io_sock.t>
+
+These tests will be skipped because they use the fork() function, which is not
+supported under AmigaOS.
+
+=back
+
+=head2 Installing the built perl
+
+Run
+
+  make install
+
+=head1 AUTHOR
+
+Norbert Pueschel, pueschel@imsdd.meb.uni-bonn.de
+
+=head1 SEE ALSO
+
+perl(1).
+
+=cut