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authorJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>2001-06-06 23:10:00 +0000
committerJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>2001-06-06 23:10:00 +0000
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downloadperl-a83b6f466440987720492416f8091f2530a9ab41.tar.gz
Podify the remaining README.platform files;
merge README.plan9 and plan9/perlplan9.pod; delete plan9/perlplan9.* (the perlplan.doc needs to be regenerated in Plan 9); make the =head1 and =head2 in the README.platform to be a little more verbose (skipped README.os2 not to anger Ilya) so that they look better in the toc; regen toc. p4raw-id: //depot/perl@10461
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@@ -20,12 +20,12 @@ and testing it with 3.1A and are currently using Version V4.0A.
You may need the following GNU programs in order to install perl:
-=head2 gzip
+=head2 gzip on BS2000
We used version 1.2.4, which could be installed out of the box with
one failure during 'make check'.
-=head2 bison
+=head2 bison on BS2000
The yacc coming with BS2000 POSIX didn't work for us. So we had to
use bison. We had to make a few changes to perl in order to use the
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ pure (reentrant) parser of bison. We used version 1.25, but we had to
add a few changes due to EBCDIC. See below for more details
concerning yacc.
-=head2 Unpacking
+=head2 Unpacking Perl Distribution on BS2000
To extract an ASCII tar archive on BS2000 POSIX you need an ASCII
filesystem (we used the mountpoint /usr/local/ascii for this). Now
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ cd /usr/local/src
IO_CONVERSION=YES
cp -r /usr/local/ascii/perl5.005_02 ./
-=head2 Compiling
+=head2 Compiling Perl on BS2000
There is a "hints" file for BS2000 called hints.posix-bc (because
posix-bc is the OS name given by `uname`) that specifies the correct
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ ln -s /usr/bin/yacc /usr/local/bin/byacc
We build perl using GNU make. We tried the native make once and it
worked too.
-=head2 Testing
+=head2 Testing Perl on BS2000
We still got a few errors during C<make test>. Some of them are the
result of using bison. Bison prints I<parser error> instead of I<syntax
@@ -120,13 +120,13 @@ lib/complex.........FAILED tests 267, 487
lib/dumper..........FAILED tests 43, 45
Failed 11/231 test scripts, 95.24% okay. 57/10595 subtests failed, 99.46% okay.
-=head2 Install
+=head2 Installing Perl on BS2000
We have no nroff on BS2000 POSIX (yet), so we ignored any errors while
installing the documentation.
-=head2 Using Perl in the Posix-Shell
+=head2 Using Perl in the Posix-Shell of BS2000
BS2000 POSIX doesn't support the shebang notation
(C<#!/usr/local/bin/perl>), so you have to use the following lines
@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ checkfiles.pl %*.c>). Read your C/C++ manual for additional
possibilities of the commandline prompt (look for
PARAMETER-PROMPTING).
-=head2 Floating point anomalies
+=head2 Floating point anomalies on BS2000
There appears to be a bug in the floating point implementation on BS2000 POSIX
systems such that calling int() on the product of a number and a small