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| author | Leo Lapworth <leo@cuckoo.org> | 2011-04-03 09:04:06 +0100 |
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| committer | Father Chrysostomos <sprout@cpan.org> | 2011-05-18 16:31:19 -0700 |
| commit | 0947f90e8328700f4354e8f3ea03cab7531f8cd0 (patch) | |
| tree | 54d55199c84cabe57953ced5d621215817538e31 /README.macosx | |
| parent | 9b34ea9a169153139b97803594f16e5e39598524 (diff) | |
| download | perl-0947f90e8328700f4354e8f3ea03cab7531f8cd0.tar.gz | |
README.macosx - cleanup/update copy, remove 'MacPerl'
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diff --git a/README.macosx b/README.macosx index 839bcf4077..7adc78d9bc 100644 --- a/README.macosx +++ b/README.macosx @@ -8,14 +8,20 @@ README.macosx - Perl under Mac OS X =head1 SYNOPSIS -This document briefly describes perl under Mac OS X. +This document briefly describes Perl under Mac OS X. + curl http://www.cpan.org/src/perl-5.12.3.tar.gz > perl-5.12.3.tar.gz + tar -xzf perl-5.12.3.tar.gz + cd perl-5.12.3 + ./Configure -des -Dprefix=/usr/local/ + make + make test + sudo make install =head1 DESCRIPTION -The latest Perl release (5.8.8 as of this writing) builds without changes -under Mac OS X. Under 10.3 "Panther" and newer OS versions, all self-tests -pass, and all standard features are supported. +The latest Perl release (5.12.3 as of this writing) builds without changes +under all versions of Mac OS X from 10.3 "Panther" onwards. Earlier Mac OS X releases (10.2 "Jaguar" and older) did not include a completely thread-safe libc, so threading is not fully supported. Also, @@ -183,23 +189,6 @@ failures in the C<lib/locale> test. These failures have been suppressed in the current release of Perl by making the test ignore the broken locale. If you need to use the eu_ES locale, you should contact Apple support. -=head2 MacPerl - -Quite a bit has been written about MacPerl, the Perl distribution for -"Classic MacOS" - that is, versions 9 and earlier of MacOS. Because it -runs in environment that's very different from that of UNIX, many things -are done differently in MacPerl. Modules are installed using a different -procedure, Perl itself is built differently, path names are different, -etc. - -From the perspective of a Perl programmer, Mac OS X is more like a -traditional UNIX than Classic MacOS. If you find documentation that -refers to a special procedure that's needed for MacOS that's drastically -different from the instructions provided for UNIX, the MacOS -instructions are quite often intended for MacPerl on Classic MacOS. In -that case, the correct procedure on Mac OS X is usually to follow the -UNIX instructions, rather than the MacPerl instructions. - =head2 Carbon |