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authorAndreas König <a.koenig@mind.de>1998-07-12 18:27:21 +0200
committerGurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org>1998-07-12 21:54:02 +0000
commita29d2910a363e5b308f0e74eda4c093080b7afbd (patch)
treeed924856910a22bddd0e0cc2f6833be5ac183600 /README.win32
parentf16f1ef3ec3c8c58712148883eca0ebdbd810185 (diff)
downloadperl-a29d2910a363e5b308f0e74eda4c093080b7afbd.tar.gz
applied installperl patch, corrected other little nits
Message-ID: <sfcn2afrvp2.fsf@dubravka.in-berlin.de> Subject: [5.004_72] installperl tweak p4raw-id: //depot/perl@1455
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@@ -50,7 +50,8 @@ following compilers:
Mingw32 with EGCS version 1.0.2
Mingw32 with GCC version 2.8.1
-The last two of these are high quality freeware compilers.
+The last two of these are high quality freeware compilers. Support
+for them is still experimental.
This port currently supports MakeMaker (the set of modules that
is used to build extensions to perl). Therefore, you should be
@@ -145,7 +146,8 @@ a perl interpreter that supports the Perl Object abstraction (courtesy
ActiveState Tool Corp.) PERL_OBJECT uses C++, and the binaries are
therefore incompatible with the regular C build. However, the
PERL_OBJECT build does provide something called the C-API, for linking
-it with extensions that won't compile under PERL_OBJECT.
+it with extensions that won't compile under PERL_OBJECT. PERL_OBJECT
+cannot be enabled when using GCC or EGCS, yet.
Beginning with version 5.005, there is experimental support for building
a perl interpreter that is capable of native threading. Binaries built