[inseparable changes from match from perl-5.003_99a to perl5.004]

 BUILD PROCESS

Subject: Don't use 'unset' in Configure
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: Configure

Subject: Protect against having no such command as 'cc'
Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 16:35:34 -0400 (EDT)
From: Hans Mulder <hansm@icgned.nl>
Files: Configure
Msg-ID: 1997May12.163534.2006434@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit 3bf198a5e20d135d4136d3233d58cf49a70772d9)

Subject: minor wording enhancement for Configure
Date: Sat, 10 May 1997 13:38:31 +0300 (EET DST)
From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <Jarkko.Hietaniemi@cc.hut.fi>
Files: Configure

    private-msgid: 199705101038.NAA00471@alpha.hut.fi

 CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES

Subject: Make C<m//g> reset pos on failure; make C<m//gc> not reset
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: dump.c op.c op.h pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlfaq6.pod pod/perlop.pod pod/perlre.pod pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c regcomp.c t/op/pat.t toke.c

Subject: SECURITY: Forbid exec() if $ENV{BASH_ENV} is tainted
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlrun.pod pod/perlsec.pod t/op/taint.t taint.c

Subject: Allow exec() if $ENV{TERM} is tainted but innocuous
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlrun.pod pod/perlsec.pod t/op/taint.t taint.c

Subject: Allow globbing when tainted under VMS (no external program)
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: pp_sys.c t/op/taint.t

 CORE PORTABILITY

Subject: Win32 update (three patches)
From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
Files: README.win32 perl.c win32/Makefile win32/config.H win32/config_h.PL win32/config_sh.PL win32/makedef.pl win32/win32.c win32/win32.h win32/win32io.c win32/win32io.h win32/win32iop.h

Subject: Don't require executable bit on perl -S if DOSISH
Date: Fri, 09 May 1997 12:33:18 -0400
From: Danny Sadinoff <sadinoff@olf.com>
Files: perl.c
Msg-ID: 337351CE.79B28DE3@olf.com

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit 7596f71a28f72f9e3abd6d3962d29a7752cd9303)

 DOCUMENTATION

Subject: Tweaks for perldelta
Date: Sun, 11 May 97 01:46:00 +0200
From: Unknown Contributor <hansm@euronet.nl>
Files: pod/perldelta.pod
Msg-ID: 199705102346.BAA17300@mail.euronet.nl

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit 3e10809228cc961223b894e1639b44f8e2b64de0)

Subject: Mention perlfaq.pod and perlmodlib.pod in perldelta.pod
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: pod/perldelta.pod

Subject: Fix example of use of lexicals with formats
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: pod/perldelta.pod

 OTHER CORE CHANGES

Subject: In C<eval &func>, always call &func in scalar context
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: op.c

Subject: Fix recursive substitution
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: cop.h global.sym pp_ctl.c proto.h scope.c

Subject: Fix core dump from get*() functions returning no alias array
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: pp_sys.c

Subject: Fix typo
Date: Sat, 10 May 1997 17:28:35 -0500
From: Mark K Trettin <mkt@lucent.com>
Files: pp_sys.c

    private-msgid: 199705102228.RAA11163@gv18c.ih.lucent.com

1 files changed, 47 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/README.win32 b/README.win32
index 8f1ff1bcf0..fe5d85ab07 100644
--- a/README.win32
+++ b/README.win32
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ compilers that can generally be used to build Win32 applications.
 This port currently supports MakeMaker (the set of modules that
 is used to build extensions to perl).  Therefore, you should be
 able to build and install most extensions found in the CPAN sites.
-See the L<Usage Hints> section for general hints about this.
+See L<Usage Hints> below for general hints about this.
 
 =head2 Setting Up
 
@@ -59,8 +59,9 @@ See the L<Usage Hints> section for general hints about this.
 
 Use the default "cmd" shell that comes with NT.  In particular, do
 *not* use the 4DOS/NT shell.  The Makefile has commands that are not
-compatible with that shell.  You are mostly on your own if you can
-muster the temerity to attempt this with Windows95.
+compatible with that shell.  The Makefile also has known
+incompatibilites with the default shell that comes with Windows95,
+so building under Windows95 should be considered "unsupported".
 
 =item *
 
@@ -98,10 +99,22 @@ versions of NMAKE that come with Visual C++ ver. 2.0 and above.
 Edit the Makefile and change the values of INST_DRV and INST_TOP
 if you want perl to be installed in a location other than "C:\PERL".
 
+If you want to build a perl capable of running on the Windows95
+platform, you will have to uncomment the line that sets "RUNTIME=-MT".
+(The default settings use the Microsoft-recommended -MD option for
+compiling, which uses the DLL version of the C RunTime Library.  There
+currently exists a bug in the Microsoft CRTL that causes failure of
+the socket calls only on the Windows95 platform.  This bug cannot be
+worked around if the DLL version of the CRTL is used, which is why you
+need to enable the -MT flag.)  Perl compiled with -MT can be used on
+both Windows NT and Windows95.
+
+If you are using Visual C++ ver. 2.0, uncomment the line that
+sets "CCTYPE=MSVC20".
+
 =item *
 
-If you are using Visual C++ ver. 4.0 and above: type "nmake".
-If you are using a Visual C++ ver. 2.0: type "nmake CCTYPE=MSVC20".
+Type "nmake".
 
 This should build everything.  Specifically, it will create perl.exe,
 perl.dll, and perlglob.exe at the perl toplevel, and various other
@@ -221,7 +234,7 @@ This pipes "foo" to the pager and writes "bar" in the file "blurch":
     perl -e "print 'foo'; print STDERR 'bar'" 2> blurch | less
 
 
-Discovering the usage of the "command.com" shell on Windows 95
+Discovering the usage of the "command.com" shell on Windows95
 is left as an exercise to the reader :)
 
 =item Building Extensions
@@ -253,6 +266,33 @@ it looks like the extension building support is at fault, report
 that with full details of how the build failed using the perlbug
 utility.
 
+=item Win32 Specific Extensions
+
+A number of extensions specific to the Win32 platform are available
+from CPAN.  You may find that many of these extensions are meant to
+be used under the Activeware port of Perl, which used to be the only
+native port for the Win32 platform.  Since the Activeware port does not
+have adequate support for Perl's extension building tools, these
+extensions typically do not support those tools either, and therefore
+cannot be built using the generic steps shown in the previous section.
+
+To ensure smooth transitioning of existing code that uses the
+Activeware port, there is a bundle of Win32 extensions that contains
+all of the Activeware extensions and most other Win32 extensions from
+CPAN in source form, along with many added bugfixes, and with MakeMaker
+support.  This bundle is available at:
+
+   http://www.perl.com/CPAN/authors/id/GSAR/libwin32-0.06.tar.gz
+
+See the README in that distribution for building and installation
+instructions.  Look for later versions that may be available at the
+same location.
+
+It is expected that authors of Win32 specific extensions will begin
+distributing their work in MakeMaker compatible form subsequent to
+the 5.004 release of perl, at which point the need for a dedicated
+bundle such as the above should diminish.
+
 =item Miscellaneous Things
 
 A full set of HTML documentation is installed, so you should be
@@ -379,6 +419,6 @@ at the time.
 Nick Ing-Simmons and Gurusamy Sarathy have made numerous and
 sundry hacks since then.
 
-Last updated: 13 April 1997
+Last updated: 15 May 1997
 
 =cut