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authorAndy Dougherty <doughera@lafcol.lafayette.edu>1995-02-07 01:51:12 +0000
committerAndy Dougherty <doughera@lafcol.lafayette.edu>1995-02-07 01:51:12 +0000
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perl5.000 patch.0j: fix minor portability and build problems remaining even after patches 0a through 0i
Specifically, here's what's included: Configure Regenerated with metaconfig patchlevel 50. This changed a variety of things, mostly related to selecting and changing the installation prefix. Handle csh, sed, and byacc no matter what the setting of d_portable. (This was causing glob problems in patch.0i). Set d_portable to default to 'y'. It doesn't matter anyway, but gives people a warm fuzzy feeling. Remove useless d_group and d_passwd tests. Add check for <sys/stat.h>. Improve & generalize AIX version detection. Consider /opt/man/man1 as a possible place to install man pages. Be a little more robust about OS version changes when deciding if the output of uname -a has really changed. MANIFEST MANIFEST.new Added hints/mpeix.sh. README Tell users the Configure defaults are probably right. Makefile.SH Better detection of whether user has byacc. Use $(MAKE) instead of make. U/Loc_sed.U Works again with d_portable='define'. U/Myinit.U Set d_portable=define as default. U/d_byacc.U Detect whether user has byacc even if d_portable=define. U/d_csh.U Works again with d_portable='define'. U/d_group.U Empty file to avoid useless metaconfig test. U/d_passwd.U Empty file to avoid useless metaconfig test. U/dist.patch This file contains two minor updates to dist3 PL50 that were used to generage Configure. U/i_sysstat.U New test. See if sys/stat.h is available. config.H Updated. config_h.SH Updated to metaconfig patchlevel 50. ext/NDBM_File/Makefile.PL ext/ODBM_File/Makefile.PL Add -lucb for SVR4 systems. handy.h Protect agains g++-2.6.3, which predefines bool. g++ can be used to compile an extension, but not perl itself. Still, the extension will #include "perl.h", which eventually gets "handy.h", which #define's bool. If this happens to you, add -DHAS_BOOL to your ccflags in your extension, or else ensure that _G_config.h is #include'd before perl.h. (_G_config.h will define _G_HAVE_BOOL, if indeed your version of g++ has bool.) hints/aix.sh Updated. Handles AIX 3.2.x and 4.1. Comments included! hints/hpux_9.sh Updated. hints/irix_4.sh Updated. Includes comments for IRIX 4.0.4 hints/linux.sh Updated. Beginnings of ELF support added, but completely untested. hints/mpeix.sh New hint file. hints/solaris_2.sh Useless ccflags="$ccflags" line removed. hints/svr4.sh Updated. installperl Doesn't use Config anymore (it already reads config.sh directly. That's probably backwards, but, oh well. Install perl.exp for AIX. lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm Upgraded from 4.01 to 4.03. makedepend.SH Use $MAKE instead of plain make. Index: op.c Remove overlapping strcpy(). perl.h Add test for <sys/stat.h>. Delete unused VOIDSIG stuff. Delete unused typedef struct lstring Lstring; perl_exp.SH Add safexxxx calls. pp_sys.c Delete wayward break in HAS_ALARM section. proto.h Change true and false (!) in function prototypes to please g++-2.6.3, which has true and false built in. (See notes for handy.h.) Index: unixish.h Long-overdue housekeeping. HAS_GROUP and HAS_PASSWD are always defined. util.c Yet another (char*) cast for bcmp. vms/config.vms Changed comments to match unixish.h. writemain.SH Now correctly handles nested static extensions. Recent MakeMakers have moved where they get built. x2p/a2p.h More definitions that will doubtless cause trouble somewhere else. x2p/a2py.c x2p/walk.c Remove unprotected char *strchr();
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@@ -63,11 +63,12 @@ in MANIFEST.
Installation
-1) Run Configure. This will figure out various things about your system.
- Some things Configure will figure out for itself, other things it
- will ask you about. It will then proceed to make config.h,
- config.sh, and Makefile. You may have to explicitly say
- sh Configure to ensure that Configure is run under sh.
+1) Run Configure. This will figure out various things about your
+ system. Some things Configure will figure out for itself, other
+ things it will ask you about. If the test scripts and programs
+ run ok, the defaults will usually be right. It will then proceed to
+ make config.h, config.sh, and Makefile. You may have to explicitly
+ say sh Configure to ensure that Configure is run under sh.
If you're a hotshot, run Configure -d to take all the defaults and
then edit config.sh to patch up any flaws and run Configure -S.
@@ -136,7 +137,6 @@ Installation
MIPS machines may need to undef d_volatile.
MIPS machines may need to turn off -O on some files.
Some MIPS machines may need to undefine CASTNEGFLOAT.
- Xenix 386 may need -UM_I86. See also README.xenix.
Genix may need to use libc rather than libc_s, or #undef VARARGS.
NCR Tower 32 (OS 2.01.01) may need -W2,-Sl,2000 and #undef MKDIR.
A/UX may appear to work with -O -B/usr/lib/big/ optimizer flags.