[inseparable changes from patch from perl5.003_19 to perl5.003_20]

 BUILD PROCESS

Subject: Make Configure default to the first domain in /etc/resolv.conf
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: Configure

Subject: Start all helper scripts with $startsh
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: Configure

Subject: Support libperl.so under FreeBSD
Date: Sun, 5 Jan 1997 22:41:49 +0100
From: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>
Files: Configure Makefile.SH
Msg-ID: <Mutt.19970105224149.roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit b126116e5ae3d57fa007f8a42fd506805b35163b)

 CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES

Subject: Rescind named closures
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: Makefile.SH op.c perly.c perly.c.diff perly.y pp_hot.c

Subject: Fix: empty @_ when calling empty-proto subs without parens
Date: Sat, 04 Jan 1997 10:29:04 +0000
From: Graham Barr <bodg@tiuk.ti.com>
Files: perly.c perly.y

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit 3112f5de73952f91aa4e8005d9852dfddbcf0402)

 CORE PORTABILITY

Subject: Configure/perl5/Compartmented Mode Workstation (fwd)
Date: Mon, 06 Jan 1997 13:15:38 -0500 (EST)
From: Andy Dougherty <doughera@fractal.phys.lafayette.edu>
Files: Configure hints/dec_osf.sh

    private-msgid: <Pine.SOL.3.95.970106131505.1662C-100000@fractal.lafayette.ed

Subject: Remove obsolete file "dl_os2.xs".
From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
Files: MANIFEST

 DOCUMENTATION

Subject: tiny doc patches
Date: Sat, 04 Jan 1997 11:12:13 -0500
From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
Files: pod/perlapio.pod pod/perlnews.pod pod/perltoc.pod
Msg-ID: <23338.852394333@eeyore.ibcinc.com>

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit b681178584626ba3718f1279845fd452317134c1)

Subject: doc patch for defined on perlfunc.pod
Date: 04 Jan 1997 21:28:30 -0500
From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
Files: pod/perlfunc.pod
Msg-ID: <pz91686ek1.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com>

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit 38e3adfd2e3d40b46e465482945c4f3de4bb50ef)

Subject: doc patch: perldsc
Date: 04 Jan 1997 21:25:58 -0500
From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
Files: pod/perldsc.pod pod/perltoc.pod
Msg-ID: <pzafqo6eo9.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com>

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit 4d42f92e5bf79556508016b7af91233b12e526eb)

Subject: scalar caller doc fix
Date: Mon, 06 Jan 1997 22:34:20 -0500
From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
Files: pod/perlfunc.pod
Msg-ID: <18245.852608060@eeyore.ibcinc.com>

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit 218104faecb0ec19e0f4f89e084959e757a5230f)

Subject: Misc perlfunc updates
From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@mox.perl.com>
Files: pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perltoc.pod

 LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS

Subject: sigaction() problems
Date: Mon, 06 Jan 1997 15:42:04 -0500
From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
Files: ext/POSIX/POSIX.pm ext/POSIX/POSIX.pod
Msg-ID: <12808.852583324@eeyore.ibcinc.com>

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit 84e96f2bcc509ba2fb5d2c9608a30cc3cfdea41a)

Subject: Fix importation of FileHandle methods; fix POSIX docs
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: ext/POSIX/POSIX.pm ext/POSIX/POSIX.pod lib/FileHandle.pm

Subject: Patch: make hints files warn about db-recno failures
Date: Sun, 5 Jan 1997 12:34:25 +0100
From: Dominic Dunlop <domo@slipper.ip.lu>
Files: MANIFEST hints/aux.sh hints/broken-db.msg hints/freebsd.sh

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit 692df45da95e2b7d14c4560347ef4555bb40b621)

 OTHER CORE CHANGES

Subject: Fix C< sub foo (&@); sub bar (&); foo {}, bar {}, bar {} >
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: perly.c perly.c.diff perly.y

Subject: plug for safe/opcode leaks
Date: Tue, 07 Jan 1997 17:20:46 -0500
From: Doug MacEachern <dougm@osf.org>
Files: op.c
Msg-ID: <199701072220.RAA02117@postman.osf.org>

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit 5cbfc2849d37f748a8facbcbf1c889c575943488)

Subject: Fix Dynaloader failures with DProf
Date: Mon, 06 Jan 1997 12:18:46 -0500
From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
Files: pp_hot.c

    private-msgid: <199701061718.MAA26909@aatma.engin.umich.edu>

 TESTS

Subject: New test: comp/proto.t
Date: Mon, 06 Jan 1997 09:13:03 +0000
From: Graham Barr <bodg@tiuk.ti.com>
Files: MANIFEST t/comp/proto.t

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit 8c1635e65dc1b3900503d444e985e3f0e5601454)

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/hints/broken-db.msg b/hints/broken-db.msg
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..92ba0776bf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hints/broken-db.msg
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+# Several OSs come with an old version of the DB library which fails
+# on a few of the db-recno.t tests.  This file is sourced by the hints
+# files for those OSs.
+
+cat <<EOF >&4
+
+Unless you've upgraded your DB library manually you will see failures in
+db-recno tests 51, 53 and 55.  The behavior these tests are checking is
+broken in the DB library which is included with the OS.  You can ignore
+the errors if you're never going to use the broken functionality (recno
+databases with a modified bval), otherwise you'll have to upgrade your
+DB library or OS.
+
+EOF