perl5.002beta3

[editor's note: no patch file was found for this release, so no
fine-grained changes]

I can't find the password for our ftp server, so I had to drop it into
ftp://ftp.sems.com/pub/incoming/perl5.002b3.tar.gz, which is a drop
directory you can't ls.

The current plan is that Andy is gonna whack on this a little more, and
then release a gamma in a few days when he's happy with it.  So don't get
carried away.  This is now *late* beta.

In other words, have less than the appropriate amount of fun.  :-)

Larry

1 files changed, 115 insertions, 18 deletions

diff --git a/hints/dgux.sh b/hints/dgux.sh
index 733570b02b..bc54c945bd 100644
--- a/hints/dgux.sh
+++ b/hints/dgux.sh
@@ -1,26 +1,123 @@
+# $Id: dgux.sh,v 1.4 1996/01/18 03:40:38 roderick Exp $
+
+# This is a hints file for DGUX, which is Data General's Unix.  It was
+# developed using version 5.4.3.10 of the OS.  I think the gross
+# features should work with versions 5.4.2 through 5.4.4.11 with perhaps
+# minor tweaking, but I don't have any older or newer versions installed
+# at the moment with which to test it.
 #
-# hints file for Data General DG/UX
-# these hints tweaked for perl5 on an AViiON mc88100, running DG/UX 5.4R2.01
+# DGUX is a SVR4 derivative.  It ships with gcc as the standard
+# compiler.  Since version 5.4.3.0 it has shipped with Perl 4.036
+# installed in /usr/bin, which is kind of neat.  Be careful when you
+# install that you don't overwrite the system version, though (by
+# answering yes to the question about installing perl as /usr/bin/perl),
+# as it would suck to try to get support if the vendor learned that you
+# were physically replacing the system binaries.
 #
+# Be aware that if you opt to use dynamic loading you'll need to set
+# your $LD_LIBRARY_PATH to include the source directory when you build,
+# test and install the software.
+#
+# -Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
 
-gidtype='gid_t'
-groupstype='gid_t'
-libswanted="dgc $libswanted"
-uidtype='uid_t'
-d_index='define'
-ccflags='-D_POSIX_SOURCE -D_DGUX_SOURCE'
-
-# this hasn't been tried with dynamic loading at all
-usedl='false'
 
+# Here are the things from some old DGUX hints files which are different
+# from what's in here now.  I don't know the exact reasons that most of
+# these settings were in the hints files, presumably they can be chalked
+# up to old Configure inadequacies and changes in the OS headers and the
+# like.  These settings might make a good place to start looking if you
+# have problems.
 #
-# an ugly hack, since the Configure test for "gcc -P -" hangs.
-# can't just use 'cppstdin', since our DG has a broken cppstdin :-(
+# This was specified the the 4.036 hints file.  That hints file didn't
+# say what version of the OS it was developed using.
 #
-cppstdin=`cd ..; pwd`/cppstdin
-cpprun=`cd ..; pwd`/cppstdin
-
+#     cppstdin='/lib/cpp'
+#
+# The 4.036 and 5.001 hints files both contained these.  The 5.001 hints
+# file said it was developed with version 5.4.2.01 of DGUX.
+#
+#     gidtype='gid_t'
+#     groupstype='gid_t'
+#     uidtype='uid_t'
+#     d_index='define'
+#     cc='gcc'
+#
+# These were peculiar to the 5.001 hints file.
+#
+#     ccflags='-D_POSIX_SOURCE -D_DGUX_SOURCE'
 #
-# you don't want to use /usr/ucb/cc
+#     # an ugly hack, since the Configure test for "gcc -P -" hangs.
+#     # can't just use 'cppstdin', since our DG has a broken cppstdin :-(
+#     cppstdin=`cd ..; pwd`/cppstdin
+#     cpprun=`cd ..; pwd`/cppstdin
 #
-cc='gcc'
+# One last note:  The 5.001 hints file said "you don't want to use
+# /usr/ucb/cc" in the place at which it set cc to gcc.  That in
+# particular baffles me, as I used to have 5.4.2.01 loaded and my memory
+# is telling me that even then /usr/ucb was a symlink to /usr/bin.
+
+
+# The standard system compiler is gcc, but invoking it as cc changes its
+# behavior.  I have to pick one name or the other so I can get the
+# dynamic loading switches right (they vary depending on this).  I'm
+# picking gcc because there's no way to get at the optimization options
+# and so on when you call it cc.
+case $cc in
+    '')
+	cc=gcc
+	case $optimize in
+	    '') optimize=-O2;;
+	esac
+	;;
+esac
+
+usevfork=true
+
+# DG has this thing set up with symlinks which point to different places
+# depending on environment variables (see elink(5)) and the compiler and
+# related tools use them to access different development environments
+# (COFF, ELF, m88k BCS and so on), see sde(5).  The upshot, however, is
+# that when a normal program tries to access one of these elinks it sees
+# no such file (like stat()ting a mis-directed symlink).  Setting
+# $plibpth to explicitly include the place to which the elinks point
+# allows Configure to find libraries which vary based on the development
+# environment.
+plibpth="$plibpth \
+    ${SDE_PATH:-/usr}/sde/${TARGET_BINARY_INTERFACE:-m88kdgux}/usr/lib"
+
+# Many functions (eg, gethostent(), killpg(), getpriority(), setruid()
+# dbm_*(), and plenty more) are defined in -ldgc.  Usually you don't
+# need to know this (it seems that libdgc.so is searched automatically
+# by ld), but Configure needs to check it otherwise it will report all
+# those functions as missing.
+libswanted="dgc $libswanted"
+
+# Dynamic loading works using the dlopen() functions.  Note that dlfcn.h
+# is broken, it declares _dl*() rather than dl*().  (This is in my
+# I'd-open-a-ticket-about-this-if-it-weren't-going-to-be-such-a-hassle
+# file.)  You can ignore the warnings caused by the missing
+# declarations, they're harmless.
+usedl=true
+# For cc rather than gcc the flags would be `-K PIC' for compiling and
+# -G for loading.  I haven't tested this.
+cccdlflags=-fpic
+lddlflags=-shared
+# The Perl library has to be built as a shared library so that dynamic
+# loading will work (otherwise code loaded with dlopen() won't be able
+# to reference symbols in the main part of perl).  Note that since
+# Configure doesn't normally prompt about $d_shrplib this will cause a
+# `Whoa there!'.  This is normal, just keep the recommended value.  A
+# consequence of all this is that you've got to include the source
+# directory in your LD_LIBRARY_PATH when you're building and testing
+# perl.
+d_shrplib=define
+
+# The system has a function called dg_flock() which is an flock()
+# emulation built using fcntl() locking.  Perl currently comes with an
+# flock() emulation which uses lockf(), it should eventually also
+# include an fcntl() emulation of its own.  Until that happens I
+# recommend using DG's emulation (and ignoring the `WHOA THERE!' this
+# causes), it provides semantics closer to the original than the lockf()
+# emulation.
+ccflags="$ccflags -Dflock=dg_flock"
+d_flock=define