perl 5.003_02: [no incremental changelog available]

1 files changed, 42 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/hints/next_4.sh b/hints/next_4.sh
index 0e6b7e0271..70438dd4a2 100644
--- a/hints/next_4.sh
+++ b/hints/next_4.sh
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Posix support has been removed from NextStep, expect test/POSIX to fail 
+######################################################################
 #
 # IMPORTANT: before you run 'make', you need to enter one of these two
 # lines (depending on your shell):
@@ -6,6 +6,10 @@
 # or
 #	setenv DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH `pwd`
 #
+######################################################################
+
+# Posix support has been removed from NextStep 
+#
 useposix='undef'
 
 altmake='gnumake'
@@ -14,18 +18,28 @@ libswanted=' '
 libc='/NextLibrary/Frameworks/System.framework/System'
 
 isnext_4='define'
+
+#
+# Change the line below if you do not want to build 'quad-fat'
+# binaries
+#
 mab='-arch m68k -arch i386 -arch sparc'
 ldflags='-dynamic -prebind'
 lddlflags='-dynamic -bundle -undefined suppress'
-ccflags='-dynamic -fno-common -DUSE_NEXT_CTYPE'
+ccflags='-dynamic -fno-common -DUSE_NEXT_CTYPE -DUSE_PERL_SBRK -DHIDEMYMALLOC'
 cccdlflags='none'
 ld='cc'
-optimize='-g -O'
+#optimize='-g -O'
 
 d_shrplib='define'
 dlext='bundle'
 so='dylib'
 
+#
+# The default prefix would be '/usr/local'. But since many people are
+# likely to have still 3.3 machines on their network, we do not want
+# to overwrite possibly existing 3.3 binaries. 
+#
 prefix='/usr/local/OPENSTEP'
 #archlib='/usr/lib/perl5'
 #archlibexp='/usr/lib/perl5'
@@ -37,9 +51,33 @@ i_utime='undef'
 groupstype='int'
 direntrytype='struct direct'
 
+######################################################################
+# THE MALLOC STORY
+######################################################################
+# 1994:
 # the simple program `for ($i=1;$i<38771;$i++){$t{$i}=123}' fails
 # with Larry's malloc on NS 3.2 due to broken sbrk()
-usemymalloc='n'
+#
+# setting usemymalloc='n' was the solution back then. Later came
+# reports that perl would run unstable on 3.2:
+#
+# From about perl5.002beta1h perl became unstable on the
+# NeXT. Intermittent coredumps were frequent on 3.2 OS. There were
+# reports, that the developer version of 3.3 didn't have problems, so it
+# seemed pretty obvious that we had to work around an malloc bug in 3.2.
+# This hints file reflects a patch to perl5.002_01 that introduces a
+# home made sbrk routine (remember, NeXT's sbrk _never_ worked). This
+# sbrk makes it possible to run perl with its own malloc. Thanks to
+# Ilya who showed me the way to his sbrk for OS/2!!
+# andreas koenig, 1996-06-16
+#
+# So, this hintsfile is using perl's malloc. If you want to turn perl's
+# malloc off, you need to change remove '-DUSE_PERL_SBRK' and 
+# '-DHIDEMYMALLOC' from the ccflags above and set usemymalloc below
+# to 'n'.
+#
+######################################################################
+usemymalloc='y'
 clocktype='int'
 
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