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@@ -64,6 +64,23 @@ In a related issue, old extensions may possibly be affected by the changes in the Perl language in the current release. Please see pod/perldelta.pod for a description of what's changed. +=head1 WARNING: This version requires a compiler that supports ANSI C. + +If you find that your C compiler is not ANSI-capable, try obtaining +GCC, available from GNU mirrors worldwide (e.g. ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu). +Another alternative may be to use a tool like C<ansi2knr> to convert the +sources back to K&R style, but there is no guarantee this route will get +you anywhere, since the prototypes are not the only ANSI features used +in the Perl sources. C<ansi2knr> is usually found as part of the freely +available C<Ghostscript> distribution. Another similar tool is +C<unprotoize>, distributed with GCC. Since C<unprotoize> requires GCC to +run, you may have to run it on a platform where GCC is available, and move +the sources back to the platform without GCC. + +If you succeed in automatically converting the sources to a K&R compatible +form, be sure to email perlbug@perl.com to let us know the steps you +followed. This will enable us to officially support this option. + =head1 Space Requirements The complete perl5 source tree takes up about 10 MB of disk space. The |