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diff --git a/README.Conf b/README.Conf deleted file mode 100644 index 807b457afc..0000000000 --- a/README.Conf +++ /dev/null @@ -1,146 +0,0 @@ -From: doughera@lafcol.lafayette.edu (Andy Dougherty) -Subject: RE: First stab at Configure Support for perl5alpha -Date: Fri Apr 29 16:43:18 EDT 1994 - -I have incorporated various fixes/suggestions into the Configure -support for perl5alpha8. The main changes are the following: - -Better incorporation of extensions in Makefile.SH. - -miniperlmain.c no longer requires dynamic loading. - -perl can use dynamic loading if available, but extensions can - also be compiled in statically, if desired. - -perlmain.c now built from miniperlmain.c by writemain.SH, - which is called in the makefile. Only the requested extensions - are compiled in. - -dynamic loading broken up into dl_sunos.c, dl_next.c, dl_hpux.c. - Configure will look for dl_$osname.c, where osname is determined - at the same time as hints are suggested. - -Configure support added for sdbm library (ext/dbm/sdbm/libsdbm.a). - This still needs testing. - -Tests for extensions now check in %Config to see if that extension - is available. Note, however, the sdbm is not an *optional* - extension, so it will fail (and make test will complain) - if sdbm is not installed. Thus perl programmers can safely assume - that at least sdbm is available. - -configpm now correctly handles comments at the end of config.sh - (which Configure places there if a hints file tries to propagate - unknown variables, such as libswanted). - -makedepend now works in UU/ subdirectory (so it doesn't delete - miniperlmain.c on systems with 14-character file name limits). - -ext/typemap: My compiler couldn't handle some of the more complex - casts, so an intermediate unsigned long variable has been introduced. - I should probably re-do this in terms of a CRIPPLED_CC macro in - XSUB.h, but it's not clear to me that it's worth it. - -some new or updated hints files. - -miscellaneous bug fixes. - -Problems remaining: - - -POSIX module is still under construction. - -Dynamic loading of extensions works on SunOS 4.1.3, but it - might need modifications to work with other systems. - -It is possible to do mixed dynamic/static loading, that is, - load commonly used modules statically and other modules - dynamically. Currently, this must be done by hand by setting - extobj in makefile and hand-editing perlmain.c. - The newXSUB line for the static module must be moved into - the #ifdef USE_DYNAMIC_LOADING section in perlmain.c, and the - module .o file must be added to the extobj= line in makefile. - -lib/[sn]dbm.t tests create a new file with a hard-wired set of - flags. These should be replaced with O_CREAT | O_RDWR, which - will be available from POSIX.pm, once it is up and running. - For now, you might have to change the 0x202 to 0x102 (or perhaps - 0x402) in lib/[sn]dbm.t for the tests to succeed. - -I have applied several suggested fixes for use on the DEC alpha, - but I haven't been able to keep up with all of them. - -Though CRIPPLED_CC works, it might be desireable to have Configure - try to figure it out. - -To apply: Obtain a clean copy of perl5alpha8 - cd <your perl5alpha8 directory> - patch -p1 < <this patch> - -As before, I am willing to continue to coordinate and develop the -Configure support. - -Thanks to the following for various and often quite substantial -patches and suggestions: - Peter Galbavy <peter@wonderland.org> - Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi> - Andreas Koenig <koen1830@w203zrz.zrz.tu-berlin.de> - Raphael Manfredi <ram@acri.fr> - David Meyer <dmm0t@rincewind.mech.virginia.edu> - Jeff Okamoto <okamoto@hpcc101.corp.hp.com> - John Stoffel <john@WPI.EDU> - Larry Wall (lwall@netlabs.com> - - Andy Dougherty doughera@lafcol.lafayette.edu - Dept. of Physics Phone: (610) 250-5212 - Lafayette College FAX: (610) 250-9263 - Easton, PA 18042-1782 - -================================================================= - -From: doughera@lafcol.lafayette.edu (Andy Dougherty) -Subject: First stab at Configure Support for perl5alpha -Date: Mon Apr 4 15:13:50 EDT 1994 - -I've updated Configure to support perl5alpha7. Consider this a -first attempt. I am willing to continue to develop and coordinate -improvement on this. I've included the metaconfig units (in the U/ -directory) that I developed for this. New units, or fixes to these, -are welcome. - -Here's what should work: - -You should be able to Configure and run miniperl on any platform - that supported perl4. - - -Configure should be more amenable to hints. In particular, - you can remove directories from the library search path with - a hints file. See hints/solaris_2_3.sh for an example. - -Here's what needs improvement: - -Including dynamic loading on works on SunOS 4.1.x, as far as I - know, but nowhere else. I don't understand enough about what's - going on to put in stub functions for those who might want/have to - use another dynamic linking package or static linking. Configure - assumes you want to use the dl.c source file if you try to use - dynamic linking. Still, you should be able to get miniperl up and - running. - - -I haven't made any changes to installperl. - - -Makefile.SH (and hence makefile) should arrange to pick up the - appropriate .pm modules from the extensions directory and install - them. I haven't done anything about that. - - -I didn't incorporate any of the Configure changes into the - extension files, partly because I couldn't get past the dynamic - loading problem on my main machine, but mostly because I haven't - had the time yet. That's near the top of the ToDo list. - - -I made no changes to the x2p/ subdirectory, though some might - be probably needed. - - -Lots of the hints files are probably now out of date. - The solaris_2_[23].sh ones are completely untested guesses. - Fixed/updated version are welcome. - - -The defaults are to use perl's malloc and compile with - -g -DDEBUGGING. I was unable to get perl to pass all tests - with anything else. Part of the problem may be the stupid stub - functions I inserted in dump.c and sv.c, but there may be other - malloc/free problems elsewhere. - - -Whatever else I broke to get this to work. - -Thanks to - Tim Bunce <timbo@ig.co.uk>, - Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@pilgrim.umass.edu>, and - Bill Hertzing <wgh@fns.com> -for various suggestions and help. Thanks to Raphael Manfredi for -much work on dist-3.0. - - Andy Dougherty doughera@lafcol.lafayette.edu - Dept. of Physics Phone: (610) 250-5212 - Lafayette College FAX: (610) 250-9263 - Easton, PA 18042-1782 |