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@@ -4,15 +4,10 @@ specially designed to be readable as is.
=head1 NAME
-perlamiga - Perl under Amiga OS (possibly very outdated information)
+perlamiga - Perl under Amiga OS
=head1 SYNOPSIS
-NOTE: The following information is highly unlikely to be correct.
-A recent version of perl for the Amiga can be found at the Aminet site:
-
- http://us.aminet.net/aminet/dirs/dev_gg.html
-
One can read this document in the following formats:
man perlamiga
@@ -21,6 +16,11 @@ One can read this document in the following formats:
to list some (not all may be available simultaneously), or it may
be read I<as is>: either as F<README.amiga>, or F<pod/perlamiga.pod>.
+A recent version of perl for the Amiga can be found at the Geek Gadgets
+section of the Aminet:
+
+ http://www.aminet.net/~aminet/dirs/dev_gg.html
+
=cut
Contents
@@ -58,15 +58,12 @@ Contents
=item B<Unix emulation for AmigaOS: ixemul.library>
You need the Unix emulation for AmigaOS, whose most important part is
-B<ixemul.library>. For a minimum setup, get the following archives from
-the Aminet archives (http://www.aminet.net/~aminet/):
+B<ixemul.library>. For a minimum setup, get the latest versions
+of the following packages from the Aminet archives (http://www.aminet.net/~aminet/):
-ixemul-bin.lha
-ixemul-env-bin.lha
-pdksh-bin.lha
-
-Note that there might be newer versions available by the time you read
-this.
+ ixemul-bin
+ ixemul-env-bin
+ pdksh-bin
Note also that this is a minimum setup; you might want to add other
packages of B<ADE> (the I<Amiga Developers Environment>).
@@ -201,20 +198,56 @@ or get the official source from CPAN:
Extract it like this
- tar xvzpf perl$VERSION.tar.gz
+ tar xvzpf perl-$VERSION.tar.gz
You will see a message about errors while extracting F<Configure>. This
is normal and expected. (There is a conflict with a similarly-named file
F<configure>, but it causes no harm.)
=head2 Making
+
+=over 4
+
+=item *
+
+remember to use a healthy sized stack (I used 2000000)
+
+=item *
+
+your PATH environment variable must include /bin (e.g. ".:/bin" is good)
+(or, more precisely, it must include the directory where you have your
+basic UNIX utilities like test, cat, sed, and so on)
+
+=item *
+
+ sh Configure -Dprefix=/ade -Dloclibpth=/ade/lib
- sh configure.gnu --prefix=/ade
+=item *
-Now
+now type make depend
+
+ when the make depend has ended load the gnumakefile into a editor and
+ go to the end of the file
+ move upwards in the file until you reach av.o: EXTERN.h
+ and delete all lines down to # WARNING: Put....
+
+=item *
+
+now go to the x2p directory
+
+ load the gnumakefile
+ go to the end moveup until you reach hash.o: EXTERN.h
+ and delete all lines dowonwards until you reach
+ # WARNING: Put nothing....
+
+=item *
+
+Now!
make
+=back
+
=head2 Testing
Now run
@@ -232,9 +265,10 @@ Run
make install
-=head1 AUTHOR
+=head1 AUTHORS
Norbert Pueschel, pueschel@imsdd.meb.uni-bonn.de
+Jan-Erik Karlsson, trg@privat.utfors.se
=head1 SEE ALSO