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diff --git a/README.amiga b/README.amiga index fd8e922d76..4a04dadcab 100644 --- a/README.amiga +++ b/README.amiga @@ -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 =head1 NAME -perlamiga - Perl under Amiga OS (possibly very outdated information) +perlamiga - Perl under Amiga OS =head1 SYNOPSIS -NOTE: The following information is highly unlikely to be correct.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 |