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diff --git a/README.beos b/README.beos index ccd9cbc6c6..7458672cee 100644 --- a/README.beos +++ b/README.beos @@ -1,39 +1,55 @@ -Notes on building perl under BeOS: +If you read this file _as_is_, just ignore the funny characters you see. +It is written in the POD format (see pod/perlpod.pod) which is specially +designed to be readable as is. -GENERAL ISSUES --------------- -how to compile perl: +=head1 NAME + +README.beos - Perl version 5 on BeOS + +=head1 DESCRIPTION + +Notes for building Perl under BeOS. + +=head2 General Issues with Perl on BeOS To compile perl under BeOS R4 x86: -`./Configure -d` and hit ^C when it asks you if you want to make changes -to config.sh; + ./Configure -d +and hit ^C when it asks you if you want to make changes to config.sh; edit config.sh and do the following: change d_socket='define' to ='undef'; remove SDBM, Errno, and Socket from dynamic_ext= and nonxs_ext=; - add '#define bool short' to x2p/a2p.h; -../Configure -S; make; make install + ../Configure -S; make; make install + + cd ~/config/lib; ln -s 5.00502/BeOS-BePC/CORE/libperl.so . -cd ~/config/lib; ln -s 5.00502/BeOS-BePC/CORE/libperl.so . (substitute 5.00502 with the appropriate filename) -OS RELEASE-SPECIFIC NOTES -------------------------- -R4 x86 - dynamic loading finally works! Yay! This means you can compile -your own modules into perl. However, Sockets and Errno still don't work. +=head2 BeOS Release-specific Notes + +=over 4 + +=item R4 x86 + +Dynamic loading finally works! Yay! This means you can compile your +own modules into perl. However, Sockets and Errno still don't work. (Hopefully, sockets will at least work by R5, if not sooner.) -R4 PPC - I have not tested this. I rather severely doubt that dynamic -loading will work. (My BeBox is in pieces right now, following a nasty -disk crash.) You may have to disable dynamic loading to get the thing -to compile at all. (use `./Configure` without -d, and say 'no' to -'Build a shared libperl.so'.) +=item R4 PPC + +I have not tested this. I rather severely doubt that dynamic loading +will work. (My BeBox is in pieces right now, following a nasty disk +crash.) You may have to disable dynamic loading to get the thing to +compile at all. (use `./Configure` without -d, and say 'no' to 'Build +a shared libperl.so'.) + +=back + +=head2 Contact Information -CONTACT INFORMATION -------------------- If you have comments, problem reports, or even patches or bugfixes (gasp!) please email me. |