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diff --git a/README.beos b/README.beos index 8c24393d6e..ccd9cbc6c6 100644 --- a/README.beos +++ b/README.beos @@ -1,75 +1,43 @@ -$Id: README.beos,v 1.2 1998/05/02 01:55:04 dogcow Exp dogcow $ - Notes on building perl under BeOS: GENERAL ISSUES -------------- -perl will almost compile straight out of the box with ./Configure -d, but -there are a few gotchas: - -Currently, you have to edit config.sh and remove SDBM_File from the -dynamic_ext= and extensions= lines. SDBM_File does not build properly -at this time. You need to run ./Configure -S after editing config.sh. - -In addition, with mwcc, after doing `make depend`, you need to edit -makefile and x2p/makefile and remove the lines that mention 'Bletch:'. -This is not necessary if you're using gnu cpp. +how to compile perl: -in short: -./Configure -d -remove SDBM_File from config.sh -./Configure -S -make depend -remove Bletch: from makefile and x2p/makefile -make +To compile perl under BeOS R4 x86: -Other than that, perl should build without problems. There are some -technical comments in hints/beos.sh. - -OS RELEASE-SPECIFIC NOTES -------------------------- +`./Configure -d` and hit ^C when it asks you if you want to make changes +to config.sh; -PR1/PPC: -See R3/X86. Same bug, different form. +edit config.sh and do the following: +change d_socket='define' to ='undef'; +remove SDBM, Errno, and Socket from dynamic_ext= and nonxs_ext=; -PR2/PPC: -Signals are somewhat unreliable, but they can work. Use caution. -The POSIX module is still somewhat buggy. +add '#define bool short' to x2p/a2p.h; -R3/X86: -Under R3 x86, there are some serious problems with the math routines -such that numbers are incorrectly printed. This causes problems with -modules that encode their version numbers - in particular, IO.pm will -probably not work properly. This should be fixed under R3.1. +../Configure -S; make; make install -The problem has manifested itself if you see something similar to the -following during the compile: +cd ~/config/lib; ln -s 5.00502/BeOS-BePC/CORE/libperl.so . +(substitute 5.00502 with the appropriate filename) -cc -c -I/usr/local/include -O -DVERSION=\"1.1504\" -DXS_VERSION=\"1.1499999999\" -fpic -I../.. IO.c -(lots of 9's are the indication of the problem.) - -In the meantime, you can use the following workaround: - -make perl -cd ext/IO -cc -c -I/usr/local/include -O -DVERSION=\"1.1504\" -DXS_VERSION=\"1.15\" -fpic -I../.. IO.c -cd .. -make - -(Substitute the correct numbers if IO has been updated.) +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. +(Hopefully, sockets will at least work by R5, if not sooner.) -R3/PPC- -There's math problems, but of a different kind. In particular, -perl -e 'print (240000 - (3e4<<3))' gives a non-zero answer. -I'm looking into this. There is no workaround as yet. Hopefully, -this will be fixed in R3.1. +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'.) CONTACT INFORMATION ------------------- If you have comments, problem reports, or even patches or bugfixes (gasp!) please email me. -1 May 1998 +28 Jan 1999 Tom Spindler -dogcow@merit.edu +dogcow@isi.net |