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diff --git a/README.bs2000 b/README.bs2000 index 566ba212de..1dad5ae7c1 100644 --- a/README.bs2000 +++ b/README.bs2000 @@ -20,12 +20,12 @@ and testing it with 3.1A and are currently using Version V4.0A. You may need the following GNU programs in order to install perl: -=head2 gzip +=head2 gzip on BS2000 We used version 1.2.4, which could be installed out of the box with one failure during 'make check'. -=head2 bison +=head2 bison on BS2000 The yacc coming with BS2000 POSIX didn't work for us. So we had to use bison. We had to make a few changes to perl in order to use the @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ pure (reentrant) parser of bison. We used version 1.25, but we had to add a few changes due to EBCDIC. See below for more details concerning yacc. -=head2 Unpacking +=head2 Unpacking Perl Distribution on BS2000 To extract an ASCII tar archive on BS2000 POSIX you need an ASCII filesystem (we used the mountpoint /usr/local/ascii for this). Now @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ cd /usr/local/src IO_CONVERSION=YES cp -r /usr/local/ascii/perl5.005_02 ./ -=head2 Compiling +=head2 Compiling Perl on BS2000 There is a "hints" file for BS2000 called hints.posix-bc (because posix-bc is the OS name given by `uname`) that specifies the correct @@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ ln -s /usr/bin/yacc /usr/local/bin/byacc We build perl using GNU make. We tried the native make once and it worked too. -=head2 Testing +=head2 Testing Perl on BS2000 We still got a few errors during C<make test>. Some of them are the result of using bison. Bison prints I<parser error> instead of I<syntax @@ -120,13 +120,13 @@ lib/complex.........FAILED tests 267, 487 lib/dumper..........FAILED tests 43, 45 Failed 11/231 test scripts, 95.24% okay. 57/10595 subtests failed, 99.46% okay. -=head2 Install +=head2 Installing Perl on BS2000 We have no nroff on BS2000 POSIX (yet), so we ignored any errors while installing the documentation. -=head2 Using Perl in the Posix-Shell +=head2 Using Perl in the Posix-Shell of BS2000 BS2000 POSIX doesn't support the shebang notation (C<#!/usr/local/bin/perl>), so you have to use the following lines @@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ checkfiles.pl %*.c>). Read your C/C++ manual for additional possibilities of the commandline prompt (look for PARAMETER-PROMPTING). -=head2 Floating point anomalies +=head2 Floating point anomalies on BS2000 There appears to be a bug in the floating point implementation on BS2000 POSIX systems such that calling int() on the product of a number and a small |