10 files changed, 99 insertions, 40 deletions
diff --git a/hints/bsd386.sh b/hints/bsd386.sh
index 8303a18990..6a1b8bcd3c 100644
--- a/hints/bsd386.sh
+++ b/hints/bsd386.sh
@@ -29,6 +29,3 @@ case "$osvers" in
 	esac
 	;;
 esac
-
-# BSD/386 has an older <db.h> header file.
-DB_File_cflags='ccflags="$ccflags -DDBXS_HASH_TYPE=int -DDBXS_PREFIX_TYPE=int"'
diff --git a/hints/convexos.sh b/hints/convexos.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f0ce409756
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hints/convexos.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+# convexos.sh
+# Thanks to David Starks-Browning <dstarks@rc.tudelft.nl>
+# Date: Tue, 17 Jan 1995 10:45:03 -0500 (EST)
+# Subject: Re: Hints for ConvexOS 10.2
+# 
+# uname -a output looks like
+#   ConvexOS  xxxx C38xx  10.2 convex
+# Configure may incorrectly assign $3 to $osvers.
+#
+set X $myuname
+shift
+osvers=$4
+# ConvexOS 10.2 uses POSIX process group semantics for getpgrp but
+# BSD semantics for setpgrp.  Perl assumes you don't have such
+# a mixed system, so we undef d_getpgrp.
+#   Andy Dougherty		doughera@lafcol.lafayette.edu
+#
+case "$osvers" in
+10.2)	d_getpgrp='undef' ;;
+esac
diff --git a/hints/dec_osf.sh b/hints/dec_osf.sh
index 1f9d71f5c9..311a786ace 100644
--- a/hints/dec_osf.sh
+++ b/hints/dec_osf.sh
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 # hints/dec_osf.sh
-optimize="-g"
+case "$optimize" in
+'') optimize="-g" ;;
+esac
 ccflags="$ccflags -DSTANDARD_C -DDEBUGGING"
 # Version 1 has problems with -no_archive if only an archive
 # lib is available.
diff --git a/hints/esix4.sh b/hints/esix4.sh
index 6d8f266fd7..c8dec8a8b8 100644
--- a/hints/esix4.sh
+++ b/hints/esix4.sh
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@
 case "$cc" in
 '') cc='/bin/cc'
     test -f $cc || cc='/usr/ccs/bin/cc'
-    cccdlflags='-Kpic'
     ;;
 esac
 ldflags='-L/usr/ccs/lib -L/usr/ucblib'
@@ -15,7 +14,6 @@ ccflags='-I/usr/include -I/usr/ucbinclude'
 libswanted=`echo " $libswanted " | sed -e 's/ malloc / /' `
 d_index='undef'
 d_suidsafe=define
-lddlflags="-G $ldflags"
 usevfork='false'
 if test "$osvers" = "3.0"; then
 	d_gconvert='undef'
@@ -31,9 +29,13 @@ EOM
 	fi
 	rm -f /tmp/esix$$
 fi
-# dlopen routines exist but they don't work with perl.
-# The case statement allows experimenters to override hint with
-# Configure -D usedl
-case "$usedl" in
-'') usedl="$undef" ;;	
-esac
+
+cat <<'EOM'
+
+If you wish to use dynamic linking, you must use 
+	LD_LIBRARY_PATH=`pwd`; export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
+or
+	setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH `pwd`
+before running make.
+
+EOM
diff --git a/hints/freebsd.sh b/hints/freebsd.sh
index 8a46326c6d..4efca6a043 100644
--- a/hints/freebsd.sh
+++ b/hints/freebsd.sh
@@ -24,5 +24,3 @@ case "$osvers" in
 esac
 # Avoid telldir prototype conflict in pp_sys.c  (FreeBSD uses const DIR *)
 pp_sys_cflags='ccflags="$ccflags -DHAS_TELLDIR_PROTOTYPE"'
-# FreeBSD has an older <db.h> header file.
-DB_File_cflags='ccflags="$ccflags -DDBXS_HASH_TYPE=int -DDBXS_PREFIX_TYPE=int"'
diff --git a/hints/irix_5.sh b/hints/irix_5.sh
index dcbcfba5d9..113312b43d 100644
--- a/hints/irix_5.sh
+++ b/hints/irix_5.sh
@@ -2,9 +2,6 @@
 i_time='define'
 ccflags="$ccflags -D_POSIX_SOURCE -ansiposix -D_BSD_TYPES -Olimit 3000"
 lddlflags="-shared"
-case "$usedl" in
-'') usedl='y' ;;
-esac
 set `echo X "$libswanted "|sed -e 's/ socket / /' -e 's/ nsl / /' -e 's/ dl / /'`
 shift
 libswanted="$*"
diff --git a/hints/irix_6.sh b/hints/irix_6.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..79363bbc9f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hints/irix_6.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+# irix_6.sh
+# from Krishna Sethuraman, krishna@mit.edu
+# Date: Wed Jan 18 11:40:08 EST 1995
+# added `-32' to force compilation in 32-bit mode.
+# otherwise, copied from irix_5.sh.
+
+# Perl built with this hints file under IRIX 6.0.1 passes 
+# all tests (`make test').
+
+i_time='define'
+cc="cc -32"
+ccflags="$ccflags -D_POSIX_SOURCE -ansiposix -D_BSD_TYPES -Olimit 3000"
+lddlflags="-32 -shared"
+set `echo X "$libswanted "|sed -e 's/ socket / /' -e 's/ nsl / /' -e 's/ dl /
+/'`
+shift
+libswanted="$*"
+
+# The following might be of interest if you wish to try 64-bit mode:
+# irix_6.sh
+# Krishna Sethuraman, krishna@mit.edu
+# This will build a 64-bit perl 5 executable under IRIX 6.x.
+# I had to remove socket, sun, crypt, nsl, and dl from the 
+# link line because there are no 64-bit libraries with these
+# names (as of IRIX 6.0.1).
+
+# I don't know if this will actually build a fully working perl because I
+# can't tell if the symbols normally provided by these libraries
+# are provided by other libraries which remain on the link line.
+# In any case, perl does build with this file without unresolved
+# symbol complaints.
+
+# i_time='define'
+# ccflags="$ccflags -D_POSIX_SOURCE -ansiposix -D_BSD_TYPES -Olimit 3000"
+# lddlflags="-shared"
+# set `echo X "$libswanted "|sed -e 's/ socket / /' -e 's/ sun / /' -e 's/ crypt / /' -e 's/ nsl / /' -e 's/ dl / /'`
+# shift
+# libswanted="$*"
diff --git a/hints/sunos_4_1.sh b/hints/sunos_4_1.sh
index 070a8e0544..ba469b3e71 100644
--- a/hints/sunos_4_1.sh
+++ b/hints/sunos_4_1.sh
@@ -12,4 +12,3 @@ else # sys5
 fi
 # we don't set gidtype because unistd.h says gid_t getgid() but man
 # page says int getgid() for bsd. utils.c includes unistd.h :-(
-
diff --git a/hints/svr4.sh b/hints/svr4.sh
index c707eb8ccd..f8536a15cb 100644
--- a/hints/svr4.sh
+++ b/hints/svr4.sh
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 # svr4 hints, System V Release 4.x
+# Last modified 1994/12/03 by Tye McQueen, tye@metronet.com
 # Use Configure -Dcc=gcc to use gcc.
 case "$cc" in
 '') cc='/bin/cc'
     test -f $cc || cc='/usr/ccs/bin/cc'
-    cccdlflags='-Kpic'	# Probably needed for dynamic loading
     ;;
 esac
 test -d /usr/local/man || mansrc='none'
@@ -17,17 +17,15 @@ libswanted=`echo $libswanted | tr ' ' '\012' | egrep -v '^(malloc|ucb)$'`
 # -lucb: Defines setreuid() and other routines Perl wants but they don't
 #	 add any/much functionality and often won't ld properly.
 # -lmalloc: Anyone know what problems this caused?
-if [  "" = "$i_ndbm"  -a  ! -f /usr/ucblib/libndbm.a  ]; then
-# UnixWare 1.1 may install /usr/ucbinclude/ndbm.h w/o /usr/ucblib/libndbm.a
-    i_ndbm="$undef"	# so Configure tries to build ext/NDBM_File and ld
-fi	# can't find dbm_open()!  "./Configure -D i_ndbm=define" overrides.
-d_index='undef'
-d_suidsafe=define	# "./Configure -d" can't figure this out
-lddlflags="-G $ldflags"	# Probably needed for dynamic loading
+d_index='undef'		# Even if libucb.a used, use strchr() not index().
+d_suidsafe=define	# "./Configure -d" can't figure this out easilly
 usevfork='false'
-# dlopen routines exist but they don't work with perl.
-# The case statement allows experimenters to override hint with
-# Configure -D usedl
-case "$usedl" in
-'') usedl="$undef" ;;	
-esac
+cat <<'EOM'
+
+If you wish to use dynamic linking, you must use 
+	LD_LIBRARY_PATH=`pwd`; export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
+or
+	setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH `pwd`
+before running make.
+
+EOM
diff --git a/hints/ultrix_4.sh b/hints/ultrix_4.sh
index c7a8c2cfa0..654a6a1e05 100644
--- a/hints/ultrix_4.sh
+++ b/hints/ultrix_4.sh
@@ -1,23 +1,31 @@
-optimize=-g
-tmp=`(uname -a) 2>/dev/null`
-case "$tmp" in
-*RISC*) cat <<EOF
+# hints/ultrix_4.sh
+# Last updated by Andy Dougherty  <doughera@lafcol.lafayette.edu>
+# Wed Nov  2 13:41:14 EST 1994
+#
+# I don't know if -g is really needed.  (AD)
+case "$optimize" in
+'') optimize=-g ;;
+esac
+case "$myuname" in
+*risc*) cat <<EOF
 Note that there is a bug in some versions of NFS on the DECStation that
 may cause utime() to work incorrectly.  If so, regression test io/fs
 may fail if run under NFS.  Ignore the failure.
 EOF
-    case "$tmp" in
+    case "$osvers" in
     *4.2*) d_volatile=undef;;
     esac
-;;
+    ;;
 esac
-case "$tmp" in
+case "$osvers" in
 *4.1*)	ccflags="$ccflags -DLANGUAGE_C -Olimit 2900" 
 	;;
 *4.2*)	ccflags="$ccflags -DLANGUAGE_C -Olimit 2900"
 	libswanted=`echo $libswanted | sed 's/ malloc / /'`
 	;;
-*4.4*)	ccflags="$ccflags -std -Olimit 2900"
+*4.3*)	ccflags="$ccflags -std1 -DLANGUAGE_C -Olimit 2900"
+	;;
+*4*)	ccflags="$ccflags -std -Olimit 2900"
 	ranlib='ranlib'
 	;;
 esac