Makefile.shlib system, not MakeMaker.

in interfaces/perl5 a brief while ago.

Also, since building PL/Perl without a shared libperl actually works on
some platforms we can enable it there to get some development happening.
I've only checked off linux right now, but others should be added in the
future.

broken, and its impossible to make a shared library when compiling with
both CCDLFLAGS and LDDLFAGS, you have to pick one or the other.

Alex Pilosov

modifiable repositories, I have a clean untrusted plperl patch to offer
you :)

Highlights:
* There's one perl interpreter used for both trusted and untrusted
procedures. I do think its unnecessary to keep two perl
interpreters around. If someone can break out from trusted "Safe" perl
mode, well, they can do what they want already. If someone disagrees, I
can change this.

* Opcode is not statically loaded anymore. Instead, we load Dynaloader,
which then can grab Opcode (and anything else you can 'use') on its own.

* Checked to work on FreeBSD 4.3 + perl 5.5.3 , OpenBSD 2.8 + perl5.6.1,
RedHat 6.2 + perl 5.5.3

* Uses ExtUtils::Embed to find what options are necessary to link with
perl shared libraries

* createlang is also updated, it can create untrusted perl using 'plperlu'

* Example script (assuming you have Mail::Sendmail installed):
create function foo() returns text as '
         use Mail::Sendmail;

         %mail = ( To      => q(you@yourname.com),
                   From    => q(me@here.com),
                   Message => "This is a very short message"
                  );
         sendmail(%mail) or die $Mail::Sendmail::error;
return          "OK. Log says:\n", $Mail::Sendmail::log;
' language 'plperlu';

Alex Pilosov

that now functions as a wrapper around the MakeMaker stuff. It might
even behave sensically when we have separate build dirs. Same for plperl,
which of course still doesn't work very well. Made sure that plperl
respects the choice of --libdir.

Added --with-python to automatically build and install the Python interface.
Works similarly to the Perl5 stuff.

Moved the burden of the distclean targets lower down into the source tree.
Eventually, each make file should have its own.

Added automatic remaking of makefiles and configure. Currently only for the
top-level because of a bug(?) in Autoconf. Use GNU `missing' to work around
missing autoconf and aclocal. Start factoring out macros into their own
config/*.m4 files to increase readability and organization.

the src/include tree, so that -I backend is no longer necessary anywhere.
Also, clean up some bit rot in contrib tree.

--with-includes) to makefiles for pltcl and plperl, so that these
switches will be used even though we do not want other top-level
CFLAGS.  Ain't it fun trying to support multiple-compiler platforms?

Not a big step forward, but it's something...