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| author | Perl 5 Porters <perl5-porters@africa.nicoh.com> | 1997-02-22 02:41:53 +1200 |
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| committer | Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net> | 1997-02-22 02:41:53 +1200 |
| commit | b971f6e4f6780f32fa16abecd87989a37436a193 (patch) | |
| tree | 994f413811bce803c47f599cc156e4beb08184e4 /README.amiga | |
| parent | 1defb83ec18f7f520caf4152c2f5c63dbf3cc155 (diff) | |
| download | perl-b971f6e4f6780f32fa16abecd87989a37436a193.tar.gz | |
[inseparable changes from match from perl5.003_28 to perl-5.003_90]
BUILD PROCESS
Subject: Re: ccdlflags don't quite work
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 16:07:07 -0500 (EST)
From: Andy Dougherty <doughera@fractal.phys.lafayette.edu>
Files: Configure
Msg-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.95q.970224160630.5700E-100000@fractal.lafayette.e
(applied based on p5p patch as commit bc75e68b7b49a5ac07dc839aec7ca05eba51175f)
Subject: Use $ccflags, $ldflags, $libs when determining $randbits
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: Configure
Subject: 'installperl -v' doesn't do enough
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 08:42:59 -0500
From: Spider Boardman <spider@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
Files: installperl
Msg-ID: <199702241342.IAA25945@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
(applied based on p5p patch as commit 7287d43f85a3731984c0e0ef1f20e1515b4140f2)
Subject: installperl breaks running system (for a while)
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 09:12:11 -0500
From: Spider Boardman <spider@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
Files: installperl
Msg-ID: <199702241412.JAA11829@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
(applied based on p5p patch as commit ec2a3d87ba26a9586ad981051a949403027c147a)
CORE PORTABILITY
Subject: Digital UNIX and 3_28
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 16:27:19 +0200 (EET)
From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
Files: Configure MANIFEST ext/NDBM_File/hints/dec_osf.pl ext/ODBM_File/hints/dec_osf.pl hints/dec_osf.sh
Msg-ID: <199702231427.QAA13807@alpha.hut.fi>
(applied based on p5p patch as commit 58c0852f6968d0b4520a03e22a56226185ab78c6)
Subject: AmigaOS patches to 5.003_28
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 1997 18:08:02 +0100
From: "Norbert Pueschel" <pueschel@imsdd.meb.uni-bonn.de>
Files: README.amiga hints/amigaos.sh t/io/fs.t t/lib/anydbm.t t/lib/db-btree.t t/lib/db-hash.t t/lib/db-recno.t t/lib/gdbm.t t/lib/ndbm.t t/lib/odbm.t t/lib/sdbm.t t/op/magic.t t/op/stat.t
Msg-ID: <77724759@Armageddon.meb.uni-bonn.de>
(applied based on p5p patch as commit b8e6d11c134e93a7795379ceb62b7f950607c667)
TESTS
Subject: Don't use <*> where readdir() will do
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: t/op/stat.t
Subject: Allow for $^X to be 'miniperl'
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 16:22:45 +0100
From: Dominic Dunlop <domo@slipper.ip.lu>
Files: t/op/magic.t
private-msgid: <v03020903af360f31aced@[194.51.248.65]>
Diffstat (limited to 'README.amiga')
| -rw-r--r-- | README.amiga | 41 |
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 19 deletions
diff --git a/README.amiga b/README.amiga index 110f9cf696..e4d4071188 100644 --- a/README.amiga +++ b/README.amiga @@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ Contents DESCRIPTION - Prerequisites - Starting Perl programs under AmigaOS + - Shortcomings of Perl under AmigaOS INSTALLATION Accessing documentation - Manpages @@ -94,6 +95,24 @@ of your scripts. Then you can invoke your scripts like under UNIX with necessary, F<perl> would be enough, but having full path would make it easier to use your script under *nix.) +=head2 Shortcomings of Perl under AmigaOS + +Perl under AmigaOS lacks some features of perl under UNIX because of +deficiencies in the UNIX-emulation, most notably: + +=over 6 + +=item fork() + +=item some features of the UNIX filesystem regarding link count and file dates + +=item inplace operation (the -i switch) without backup file + +=item umask() works, but the correct permissions are only set when the file is + finally close()d + +=back + =head1 INSTALLATION Change to the installation directory (most probably ADE:), and @@ -199,26 +218,10 @@ Now run make test -Some tests will fail. Here is which, and why: - -=over 8 - -=item F<io/fs.t>, F<op/stat.t>, F<lib/*dbm.t>, F<lib/db-*.t> - -Check I<file system> operations. Failures result from the inability to -emulate some Unixisms with the standard Amiga filesystem. - -=item F<io/pipe.t>, F<op/fork.t>, F<lib/filehand.t>, F<lib/open2.t>, - F<lib/open3.t>, F<lib/io_pipe.t>, F<lib/io_sock.t> +Some tests will be skipped because they need the fork() function: -These tests will be skipped because they use the fork() function, which is not -supported under AmigaOS. - -=item F<op/magic.t> - -The ixemul.library doesn't set the expected values for $0 and $^X. - -=back +F<io/pipe.t>, F<op/fork.t>, F<lib/filehand.t>, F<lib/open2.t>, F<lib/open3.t>, +F<lib/io_pipe.t>, F<lib/io_sock.t> =head2 Installing the built perl |