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| author | Dominic Dunlop <domo@computer.org> | 2004-03-11 11:34:01 +0100 |
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| committer | H.Merijn Brand <h.m.brand@xs4all.nl> | 2004-03-11 10:08:17 +0000 |
| commit | d0c3e6d694ba2b6651c767fbceed20be69dd8594 (patch) | |
| tree | f9218a50ea35368716c91f7a558ab084d56193ea /README.machten | |
| parent | ebc91362714bda54cacd3ec2407cd23a2dc04902 (diff) | |
| download | perl-d0c3e6d694ba2b6651c767fbceed20be69dd8594.tar.gz | |
Re: [PATCH] Re: Proposal to remove support for MachTen
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diff --git a/README.machten b/README.machten index a15b90790b..f2628fd00c 100644 --- a/README.machten +++ b/README.machten @@ -11,9 +11,36 @@ README.machten - Perl version 5 on Power MachTen systems This document describes how to build Perl 5 on Power MachTen systems, and discusses a few wrinkles in the implementation. -=head2 Compiling Perl 5 on MachTen - -To compile perl under MachTen 4.1.4 (and probably earlier versions): +=head2 Perl version 5.8.x and greater not supported + +B<Power MachTen is not supported by versions of Perl later than +5.6.x.> +If you wish to build a version from the 5.6 track, please +obtain a source distribution from the archive at +L<http://cpan.org/src/5.0/> and follow the instructions in its +README.machten file. + +MachTen is no longer supported by its developers, Tenon Intersystems. +A UNIX environment hosted on Mac OS Classic, MachTen has been +superseded by Mac OS X and by BSD and Linux implementations for Macintosh +hardware. +The final version of Power MachTen, 4.1.4, lacks many features found in +modern implementations of UNIX, and has a number of bugs. +These shortcomings prevent recent versions of Perl from being able to use +extensions on MachTen, and cause numerous test suite failures in the +perl core. + +In September 2003, a discussion on the MachTen mailing list determined +that there was no interest in making a later version of Perl build +successfully on MachTen. +Consequently, support for building Perl under MachTen has been suppressed +in Perl distributions published after February 2004. +The hints file, F<hints/machten.sh>, remains a part of the +distributions for reference purposes. + +=head2 Compiling Perl 5.6.x on MachTen + +To compile perl 5.6.x under MachTen 4.1.4 (and probably earlier versions): ./Configure -de make @@ -86,4 +113,4 @@ Dominic Dunlop <domo@computer.org> =head1 DATE -Version 1.0.1 2000-03-27 +Version 1.1.0 2004-02-13 |