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authorAndy Dougherty <doughera@lafcol.lafayette.edu>1995-02-27 22:35:59 +0000
committerAndy Dougherty <doughera@lafcol.lafayette.edu>1995-02-27 22:35:59 +0000
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perl5.000 patch.0m: [various fixes, hint file updates and documentation]
This is my patch patch.0m for perl5.000. This patch fixes all remaining problems that I am aware of, and for which I have a solution. It also updates some hint files and documentation. Here's what's new: Configure Protect against spaces in uname -m output (unicos). Look in <stdlib.h> for malloctype and freetype. Check if user has void free() or int free(). Look in linux/signal.h for signal names. MANIFEST MANIFEST.new Two new hint files: cxux.sh and PowerUNIX.sh. Sorted. README Indicate what gets installed and where it usually goes. Thanks to Hallvard B. Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no> for suggesting this. U/Myinit.U Update extliblist comment. U/dist3_051.pat This file contains patches to dist 3 (PL 51) that I used to generate Configure for perl. U/mallocsrc.U Look in <stdlib.h> for malloctype and freetype. Check if user has void free() or int free(). config_h.SH config.H Add Free_t to handle void free() vs. int free(). ext/DynaLoader/README Updated comment. ext/POSIX/POSIX.pm creat() has 2 arguments, not 3 (thanks, Paul). ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs Fix return type of lseek. ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/sdbm.h Add I_STDLIB guard on #include <stdlib.h> ext/util/extliblist Add note indicating this is obsolete. Don't remove it because people might be using it for their own private extensions. hints/PowerUNIX.sh hints/cxux.sh New files. Written by Tom.Horsley@mail.hcsc.com hints/linux.sh Simplified. lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm Typo fixed, only affected aix? malloc.c Allow for possible int free(). perl.h pp_sys.c util.c If the user is not using vfork, move the #define vfork fork util after various #include files. Since vfork() and fork() might have different prototypes, the #define could cause a conflict in system header files. (Reported for 386bsd.) Makefile.SH make realclean will remove h2xs and makeaperl (but leave behind the .SH versions, of course).
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you are not root, you must own the directories in question and you should
ignore any messages about chown not working.
+ make install will also install the following:
+ perl,
+ perl5.nnn where nnn is the current release number. This
+ will be a link to perl.
+ suidperl,
+ sperl5.nnn If you requested setuid emulation.
+ a2p awk-to-perl translator
+ cppstdin This is used by perl -P, if your cc -E can't
+ read from stdin.
+ c2ph, pstruct Scripts for handling C structures in header files.
+ s2p sed-to-perl translator
+ find2perl find-to-perl translator
+ h2xs Converts C .h header files to Perl extensions.
+
+ library files in $privlib and $archlib specified to
+ Configure, usually under /usr/local/lib/perl5/.
+ man pages in the location specified to Configure, usually
+ something like /usr/local/man/man1.
+
+ Perl's *.h header files and the libperl.a library are also
+ installed under $archlib so that you may later build new
+ extensions even if the Perl source is no longer available.
+
+ make install may also offer to install perl in a "standard" location.
+
Most of the documentation in the pod/ directory is also available
in HTML format. Type
cd pod; make html; cd ..