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0a753a76 | 1 | If you read this file _as_is_, just ignore the funny characters you |
2 | see. It is written in the POD format (see perlpod manpage) which is | |
3 | specially designed to be readable as is. | |
4 | ||
5 | =head1 NAME | |
6 | ||
4375e838 | 7 | perlamiga - Perl under Amiga OS (possibly very outdated information) |
0a753a76 | 8 | |
9 | =head1 SYNOPSIS | |
10 | ||
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11 | NOTE: No one has reported building Perl on the Amiga in a long |
12 | time. The following information is highly unlikely to be correct. | |
13 | If you would like to help the Amiga port to stay current, see: | |
14 | ||
15 | http://us.aminet.net/aminet/dirs/dev_gg.html | |
16 | ||
17 | for Amiga resources and information. | |
18 | ||
0a753a76 | 19 | One can read this document in the following formats: |
20 | ||
21 | man perlamiga | |
22 | multiview perlamiga.guide | |
23 | ||
24 | to list some (not all may be available simultaneously), or it may | |
25 | be read I<as is>: either as F<README.amiga>, or F<pod/perlamiga.pod>. | |
26 | ||
27 | =cut | |
28 | ||
29 | Contents | |
30 | ||
31 | perlamiga - Perl under Amiga OS | |
32 | ||
33 | NAME | |
34 | SYNOPSIS | |
35 | DESCRIPTION | |
36 | - Prerequisites | |
37 | - Starting Perl programs under AmigaOS | |
b971f6e4 | 38 | - Shortcomings of Perl under AmigaOS |
0a753a76 | 39 | INSTALLATION |
40 | Accessing documentation | |
41 | - Manpages | |
42 | - HTML | |
43 | - GNU info files | |
44 | - LaTeX docs | |
45 | BUILD | |
46 | - Prerequisites | |
47 | - Getting the perl source | |
48 | - Application of the patches | |
49 | - Making | |
50 | - Testing | |
51 | - Installing the built perl | |
52 | AUTHOR | |
53 | SEE ALSO | |
54 | ||
55 | =head1 DESCRIPTION | |
56 | ||
57 | =head2 Prerequisites | |
58 | ||
59 | =over 6 | |
60 | ||
61 | =item B<Unix emulation for AmigaOS: ixemul.library> | |
62 | ||
63 | You need the Unix emulation for AmigaOS, whose most important part is | |
64 | B<ixemul.library>. For a minimum setup, get the following archives from | |
65 | ftp://ftp.ninemoons.com/pub/ade/current or a mirror: | |
66 | ||
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67 | ixemul-46.0-bin.lha |
68 | ixemul-46.0-env-bin.lha | |
0a753a76 | 69 | pdksh-4.9-bin.lha |
70 | ADE-misc-bin.lha | |
71 | ||
72 | Note that there might be newer versions available by the time you read | |
73 | this. | |
74 | ||
75 | Note also that this is a minimum setup; you might want to add other | |
76 | packages of B<ADE> (the I<Amiga Developers Environment>). | |
77 | ||
78 | =item B<Version of Amiga OS> | |
79 | ||
80 | You need at the very least AmigaOS version 2.0. Recommended is version 3.1. | |
81 | ||
82 | =back | |
83 | ||
84 | =head2 Starting Perl programs under AmigaOS | |
85 | ||
86 | Start your Perl program F<foo> with arguments C<arg1 arg2 arg3> the | |
87 | same way as on any other platform, by | |
88 | ||
89 | perl foo arg1 arg2 arg3 | |
90 | ||
91 | If you want to specify perl options C<-my_opts> to the perl itself (as | |
92 | opposed to to your program), use | |
93 | ||
94 | perl -my_opts foo arg1 arg2 arg3 | |
95 | ||
96 | Alternately, you can try to get a replacement for the system's B<Execute> | |
97 | command that honors the #!/usr/bin/perl syntax in scripts and set the s-Bit | |
98 | of your scripts. Then you can invoke your scripts like under UNIX with | |
99 | ||
100 | foo arg1 arg2 arg3 | |
101 | ||
102 | (Note that having *nixish full path to perl F</usr/bin/perl> is not | |
103 | necessary, F<perl> would be enough, but having full path would make it | |
104 | easier to use your script under *nix.) | |
105 | ||
b971f6e4 | 106 | =head2 Shortcomings of Perl under AmigaOS |
107 | ||
108 | Perl under AmigaOS lacks some features of perl under UNIX because of | |
109 | deficiencies in the UNIX-emulation, most notably: | |
110 | ||
111 | =over 6 | |
112 | ||
113 | =item fork() | |
114 | ||
115 | =item some features of the UNIX filesystem regarding link count and file dates | |
116 | ||
117 | =item inplace operation (the -i switch) without backup file | |
118 | ||
119 | =item umask() works, but the correct permissions are only set when the file is | |
120 | finally close()d | |
0498d68d | 121 | |
b971f6e4 | 122 | =back |
123 | ||
0a753a76 | 124 | =head1 INSTALLATION |
125 | ||
126 | Change to the installation directory (most probably ADE:), and | |
127 | extract the binary distribution: | |
128 | ||
129 | lha -mraxe x perl-5.003-bin.lha | |
130 | ||
131 | or | |
132 | ||
133 | tar xvzpf perl-5.003-bin.tgz | |
134 | ||
135 | (Of course you need lha or tar and gunzip for this.) | |
136 | ||
137 | For installation of the Unix emulation, read the appropriate docs. | |
138 | ||
139 | =head1 Accessing documentation | |
140 | ||
141 | =head2 Manpages | |
142 | ||
143 | If you have C<man> installed on your system, and you installed perl | |
144 | manpages, use something like this: | |
145 | ||
146 | man perlfunc | |
147 | man less | |
148 | man ExtUtils.MakeMaker | |
149 | ||
150 | to access documentation for different components of Perl. Start with | |
151 | ||
152 | man perl | |
153 | ||
154 | Note: You have to modify your man.conf file to search for manpages | |
155 | in the /ade/lib/perl5/man/man3 directory, or the man pages for the | |
156 | perl library will not be found. | |
157 | ||
158 | Note that dot (F<.>) is used as a package separator for documentation | |
159 | for packages, and as usual, sometimes you need to give the section - C<3> | |
160 | above - to avoid shadowing by the I<less(1) manpage>. | |
161 | ||
162 | ||
163 | =head2 B<HTML> | |
164 | ||
165 | If you have some WWW browser available, you can build B<HTML> docs. | |
166 | Cd to directory with F<.pod> files, and do like this | |
167 | ||
168 | cd /ade/lib/perl5/pod | |
169 | pod2html | |
170 | ||
171 | After this you can direct your browser the file F<perl.html> in this | |
172 | directory, and go ahead with reading docs. | |
173 | ||
174 | Alternatively you may be able to get these docs prebuilt from C<CPAN>. | |
175 | ||
176 | =head2 B<GNU> C<info> files | |
177 | ||
178 | Users of C<Emacs> would appreciate it very much, especially with | |
179 | C<CPerl> mode loaded. You need to get latest C<pod2info> from C<CPAN>, | |
180 | or, alternately, prebuilt info pages. | |
181 | ||
182 | =head2 C<LaTeX> docs | |
183 | ||
184 | can be constructed using C<pod2latex>. | |
185 | ||
186 | =head1 BUILD | |
187 | ||
188 | Here we discuss how to build Perl under AmigaOS. | |
189 | ||
190 | =head2 Prerequisites | |
191 | ||
192 | You need to have the latest B<ADE> (Amiga Developers Environment) | |
193 | from ftp://ftp.ninemoons.com/pub/ade/current. | |
194 | Also, you need a lot of free memory, probably at least 8MB. | |
195 | ||
196 | =head2 Getting the perl source | |
197 | ||
198 | You can either get the latest perl-for-amiga source from Ninemoons | |
199 | and extract it with: | |
200 | ||
201 | tar xvzpf perl-5.004-src.tgz | |
202 | ||
203 | or get the official source from CPAN: | |
204 | ||
205 | http://www.perl.com/CPAN/src/5.0 | |
206 | ||
207 | Extract it like this | |
208 | ||
209 | tar xvzpf perl5.004.tar.gz | |
210 | ||
211 | You will see a message about errors while extracting F<Configure>. This | |
212 | is normal and expected. (There is a conflict with a similarly-named file | |
213 | F<configure>, but it causes no harm.) | |
214 | ||
215 | =head2 Making | |
216 | ||
217 | sh configure.gnu --prefix=/ade | |
218 | ||
219 | Now | |
220 | ||
221 | make | |
222 | ||
223 | =head2 Testing | |
224 | ||
225 | Now run | |
226 | ||
227 | make test | |
228 | ||
b971f6e4 | 229 | Some tests will be skipped because they need the fork() function: |
0a753a76 | 230 | |
b971f6e4 | 231 | F<io/pipe.t>, F<op/fork.t>, F<lib/filehand.t>, F<lib/open2.t>, F<lib/open3.t>, |
232 | F<lib/io_pipe.t>, F<lib/io_sock.t> | |
0a753a76 | 233 | |
234 | =head2 Installing the built perl | |
235 | ||
236 | Run | |
237 | ||
238 | make install | |
239 | ||
240 | =head1 AUTHOR | |
241 | ||
242 | Norbert Pueschel, pueschel@imsdd.meb.uni-bonn.de | |
243 | ||
244 | =head1 SEE ALSO | |
245 | ||
246 | perl(1). | |
247 | ||
248 | =cut |