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1aef975c 1# hints/linux.sh
a0d0e21e 2# Original version by rsanders
1fc4cb55 3# Additional support by Kenneth Albanowski <kjahds@kjahds.com>
1aef975c 4#
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5# ELF support by H.J. Lu <hjl@nynexst.com>
6# Additional info from Nigel Head <nhead@ESOC.bitnet>
7# and Kenneth Albanowski <kjahds@kjahds.com>
1aef975c 8#
232e078e 9# Consolidated by Andy Dougherty <doughera@lafcol.lafayette.edu>
1fc4cb55 10#
9bed9d38 11# Updated Thu Feb 8 11:56:10 EST 1996
ef0c9946 12
13# Updated Thu May 30 10:50:22 EDT 1996 by <doughera@lafcol.lafayette.edu>
14
15# Updated Fri Jun 21 11:07:54 EDT 1996
16# NDBM support for ELF renabled by <kjahds@kjahds.com>
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18# No version of Linux supports setuid scripts.
19d_suidsafe='undef'
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21# Debian and Red Hat, and perhaps other vendors, provide both runtime and
22# development packages for some libraries. The runtime packages contain shared
23# libraries with version information in their names (e.g., libgdbm.so.1.7.3);
24# the development packages supplement this with versionless shared libraries
25# (e.g., libgdbm.so).
26#
27# If you want to link against such a library, you must install the development
28# version of the package.
29#
30# These packages use a -dev naming convention in both Debian and Red Hat:
31# libgdbmg1 (non-development version of GNU libc 2-linked GDBM library)
32# libgdbmg1-dev (development version of GNU libc 2-linked GDBM library)
33# So make sure that for any libraries you wish to link Perl with under
34# Debian or Red Hat you have the -dev packages installed.
35#
36# Some operating systems (e.g., Solaris 2.6) will link to a versioned shared
37# library implicitly. For example, on Solaris, `ld foo.o -lgdbm' will find an
38# appropriate version of libgdbm, if one is available; Linux, however, doesn't
39# do the implicit mapping.
40ignore_versioned_solibs='y'
41
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42# perl goes into the /usr tree. See the Filesystem Standard
43# available via anonymous FTP at tsx-11.mit.edu in
44# /pub/linux/docs/linux-standards/fsstnd.
16d20bd9 45# Allow a command line override, e.g. Configure -Dprefix=/foo/bar
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46case "$prefix" in
47'') prefix='/usr' ;;
48esac
1fc4cb55 49
16d20bd9 50# gcc-2.6.3 defines _G_HAVE_BOOL to 1, but doesn't actually supply bool.
4bf4dbb3 51ccflags="-Dbool=char -DHAS_BOOL $ccflags"
52
53# BSD compatability library no longer needed
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54# 'kaffe' has a /usr/lib/libnet.so which is not at all relevent for perl.
55set `echo X "$libswanted "| sed -e 's/ bsd / /' -e 's/ net / /'`
4bf4dbb3 56shift
57libswanted="$*"
1fc4cb55 58
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59# If you have glibc, then report the version for ./myconfig bug reporting.
60# (Configure doesn't need to know the specific version since it just uses
61# gcc to load the library for all tests.)
62# Is this sufficiently robust for libc5 systems as well as
63# glibc-2.1.x systems?
64# We don't use __GLIBC__ and __GLIBC_MINOR__ because they
65# are insufficiently precise to distinguish things like
66# libc-2.0.6 and libc-2.0.7.
67if test -L /lib/libc.so.6; then
68 libc=`ls -l /lib/libc.so.6 | awk '{print $NF}'`
69 libc=/lib/$libc
70fi
71
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72# Configure may fail to find lstat() since it's a static/inline
73# function in <sys/stat.h>.
74d_lstat=define
1aef975c 75
16d20bd9 76# Explanation?
c07a80fd 77case "$usemymalloc" in
78'') usemymalloc='n' ;;
79esac
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80
81case "$optimize" in
82'') optimize='-O2' ;;
83esac
84
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85# Are we using ELF? Thanks to Kenneth Albanowski <kjahds@kjahds.com>
86# for this test.
87cat >try.c <<'EOM'
88/* Test for whether ELF binaries are produced */
89#include <fcntl.h>
90#include <stdlib.h>
91main() {
92 char buffer[4];
93 int i=open("a.out",O_RDONLY);
94 if(i==-1)
95 exit(1); /* fail */
96 if(read(i,&buffer[0],4)<4)
97 exit(1); /* fail */
98 if(buffer[0] != 127 || buffer[1] != 'E' ||
99 buffer[2] != 'L' || buffer[3] != 'F')
100 exit(1); /* fail */
101 exit(0); /* succeed (yes, it's ELF) */
102}
103EOM
f0b7e567 104if ${cc:-gcc} try.c >/dev/null 2>&1 && ./a.out; then
ef0c9946 105 cat <<'EOM' >&4
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106
107You appear to have ELF support. I'll try to use it for dynamic loading.
ef0c9946 108If dynamic loading doesn't work, read hints/linux.sh for further information.
232e078e 109EOM
ef0c9946 110
111#For RedHat Linux 3.0.3, you may need to fetch
112# ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat-3.0.3/i386/updates/RPMS/ld.so-1.7.14-3.i386.rpm
113#
114
232e078e 115else
ef0c9946 116 cat <<'EOM' >&4
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117
118You don't have an ELF gcc. I will use dld if possible. If you are
119using a version of DLD earlier than 3.2.6, or don't have it at all, you
120should probably upgrade. If you are forced to use 3.2.4, you should
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121uncomment a couple of lines in hints/linux.sh and restart Configure so
122that shared libraries will be disallowed.
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123
124EOM
232e078e 125 lddlflags="-r $lddlflags"
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126 # These empty values are so that Configure doesn't put in the
127 # Linux ELF values.
128 ccdlflags=' '
129 cccdlflags=' '
c07a80fd 130 ccflags="-DOVR_DBL_DIG=14 $ccflags"
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131 so='sa'
132 dlext='o'
a5f75d66 133 nm_so_opt=' '
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134 ## If you are using DLD 3.2.4 which does not support shared libs,
135 ## uncomment the next two lines:
136 #ldflags="-static"
137 #so='none'
ef0c9946 138
139 # In addition, on some systems there is a problem with perl and NDBM
140 # which causes AnyDBM and NDBM_File to lock up. This is evidenced
141 # in the tests as AnyDBM just freezing. Apparently, this only
142 # happens on a.out systems, so we disable NDBM for all a.out linux
143 # systems. If someone can suggest a more robust test
144 # that would be appreciated.
145 #
146 # More info:
147 # Date: Wed, 7 Feb 1996 03:21:04 +0900
148 # From: Jeffrey Friedl <jfriedl@nff.ncl.omron.co.jp>
149 #
150 # I tried compiling with DBM support and sure enough things locked up
151 # just as advertised. Checking into it, I found that the lockup was
152 # during the call to dbm_open. Not *in* dbm_open -- but between the call
153 # to and the jump into.
154 #
155 # To make a long story short, making sure that the *.a and *.sa pairs of
156 # /usr/lib/lib{m,db,gdbm}.{a,sa}
157 # were perfectly in sync took care of it.
158 #
159 # This will generate a harmless Whoa There! message
160 case "$d_dbm_open" in
161 '') cat <<'EOM' >&4
162
163Disabling ndbm. This will generate a Whoa There message in Configure.
164Read hints/linux.sh for further information.
165EOM
166 # You can override this with Configure -Dd_dbm_open
167 d_dbm_open=undef
168 ;;
169 esac
232e078e 170fi
a0d0e21e 171
c2960299 172rm -f try.c a.out
16d20bd9 173
c2960299 174if /bin/bash -c exit; then
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175 echo ''
176 echo 'You appear to have a working bash. Good.'
c2960299 177else
ef0c9946 178 cat << 'EOM' >&4
a0d0e21e 179
ef0c9946 180*********************** Warning! *********************
181It would appear you have a defective bash shell installed. This is likely to
182give you a failure of op/exec test #5 during the test phase of the build,
183Upgrading to a recent version (1.14.4 or later) should fix the problem.
184******************************************************
a0d0e21e 185EOM
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186
187fi
16d20bd9 188
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189# On SPARClinux,
190# The following csh consistently coredumped in the test directory
191# "/home/mikedlr/perl5.003_94/t", though not most other directories.
192
193#Name : csh Distribution: Red Hat Linux (Rembrandt)
194#Version : 5.2.6 Vendor: Red Hat Software
195#Release : 3 Build Date: Fri May 24 19:42:14 1996
196#Install date: Thu Jul 11 16:20:14 1996 Build Host: itchy.redhat.com
197#Group : Shells Source RPM: csh-5.2.6-3.src.rpm
198#Size : 184417
199#Description : BSD c-shell
200
201# For this reason I suggest using the much bug-fixed tcsh for globbing
202# where available.
203
204if [ ! "`csh -c 'echo $version' 2>/dev/null`" ]
205then
46fc3d4c 206 echo 'Real csh found (might break); looking for tcsh ...'
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207 # Use ./UU/loc to find tcsh. (We no longer run in the hints/ directory)
208 if xxx=`./UU/loc tcsh blurfl $pth`; $test -f "$xxx"; then
46fc3d4c 209 echo "Found tcsh. I'll use it for globbing."
210 # We can't change Configure's setting of $csh, due to the way
211 # Configure handles $d_portable and commands found in $loclist.
212 # We can set the value for CSH in config.h by setting full_csh.
213 full_csh=$xxx
214 else
215 echo "Couldn't find tcsh. BEWARE: GLOBBING MIGHT BE BROKEN."
216 fi
284c50cc 217else
46fc3d4c 218 echo 'Your csh is really tcsh. Good.'
284c50cc 219fi
dc66995c 220
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221# Shimpei Yamashita <shimpei@socrates.patnet.caltech.edu>
222# Message-Id: <33EF1634.B36B6500@pobox.com>
223#
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224# The DR2 of MkLinux (osname=linux,archname=ppc-linux) may need
225# special flags passed in order for dynamic loading to work.
92526645 226# instead of the recommended:
17ff8a05 227#
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228# ccdlflags='-rdynamic'
229#
230# it should be:
231# ccdlflags='-Wl,-E'
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232#
233# So if your DR2 (DR3 came out summer 1998, consider upgrading)
234# has problems with dynamic loading, uncomment the
235# following three lines, make distclean, and re-Configure:
236#case "`uname -r | sed 's/^[0-9.-]*//'``arch`" in
237#'osfmach3ppc') ccdlflags='-Wl,-E' ;;
238#esac
92526645 239
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240# This script UU/usethreads.cbu will get 'called-back' by Configure
241# after it has prompted the user for whether to use threads.
242cat > UU/usethreads.cbu <<'EOCBU'
243case "$usethreads" in
244$define|true|[yY]*)
245 ccflags="-D_REENTRANT $ccflags"
246 set `echo X "$libswanted "| sed -e 's/ c / pthread c /'`
247 shift
248 libswanted="$*"
249 ;;
250esac
251EOCBU