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1 | $Id: README.beos,v 1.2 1998/05/02 01:55:04 dogcow Exp dogcow $ |
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| 3 | Notes on building perl under BeOS: | |
| 4 | ||
| 5 | GENERAL ISSUES | |
| 6 | -------------- | |
| 7 | perl will almost compile straight out of the box with ./Configure -d, but | |
| 8 | there are a few gotchas: | |
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| 10 | Currently, you have to edit config.sh and remove SDBM_File from the | |
| 11 | dynamic_ext= and extensions= lines. SDBM_File does not build properly | |
| 12 | at this time. You need to run ./Configure -S after editing config.sh. | |
| 13 | ||
| 14 | In addition, with mwcc, after doing `make depend`, you need to edit | |
| 15 | makefile and x2p/makefile and remove the lines that mention 'Bletch:'. | |
| 16 | This is not necessary if you're using gnu cpp. | |
| 17 | ||
| 18 | in short: | |
| 19 | ./Configure -d | |
| 20 | remove SDBM_File from config.sh | |
| 21 | ./Configure -S | |
| 22 | make depend | |
| 23 | remove Bletch: from makefile and x2p/makefile | |
| 24 | make | |
| 25 | ||
| 26 | Other than that, perl should build without problems. There are some | |
| 27 | technical comments in hints/beos.sh. | |
| 28 | ||
| 29 | OS RELEASE-SPECIFIC NOTES | |
| 30 | ------------------------- | |
| 31 | ||
| 32 | PR1/PPC: | |
| 33 | See R3/X86. Same bug, different form. | |
| 34 | ||
| 35 | PR2/PPC: | |
| 36 | Signals are somewhat unreliable, but they can work. Use caution. | |
| 37 | The POSIX module is still somewhat buggy. | |
| 38 | ||
| 39 | R3/X86: | |
| 40 | Under R3 x86, there are some serious problems with the math routines | |
| 41 | such that numbers are incorrectly printed. This causes problems with | |
| 42 | modules that encode their version numbers - in particular, IO.pm will | |
| 43 | probably not work properly. This should be fixed under R3.1. | |
| 44 | ||
| 45 | The problem has manifested itself if you see something similar to the | |
| 46 | following during the compile: | |
| 47 | ||
| 48 | cc -c -I/usr/local/include -O -DVERSION=\"1.1504\" -DXS_VERSION=\"1.1499999999\" -fpic -I../.. IO.c | |
| 49 | (lots of 9's are the indication of the problem.) | |
| 50 | ||
| 51 | In the meantime, you can use the following workaround: | |
| 52 | ||
| 53 | make perl | |
| 54 | cd ext/IO | |
| 55 | cc -c -I/usr/local/include -O -DVERSION=\"1.1504\" -DXS_VERSION=\"1.15\" -fpic -I../.. IO.c | |
| 56 | cd .. | |
| 57 | make | |
| 58 | ||
| 59 | (Substitute the correct numbers if IO has been updated.) | |
| 60 | ||
| 61 | R3/PPC- | |
| 62 | There's math problems, but of a different kind. In particular, | |
| 63 | perl -e 'print (240000 - (3e4<<3))' gives a non-zero answer. | |
| 64 | I'm looking into this. There is no workaround as yet. Hopefully, | |
| 65 | this will be fixed in R3.1. | |
| 66 | ||
| 67 | CONTACT INFORMATION | |
| 68 | ------------------- | |
| 69 | If you have comments, problem reports, or even patches or bugfixes (gasp!) | |
| 70 | please email me. | |
| 71 | ||
| 72 | 1 May 1998 | |
| 73 | Tom Spindler | |
| 74 | dogcow@merit.edu | |
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