This file documents the changes made to port Perl to the Stratus VOS operating system. For 5.9.0: Removed support for building (mini) perl on VOS using custom VOS command macros. Henceforth, perl must be built using the native Configure script. For 5.8.0: Updated "config.alpha.def", "config.ga.def", "build.cm", and "install_perl.cm" to use directory naming conventions that are closer to the perl standard directory names. Added "compile_full_perl.cm", "configure_full_perl.sh" and "make_full_perl.sh" for building full perl. For the first time, full perl can now be built on VOS using its native Configure script and makefiles. See README.vos for details. For 5.7.1: Updated "build.cm" and "compile_perl.cm" to build perl using either cc or gcc. Brought "config.alpha.def" and "config.ga.def" up-to-date. Updated "configure_perl.cm" to rebuild the header file even if the date of the definitions file is equal to the date of the header, because the perl distribution resets all dates to the same value. Update "Changes". Update "perl.bind". For 5.7: Updated "build.cm" to build perl using either the alpha or GA version of POSIX. Updated "Changes". Updated "compile_perl.cm" to use either the alpha or GA version of POSIX. Split "config.def" into config.alpha.def and config.ga.def; one for each version. Use the configure_perl.cm macro to select the appropriate version. Split "config.h" into config.alpha.h and config.ga.h. Use the configure_perl.cm macro to select the appropriate version. Updated "config.pl". It now diagnoses undefined (missing) and unused substitution variables. When a new version of Perl comes out, run "configure_perl.cm", add any missing definitions to config.*.def, and remove any unused definitions. Removed "config_h.SH_orig". It is no longer needed. Added "configure_perl.cm". It is used to configure perl so that it can be built with either version of VOS POSIX.1 support. Added "install_perl.cm" to install Perl into the appropriate system directories. Updated "perl.bind" to work with either the alpha or GA version of POSIX. Updated "vosish.h" to just use the standard "unixish.h" since there are no changes needed at this time. After 5.005_63: Supplied "config.pl" perl script that takes "config_h.SH_orig" and "config.def" as input and produces "config.h.new". With some luck, you will just need to edit "config.def" to create a new port. Updated "build.cm". Updated "compile_perl.cm". Added "config.def". Updated "config.h". Added "config.pl". Updated "config_h.SH_orig". Updated "perl.bind". Updated "README.vos". Updated "vos_dummies.c". Updated "vosish.h". after 5.005_02: Initial release. Supplied "build.cm" command macro to build perl. Supplied "Changes" to document the change history. Supplied "compile_perl.cm" to launch processes to compile all four versions of the Perl 5 binaries. Supplied "config.h" to configure Perl 5 to VOS. Unfortunately, since VOS does not have the configure tool, this file was built by hand by editing "config_h.SH". Supplied "config_h.SH_orig", which is the version of this file that was current for version 5.005_02. Use this to discover any subsequent changes to config_h.SH that must be hand-copied into the real config.h. Supplied "perl.bind" to control the VOS binder. Supplied "README.vos" to describe the VOS port. Supplied "test_vos_dummies.c" to test the VOS dummy functions. Supplied "vos_dummies.c" to trap unimplemented POSIX functions. Supplied "vosish.h" to configure Perl 5 to VOS. (end)