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@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ designed to be readable as is.
 
 =head1 NAME
 
 
 =head1 NAME
 

-README.macosx - Perl under Mac OS X
+perlmacosx - Perl under Mac OS X

 
 =head1 SYNOPSIS
 
 
 =head1 SYNOPSIS
 


@@ -23,6 +23,11 @@ This document briefly describes Perl under Mac OS X.
 The latest Perl release (5.12.3 as of this writing) builds without changes
 under all versions of Mac OS X from 10.3 "Panther" onwards. 
 
 The latest Perl release (5.12.3 as of this writing) builds without changes
 under all versions of Mac OS X from 10.3 "Panther" onwards. 
 

+In order to build your own version of Perl you will need 'make'
+this is part of the Apples developer tools (you only need the 'unix tools'),
+usually supplied with Mac OS install DVDs. You do not need the latest 
+version of Xcode (which is now charged for) in order to install make.
+

 Earlier Mac OS X releases (10.2 "Jaguar" and older) did not include a
 completely thread-safe libc, so threading is not fully supported. Also,
 earlier releases included a buggy libdb, so some of the DB_File tests
 Earlier Mac OS X releases (10.2 "Jaguar" and older) did not include a
 completely thread-safe libc, so threading is not fully supported. Also,
 earlier releases included a buggy libdb, so some of the DB_File tests


@@ -131,7 +136,7 @@ need to go to a great deal of effort to obtain the information needed
 for pre-binding.
 
 You can override the default and build a shared libperl if you wish
 for pre-binding.
 
 You can override the default and build a shared libperl if you wish

-(S<Configure ... -Duseshrlib>), but the load time on pre-10.4 OS
+(S<Configure ... -Duseshrplib>), but the load time on pre-10.4 OS

 releases will be greater than either the static library, or Apple's
 pre-bound dynamic library.
 
 releases will be greater than either the static library, or Apple's
 pre-bound dynamic library.
 


@@ -185,19 +190,11 @@ but remember that there's a startup cost to pay in that case (see above
 
 Starting with Tiger (Mac OS X 10.4), Apple shipped broken locale files for
 the eu_ES locale (Basque-Spain).  In previous releases of Perl, this resulted in
 
 Starting with Tiger (Mac OS X 10.4), Apple shipped broken locale files for
 the eu_ES locale (Basque-Spain).  In previous releases of Perl, this resulted in

-failures in the C<lib/locale> test. These failures have been suppressed
+failures in the F<lib/locale> test. These failures have been suppressed

 in the current release of Perl by making the test ignore the broken locale.
 If you need to use the eu_ES locale, you should contact Apple support.
 
 
 in the current release of Perl by making the test ignore the broken locale.
 If you need to use the eu_ES locale, you should contact Apple support.
 
 

-=head2 Carbon
-
-MacPerl ships with a number of modules that are used to access the
-classic MacOS toolbox. Many of these modules have been updated to use
-Mac OS X's newer "Carbon" toolbox, and are available from CPAN in the
-"Mac::Carbon" module.
-
-

 =head2 Cocoa
 
 There are two ways to use Cocoa from Perl. Apple's PerlObjCBridge
 =head2 Cocoa
 
 There are two ways to use Cocoa from Perl. Apple's PerlObjCBridge


@@ -238,7 +235,7 @@ You can find them for example by
 After this you can either copy Perl from your operating system media
 (you will need at least the /System/Library/Perl and /usr/bin/perl),
 or rebuild Perl from the source code with C<Configure -Dprefix=/usr
 After this you can either copy Perl from your operating system media
 (you will need at least the /System/Library/Perl and /usr/bin/perl),
 or rebuild Perl from the source code with C<Configure -Dprefix=/usr

--Dusershrplib> NOTE: the C<-Dprefix=/usr> to replace the system Perl
+-Duseshrplib> NOTE: the C<-Dprefix=/usr> to replace the system Perl

 works much better with Perl 5.8.1 and later, in Perl 5.8.0 the
 settings were not quite right.
 
 works much better with Perl 5.8.1 and later, in Perl 5.8.0 the
 settings were not quite right.