Linux hints: try using user-provided binaries before going for the defaults

[perl5.git] / hints / sunos_4_1.sh

diff --git a/hints/sunos_4_1.sh b/hints/sunos_4_1.sh
index 650b551..fa0499b 100644 (file)
--- a/hints/sunos_4_1.sh
+++ b/hints/sunos_4_1.sh
@@ -9,14 +9,12 @@ case "$cc" in
 *)     usevfork=true ;;
 esac
 
-# Configure will issue a WHOA warning.  The problem is that
 # Configure finds getzname, not tzname.  If you're in the System V
 # environment, you can set d_tzname='define' since tzname[] is
 # available in the System V environment.
 d_tzname='undef'
 
-# Configure will issue a WHOA warning.  The problem is that unistd.h
-# contains incorrect prototypes for some functions in the usual
+# unistd.h contains incorrect prototypes for some functions in the usual
 # BSD-ish environment.  In particular, it has
 # extern int   getgroups(/* int gidsetsize, gid_t grouplist[] */);
 # but groupslist[] ought to be of type int, not gid_t.
@@ -40,13 +38,6 @@ i_unistd='undef'
 # fflush() them.  -- Andy Dougherty  Wed May 26 15:25:22 EDT 1999
 util_cflags='ccflags="$ccflags -DPERL_FFLUSH_ALL_FOPEN_MAX=32"'
 
-cat << 'EOM' >&4
-
-You will probably see  *** WHOA THERE!!! ***  messages from Configure for
-d_tzname and i_unistd.  Keep the recommended values.  See
-hints/sunos_4_1.sh for more information.
-EOM
-
 # The correct setting of groupstype depends on which version of the C
 # library is used.  If you are in the 'System V environment'
 # (i.e. you have /usr/5bin ahead of /usr/bin in your PATH), and
@@ -82,3 +73,14 @@ fi
 # library.
 # 
 # Thanks to William Setzer <William_Setzer@ncsu.edu> for this info.
+
+# Don't use the GNU ld, that doesn't work, you'll get a lot of
+# relocation truncated to fit: BASE13 ...
+# from many extensions, like B and Data::Dumper.
+ld=/usr/bin/ld
+
+# As of Perl 5.8.1 it seems that dynaloading is broken in SunOS 4.x, sniff.
+case "$usedl" in
+'') usedl=undef ;;
+esac
+