- Perl Kit, Version 3.0
+ Perl Kit, Version 5
- Copyright (c) 1989,1990, Larry Wall
+ Copyright (C) 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998
+ 1999, 2000, 2001, by Larry Wall and others
+
+ All rights reserved.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
- it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
- the Free Software Foundation; either version 1, or (at your option)
- any later version.
+ it under the terms of either:
+
+ a) the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
+ Software Foundation; either version 1, or (at your option) any
+ later version, or
+
+ b) the "Artistic License" which comes with this Kit.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
- GNU General Public License for more details.
-
- You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
- Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
-
- My interpretation of the GNU General Public License is that no Perl
- script falls under the terms of the License unless you explicitly put
- said script under the terms of the License yourself. Furthermore, any
- object code linked with uperl.o does not automatically fall under the
- terms of the License, provided such object code only adds definitions
+ MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See either
+ the GNU General Public License or the Artistic License for more details.
+
+ You should have received a copy of the Artistic License with this
+ Kit, in the file named "Artistic". If not, I'll be glad to provide one.
+
+ You should also have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ along with this program in the file named "Copying". If not, write to the
+ Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA
+ 02111-1307, USA or visit their web page on the internet at
+ http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html.
+
+ For those of you that choose to use the GNU General Public License,
+ my interpretation of the GNU General Public License is that no Perl
+ script falls under the terms of the GPL unless you explicitly put
+ said script under the terms of the GPL yourself. Furthermore, any
+ object code linked with perl does not automatically fall under the
+ terms of the GPL, provided such object code only adds definitions
of subroutines and variables, and does not otherwise impair the
resulting interpreter from executing any standard Perl script. I
consider linking in C subroutines in this manner to be the moral
Public License. (This is merely an alternate way of specifying input
to the program.) You may also sell a binary produced by the dumping of
a running Perl script that belongs to you, provided that you provide or
- offer to provide the Perl source as specified by the License. (The
+ offer to provide the Perl source as specified by the GPL. (The
fact that a Perl interpreter and your code are in the same binary file
is, in this case, a form of mere aggregation.) This is my interpretation
- of the License. If you still have concerns or difficulties understanding
- my intent, feel free to contact me.
+ of the GPL. If you still have concerns or difficulties understanding
+ my intent, feel free to contact me. Of course, the Artistic License
+ spells all this out for your protection, so you may prefer to use that.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
-Perl is a language that combines some of the features of C, sed, awk and shell.
-See the manual page for more hype.
-
-Perl will probably not run on machines with a small address space.
+Perl is a language that combines some of the features of C, sed, awk
+and shell. See the manual page for more hype. There are also many Perl
+books available, covering a wide variety of topics, from various publishers.
+See pod/perlbook.pod for more information.
Please read all the directions below before you proceed any further, and
then follow them carefully.
Installation
-1) Run Configure. This will figure out various things about your system.
- Some things Configure will figure out for itself, other things it will
- ask you about. It will then proceed to make config.h, config.sh, and
- Makefile.
-
- You might possibly have to trim # comments from the front of Configure
- if your sh doesn't handle them, but all other # comments will be taken
- care of.
-
- (If you don't have sh, you'll have to copy the sample file config.H to
- config.h and edit the config.h to reflect your system's peculiarities.)
-
-2) Glance through config.h to make sure system dependencies are correct.
- Most of them should have been taken care of by running the Configure script.
-
- If you have any additional changes to make to the C definitions, they
- can be done in the Makefile, or in config.h. Bear in mind that they will
- get undone next time you run Configure.
-
-3) make depend
-
- This will look for all the includes and modify Makefile accordingly.
- Configure will offer to do this for you.
-
-4) make
-
- This will attempt to make perl in the current directory.
-
- If you can't compile successfully, try adding a -DCRIPPLED_CC flag.
- (Just because you get no errors doesn't mean it compiled right!)
- This simplifies some complicated expressions for compilers that
- get indigestion easily. If that has no effect, try turning off
- optimization. If you have missing routines, you probably need to
- add some library or other, or you need to undefine some feature that
- Configure thought was there but is defective or incomplete.
-
- Some compilers will not compile or optimize the larger files without
- some extra switches to use larger jump offsets or allocate larger
- internal tables. It's okay to insert rules for specific files into
- Makefile.SH, since a default rule only takes effect in the
- absence of a specific rule.
-
- The 3b2 needs to turn off -O.
- Domain/OS 10.3 (at least) native C 6.7 may need -opt 2 for eval.c
- AIX/RT may need a -a switch and -DCRIPPLED_CC.
- SUNOS 4.0.[12] needs #define fputs(str,fp) fprintf(fp,"%s",str) in perl.h
- SUNOS 3.[45] should use the system malloc.
- SGI machines may need -Ddouble="long float".
- Ultrix (2.3) may need to hand assemble teval.s with a -J switch.
- Ultrix on MIPS machines may need -DLANGUAGE_C.
- Ultrix 4.0 on MIPS machines may need -Olimit 2820 or so.
- Ultrix 3.[01] on MIPS needs to undefine WAITPID--the system call is busted.
- MIPS machines may need to undef d_volatile.
- MIPS machines may need to turn off -O on perly.c and tperly.c.
- Some MIPS machines may need to undefine CASTNEGFLOAT.
- SCO Xenix may need -m25000 for yacc.
- Xenix 386 needs -Sm11000 for yacc, and may need -UM_I86.
- Genix needs to use libc rather than libc_s, or #undef VARARGS.
- NCR Tower 32 (OS 2.01.01) may need -W2,-Sl,2000 and #undef MKDIR.
- A/UX may appears to work with -O -B/usr/lib/big/ optimizer flags.
- A/UX needs -lposix to find rewinddir.
- A/UX may need -ZP -DPOSIX, and -g if big cc is used.
- FPS machines may need -J and -DBADSWITCH.
- UTS may need one or more of -DCRIPPLED_CC, -K or -g, and undef LSTAT.
- Dnix (not dynix) may need to remove -O.
- IRIX 3.3 may need to undefine VFORK.
- If you get syntax errors on '(', try -DCRIPPLED_CC or -DBADSWITCH or both.
- Machines with half-implemented dbm routines will need to #undef ODBM & NDBM.
- C's that don't try to restore registers on longjmp() may need -DJMPCLOBBER.
- (Try this if you get random glitches.)
-
-5) make test
-
- This will run the regression tests on the perl you just made.
- If it doesn't say "All tests successful" then something went wrong.
- See the README in the t subdirectory. Note that you can't run it
- in background if this disables opening of /dev/tty. If "make test"
- bombs out, just cd to the t directory and run TEST by hand to see if
- it makes any difference.
-
-6) make install
-
- This will put perl into a public directory (such as /usr/local/bin).
- It will also try to put the man pages in a reasonable place. It will not
- nroff the man page, however. You may need to be root to do this. If
- you are not root, you must own the directories in question and you should
- ignore any messages about chown not working.
-
-7) Read the manual entry before running perl.
-
-8) IMPORTANT! Help save the world! Communicate any problems and suggested
- patches to me, lwall@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov (Larry Wall), so we can
- keep the world in sync. If you have a problem, there's someone else
- out there who either has had or will have the same problem.
-
- If possible, send in patches such that the patch program will apply them.
- Context diffs are the best, then normal diffs. Don't send ed scripts--
- I've probably changed my copy since the version you have.
-
- Watch for perl patches in comp.lang.perl. Patches will generally be
- in a form usable by the patch program. If you are just now bringing up
- perl and aren't sure how many patches there are, write to me and I'll
- send any you don't have. Your current patch level is shown in patchlevel.h.
+1) Detailed instructions are in the file "INSTALL", which you should
+read if you are either installing on a system resembling Unix
+or porting perl to another platform. For non-Unix platforms, see the
+corresponding README.
+
+2) Read the manual entries before running perl.
+
+3) IMPORTANT! Help save the world! Communicate any problems and suggested
+patches to perlbug@perl.org so we can keep the world in sync.
+If you have a problem, there's someone else out there who either has had
+or will have the same problem. It's usually helpful if you send the
+output of the "myconfig" script in the main perl directory.
+
+If you've succeeded in compiling perl, the perlbug script in the "utils"
+subdirectory can be used to help mail in a bug report.
+
+If possible, send in patches such that the patch program will apply them.
+Context diffs are the best, then normal diffs. Don't send ed scripts--
+I've probably changed my copy since the version you have.
+
+The latest versions of perl are always available on the various CPAN
+(Comprehensive Perl Archive Network) sites around the world.
+See <URL:http://www.cpan.org/src/>.
Just a personal note: I want you to know that I create nice things like this
https://perl5.git.perl.org / perl5.git / blobdiff