+This is an unsupported, pre-release version of Perl 5.0. It is expected
+to work only on a Sparc architecture machine. NO CONFIGURE SUPPORT IS
+PROVIDED, despite what it says below. In fact, if you succeed in
+configuring and making a new makefile, you'll probably overwrite the
+only makefile that works. Note that a SunOS executable comes with the
+kit, so you may not need to compile at all. See file Changes for a
+list of new features. If you look at t/op/ref.t you'll see some of
+them in use. perl -Dxst is also fun.
- Perl Kit, Version 3.0
+ Perl Kit, Version 5.0
- Copyright (c) 1989, Larry Wall
+ Copyright (c) 1989,1990,1991,1992,1993,1994 Larry Wall
+ 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.
+ 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 have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ You should also 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.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ 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 uperl.o 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
+ equivalent of defining subroutines in the Perl language itself. You
+ may sell such an object file as proprietary provided that you provide
+ or offer to provide the Perl source, as specified by the GNU General
+ 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 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 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's also a Nutshell
+Handbook published by O'Reilly & Assoc. Their U.S. number is
+1-800-998-9938 and their international number is 1-707-829-0515.
+E-mail to nuts@ora.com.
Please read all the directions below before you proceed any further, and
then follow them carefully.
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.
+ Makefile. If you're a hotshot, run Configure -d to take all the
+ defaults and then edit config.sh to patch up any flaws.
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
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.
+ can be done in cflags.SH. For instance, to turn off the optimizer
+ on eval.c, find the line in the switch structure for eval.c and
+ put the command $optimize='-g' before the ;;. You will probably
+ want to change the entry for teval.c too. To change the C flags
+ for all the files, edit config.sh and change either $ccflags or $optimize.
3) make depend
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. You can customize the switches for each file in
+ cflags.SH. 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.
+
+ Most of the following hints are now done automatically by Configure.
+
+ The 3b2 needs to turn off -O.
+ Compilers with limited switch tables may have to define -DSMALLSWITCHES
+ 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.
+ AIX RS/6000 needs to use system malloc and avoid -O on eval.c and toke.c.
+ AIX RS/6000 needs -D_NO_PROTO.
+ SUNOS 4.0.[12] needs -DFPUTS_BOTCH.
+ SUNOS 3.[45] should use the system malloc.
+ SGI machines may need -Ddouble="long float" and -O1.
+ Vax-based systems 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 2900 or so.
+ Ultrix 3.[01] on MIPS needs to undefine WAITPID--the system call is busted.
+ MIPS machines need /bin before /bsd43/bin in PATH.
+ MIPS machines may need to undef d_volatile.
+ MIPS machines may need to turn off -O on cmd.c, perl.c and tperl.c.
+ Some MIPS machines may need to undefine CASTNEGFLOAT.
+ Xenix 386 needs -Sm11000 for yacc, and may need -UM_I86.
+ SCO Xenix may need -m25000 for yacc. See also README.xenix.
+ 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.
+ dynix may need to undefine CASTNEGFLOAT (d_castneg='undef' in config.sh).
+ Dnix (not dynix) may need to remove -O.
+ IRIX 3.3 may need to undefine VFORK.
+ HP/UX may need to pull cerror.o and syscall.o out of libc.a and link
+ them in explicitly.
+ 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.
+ If you have GDBM available and want it instead of NDBM, say -DHAS_GDBM.
+ C's that don't try to restore registers on longjmp() may need -DJMPCLOBBER.
+ (Try this if you get random glitches.)
+ If you get duplicates upon linking for malloc et al, say -DHIDEMYMALLOC.
+ Turn on support for 64-bit integers (long longs) with -DQUAD.
+
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 in doubt, just
- cd to the t directory and run TEST by hand.
+ 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. If individual tests bomb, you can run
+ them by hand, e.g., ./perl op/groups.t
6) make install
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
+ patches to me, lwall@netlabs.com (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.
+ I've probably changed my copy since the version you have. It's also
+ helpful if you send the output of "uname -a".
- Watch for perl patches in comp.sources.bugs. Patches will generally be
+ 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.
https://perl5.git.perl.org / perl5.git / blobdiff