=head1 NAME
-README.macosx - Perl under Mac OS X
+perlmacosx - Perl under Mac OS X
=head1 SYNOPSIS
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
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.
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.
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.