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- Perl Kit, Version 4.0
-
- Copyright (c) 1989,1990,1991, Larry Wall
- All rights reserved.
-
- This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
- it under the terms of the "Perl 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
- Perl Artistic License for more details.
-
- You should have received a copy of the Perl Artistic License with this
- Kit, in the file named "Perl Artistic License". If not, I'll be glad to provide one.
-
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- 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 1-800-338-6887 (dev-nuts) and
- their international number is 1-707-829-0515. E-mail to nuts@ora.com.
-
- Note that this and other email addresses, referred to in this MPW Perl package,
- may be used via AppleLink by appending @INTERNET# to the address.
-
- Perl will probably not run on machines with a small address space.
-
- Please read all the directions below before you proceed any further, and
- then follow them carefully.
-
- After you have unpacked your kit, you should have all the files listed
- in MANIFEST.
-
- 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. 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
- 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 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 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. 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.
-
- For further information on compiling Perl for non-Macintosh systems,
- please refer to this section in a version of Perl distributed via Internet in
- either of the following locations:
-
- For further information on compiling Perl for non-Macintosh systems,
- please refer to this section in a version of Perl distributed via Internet in
- either of the following locations:
-
- nic.switch.ch software/mac/perl
- ftp.eunet.ch software/mac/perl
-
- If you want to build a version of Perl for non-Macintosh systems *only*, you
- probably should go directly with the original Perl distribution, which can be found
- at:
-
- jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov pub/perl.4.0
-
- 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.)
- 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 "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
-
- 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@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. It's also
- helpful if you send the output of "uname -a".
-
- 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.
-
-
- Just a personal note: I want you to know that I create nice things like this
- because it pleases the Author of my story. If this bothers you, then your
- notion of Authorship needs some revision. But you can use perl anyway. :-)
-
- The author.
-