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- [This file of Tom Christiansen's has been edited to change makelib to h2ph
- and .h to .ph where appropriate--law.]
-
- This directory contains files to help you convert the *.ph files generated my
- h2ph out of the perl source directory into *.pl files with all the
- indirection of the subroutine calls removed. The .ph version will be more
- safely portable, because if something isn't defined on the new system, like
- &TIOCGETP, then you'll get a fatal run-time error on the system lacking that
- function. Using the .pl version means that the subsequent scripts will give
- you a 0 $TIOCGETP and God only knows what may then happen. Still, I like the
- .pl stuff because they're faster to load.
-
- FIrst, you need to run h2ph on things like sys/ioctl.h to get stuff
- into the perl library directory, often /usr/local/lib/perl. For example,
- # h2ph sys/ioctl.h
- takes /usr/include/sys/ioctl.h as input and writes (without i/o redirection)
- the file /usr/local/lib/perl/sys/ioctl.ph, which looks like this
-
- eval 'sub TIOCM_RTS {0004;}';
- eval 'sub TIOCM_ST {0010;}';
- eval 'sub TIOCM_SR {0020;}';
- eval 'sub TIOCM_CTS {0040;}';
- eval 'sub TIOCM_CAR {0100;}';
-
- and much worse, rather than what Larry's ioctl.pl from the perl source dir has,
- which is:
-
- $TIOCM_RTS = 0004;
- $TIOCM_ST = 0010;
- $TIOCM_SR = 0020;
- $TIOCM_CTS = 0040;
- $TIOCM_CAR = 0100;
-
- [Workaround for fixed bug in makedir/h2ph deleted--law.]
-
- The more complicated ioctl subs look like this:
-
- eval 'sub TIOCGSIZE {&TIOCGWINSZ;}';
- eval 'sub TIOCGWINSZ {&_IOR("t", 104, \'struct winsize\');}';
- eval 'sub TIOCSETD {&_IOW("t", 1, \'int\');}';
- eval 'sub TIOCGETP {&_IOR("t", 8,\'struct sgttyb\');}';
-
- The _IO[RW] routines use a %sizeof array, which (presumably)
- is keyed on the type name with the value being the size in bytes.
-
- To build %sizeof, try running this in this directory:
-
- % ./getioctlsizes
-
- Which will tell you which things the %sizeof array needs
- to hold. You can try to build a sizeof.ph file with:
-
- % ./getioctlsizes | ./mksizes > sizeof.ph
-
- Note that mksizes hardcodes the #include files for all the types, so it will
- probably require customization. Once you have sizeof.ph, install it in the
- perl library directory. Run my tcbreak script to see whether you can do
- ioctls in perl now. You'll get some kind of fatal run-time error if you
- can't. That script should be included in this directory.
-
- If this works well, now you can try to convert the *.ph files into
- *.pl files. Try this:
-
- foreach file ( sysexits.ph sys/{errno.ph,ioctl.ph} )
- ./mkvars $file > t/$file:r.pl
- end
-
- The last one will be the hardest. If it works, should be able to
- run tcbreak2 and have it work the same as tcbreak.
-
- Good luck.
-