perl.5.004_04.2.README
Mar 3, 1998

file:	perl.5.004_04.2.PI.tar.gz
size:	3416kb
md5sum:	2ad6bf7e68e89094b61fad4cd85e1ee3	

perl v5.004_04 installer.sh package, including support for dynamic loading
of modules and current versions of all standard modules.  Install it
only on computers running Rhapsody DR1.  This latest port includes FAT
(i386+ppc) binaries for use on both platforms.

To install, Type in a Terminal.app window (as root).

cd /wherever/the/file/is
gnutar xvzf perl.5.004_04.2.PI.tar.gz
installer.sh perl.pkg

Changes required for build:
- Used next_4.sh as skeleton for a rhapsody.sh hints file.
- Used dl_next.xs for dynamic loading.
- Add HAS_TELLDIR_PROTOTYPE to config.sh, config_h.SH 
  (fixes problem with pp_sys.c)
- Used system malloc.  I tried using perl's malloc, but had
  intermitent segmentation faults.
- modified perl.h and perl.c to use __environ for environment variable
  (like other systems).  David Young (dwy@ace.net) has an alternate 
  fix in his port of perl:
  - need to change dyld_stub_* in perl.c to the new _NSGetEnviron
  (much cooler if you ask me) in /usr/include/crt_externs.h
- Remove POSIX call to sigpending().  It is missing from System.framework, 
  though it IS documented.  I suspect this missing function to reappear
  in a later release of Rhapsody.

NOTES

Installs for native build dynamic modules only.  If you want your
distribution to build FAT add-on dynamically loadable modules, you'll
need to look at /usr/local/lib/perl5/fat-rhapsody/5.00404/Config.pm*.

Some of the add-on modules (like CPAN and Net) are configured
for my system and may require adjusting to function properly
on your system.  See /usr/local/lib/perl5/CPAN/Config.pm and
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/fat-rhapsody/Net/Config.pm for details.

I cheated building this package.  The .tar.Z inside the pkg wrapper
is REALLY a .tar.gz archive, which makes this package much smaller.
The installer.sh doesn't mind, since it just pipes it to gzip and gnutar.


PORT CHANGELOG

port 2: Mar  3, 1998
 - Add FAT binary (i386+ppc) support.  ppc untested.
port 1:	Feb 23, 1998
 - First attempt, i386 only


CREDITS

Package Creation
Rex Dieter <rdieter@math.unl.edu>
Computer System Manager
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
http://www.math.unl.edu/~rdieter/

Perl home page
http://www.perl.com
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