| 1 | If you read this file _as_is_, just ignore the funny characters you
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| 2 | see. It is written in the POD format (see pod/perlpod.pod) which is
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| 3 | specially designed to be readable as is.
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| 4 |
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| 5 | =head1 NAME
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| 6 |
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| 7 | README.machten - Perl version 5 on Power MachTen systems
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| 8 |
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| 9 | =head1 DESCRIPTION
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| 10 |
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| 11 | This document describes how to build Perl 5 on Power MachTen systems,
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| 12 | and discusses a few wrinkles in the implementation.
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| 13 |
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| 14 | =head2 Perl version 5.8.x and greater not supported
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| 15 |
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| 16 | B<Power MachTen is not supported by versions of Perl later than
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| 17 | 5.6.x.>
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| 18 | If you wish to build a version from the 5.6 track, please
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| 19 | obtain a source distribution from the archive at
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| 20 | L<http://cpan.org/src/5.0/> and follow the instructions in its
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| 21 | README.machten file.
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| 22 |
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| 23 | MachTen is no longer supported by its developers, Tenon Intersystems.
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| 24 | A UNIX environment hosted on Mac OS Classic, MachTen has been
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| 25 | superseded by Mac OS X and by BSD and Linux implementations for Macintosh
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| 26 | hardware.
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| 27 | The final version of Power MachTen, 4.1.4, lacks many features found in
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| 28 | modern implementations of UNIX, and has a number of bugs.
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| 29 | These shortcomings prevent recent versions of Perl from being able to use
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| 30 | extensions on MachTen, and cause numerous test suite failures in the
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| 31 | perl core.
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| 32 |
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| 33 | In September 2003, a discussion on the MachTen mailing list determined
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| 34 | that there was no interest in making a later version of Perl build
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| 35 | successfully on MachTen.
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| 36 | Consequently, support for building Perl under MachTen has been suppressed
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| 37 | in Perl distributions published after February 2004.
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| 38 | The hints file, F<hints/machten.sh>, remains a part of the
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| 39 | distributions for reference purposes.
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| 40 |
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| 41 | =head2 Compiling Perl 5.6.x on MachTen
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| 42 |
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| 43 | To compile perl 5.6.x under MachTen 4.1.4 (and probably earlier versions):
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| 44 |
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| 45 | ./Configure -de
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| 46 | make
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| 47 | make test
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| 48 | make install
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| 49 |
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| 50 | This builds and installs a statically-linked perl; MachTen's dynamic
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| 51 | linking facilities are not adequate to support Perl's use of
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| 52 | dynamically linked libraries. (See F<hints/machten.sh> for more
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| 53 | information.)
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| 54 |
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| 55 | You should have at least 32 megabytes of free memory on your
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| 56 | system before running the C<make> command.
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| 57 |
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| 58 | For much more information on building perl -- for example, on how to
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| 59 | change the default installation directory -- see F<INSTALL>.
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| 60 |
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| 61 | =head2 Failures during C<make test> on MachTen
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| 62 |
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| 63 | =over 4
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| 64 |
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| 65 | =item op/lexassign.t
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| 66 |
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| 67 | This test may fail when first run after building perl. It does not
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| 68 | fail subsequently. The cause is unknown.
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| 69 |
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| 70 | =item pragma/warnings.t
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