| 1 | If you read this file _as_is_, just ignore the funny characters you see.
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| 2 | It is written in the POD format (see pod/perlpod.pod) which is specially
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| 3 | 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.qnx - Perl version 5 on QNX
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| 8 |
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| 9 | =head1 DESCRIPTION
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| 10 |
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| 11 | As of perl5.7.2 all tests pass under:
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| 12 |
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| 13 | QNX 4.24G
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| 14 | Watcom 10.6 with Beta/970211.wcc.update.tar.F
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| 15 | socket3r.lib Nov21 1996.
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| 16 |
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| 17 | As of perl5.8.1 there is at least one test still failing.
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| 18 |
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| 19 | Some tests may complain under known circumstances.
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| 20 |
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| 21 | See below and hints/qnx.sh for more information.
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| 22 |
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| 23 | Under QNX 6.2.0 there are still a few tests which fail.
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| 24 | See below and hints/qnx.sh for more information.
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| 25 |
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| 26 | =head2 Required Software for Compiling Perl on QNX4
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| 27 |
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| 28 | As with many unix ports, this one depends on a few "standard"
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| 29 | unix utilities which are not necessarily standard for QNX4.
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| 30 |
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| 31 | =over 4
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| 32 |
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| 33 | =item /bin/sh
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| 34 |
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| 35 | This is used heavily by Configure and then by
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| 36 | perl itself. QNX4's version is fine, but Configure
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| 37 | will choke on the 16-bit version, so if you are
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| 38 | running QNX 4.22, link /bin/sh to /bin32/ksh
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| 39 |
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| 40 | =item ar
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| 41 |
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| 42 | This is the standard unix library builder.
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| 43 | We use wlib. With Watcom 10.6, when wlib is
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| 44 | linked as "ar", it behaves like ar and all is
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| 45 | fine. Under 9.5, a cover is required. One is
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| 46 | included in ../qnx
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| 47 |
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| 48 | =item nm
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| 49 |
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| 50 | This is used (optionally) by configure to list
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| 51 | the contents of libraries. I will generate
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| 52 | a cover function on the fly in the UU directory.
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| 53 |
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| 54 | =item cpp
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| 55 |
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| 56 | Configure and perl need a way to invoke a C
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| 57 | preprocessor. I have created a simple cover
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| 58 | for cc which does the right thing. Without this,
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| 59 | Configure will create its own wrapper which works,
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| 60 | but it doesn't handle some of the command line arguments
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