| [3181] | 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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| 5 | =head1 NAME
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| 7 | README.macosx - Perl under Mac OS X
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| 8 |
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| 9 | =head1 SYNOPSIS
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| 11 | This document briefly describes perl under Mac OS X.
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| 14 | =head1 DESCRIPTION
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| 15 |
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| 16 | The latest Perl release (5.8.8 as of this writing) builds without changes
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| 17 | under Mac OS X. Under 10.3 "Panther" and newer OS versions, all self-tests
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| 18 | pass, and all standard features are supported.
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| 19 |
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| 20 | Earlier Mac OS X releases (10.2 "Jaguar" and older) did not include a
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| 21 | completely thread-safe libc, so threading is not fully supported. Also,
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| 22 | earlier releases included a buggy libdb, so some of the DB_File tests
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| 23 | are known to fail on those releases.
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| 26 | =head2 Installation Prefix
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| 27 |
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| 28 | The default installation location for this release uses the traditional
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| 29 | UNIX directory layout under /usr/local. This is the recommended location
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| 30 | for most users, and will leave the Apple-supplied Perl and its modules
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| 31 | undisturbed.
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| 32 |
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| 33 | Using an installation prefix of '/usr' will result in a directory layout
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| 34 | that mirrors that of Apple's default Perl, with core modules stored in
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