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1 | If you read this file _as_is_, just ignore the funny characters you |
2 | see. It is written in the POD format (see pod/perlpod.pod) which is |
3 | specially designed to be readable as is. |
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5 | =head1 NAME |
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6 | |
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7 | README.cygwin - Perl for Cygwin |
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8 | |
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9 | =head1 SYNOPSIS |
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10 | |
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11 | This document will help you configure, make, test and install Perl |
12 | on Cygwin. This document also describes features of Cygwin that will |
13 | affect how Perl behaves at runtime. |
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14 | |
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15 | B<NOTE:> There are pre-built Perl packages available for Cygwin and a |
16 | version of Perl is provided on the Cygwin CD. If you have no need to |
17 | customize the configuration, consider using one of these packages: |
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18 | |
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19 | http://cygutils.netpedia.net/ |
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20 | |
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21 | =head1 PREREQUISITES |
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22 | |
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23 | =head2 Cygwin = GNU+Cygnus+Windows (Don't leave UNIX without it) |
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24 | |
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25 | The Cygwin tools are ports of the popular GNU development tools for Win32 |
26 | platforms. They run thanks to the Cygwin library which provides the UNIX |
27 | system calls and environment these programs expect. More information |
28 | about this project can be found at: |
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29 | |
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30 | http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/ |
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31 | |
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32 | A recent net or commercial release of Cygwin is required. |
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33 | |
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34 | At the time this document was written, the port required recent |
35 | development snapshots that were expected to stabilize early in 2000 and |
36 | be released to the net as B21 and commercially as v1.1. |
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37 | |
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38 | B<NOTE:> At this point, minimal effort has been made to provide |
39 | compatibility with old (beta) Cygwin releases. The focus has been to |
40 | provide a high quality release and not worry about working around old |
41 | Cygwin bugs. If you wish to use Perl with Cygwin B20.1 or earlier, |
42 | consider using either perl5.005_03 or perl5.005_62, which are available |
43 | in source and binary form at C<http://cygutils.netpedia.net/> or on the |
44 | Cygwin CD. If there is significant demand, a patch kit can be developed |
45 | to port back to earlier Cygwin versions. |
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46 | |
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47 | =head2 Compiler |
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48 | |
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49 | A recent net or commercial release of I<gcc> is required. |
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50 | |
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51 | At the time this document was written, I<gcc-2.95.2> was current and |
52 | could be downloaded from: |
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53 | |
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54 | ftp://ftp.xraylith.wisc.edu/pub/khan/gnu-win32/cygwin/gcc-2.95.2/ |
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55 | |
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56 | =head2 Cygwin Configuration |
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57 | |
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58 | While building Perl some changes may be necessary to your Cygwin setup so |
59 | that Perl builds cleanly. These changes are B<not> required for normal |
60 | Perl usage. |
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61 | |
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62 | B<NOTE:> The binaries that are built will run on all Win32 versions. |
63 | They do not depend on your host system (Win9x, WinNT) or your Cygwin |
64 | configuration (I<ntea>, I<ntsec>, binary/text mounts). The only |
65 | dependencies come from hardcoded pathnames like C</usr/local>. However, |
66 | your host system and Cygwin configuration will affect Perl's runtime |
67 | behavior (see L</"TEST">). Some regression tests may fail in different |
68 | ways depending on your setup. For now, the test suite does not skip |
69 | tests that do not make sense given a particular setup. If a test can |
70 | pass in some Cygwin setup, it is left in and explainable test failures |
71 | are documented. |
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72 | |
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73 | =over 4 |
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74 | |
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75 | =item * C<PATH> |
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76 | |
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77 | Set the C<PATH> environment variable so that Configure finds the Cygwin |
78 | versions of programs. Any Windows directories should be removed or |
79 | moved to the end of your C<PATH>. |
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80 | |
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81 | =item * F</bin/cat.exe> |
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82 | |
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83 | There should be an instance of I<cat> in F</bin> (or F</usr/bin>). |
84 | Configure tests C<#!/bin/cat> and if it is not found, you will see |
85 | the error: |
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86 | |
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87 | Configure: ./try: No such file or directory |
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88 | |
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89 | =item * F</usr/bin> |
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90 | |
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91 | If you do not have a F</usr/bin> directory, Configure will B<not> prompt |
92 | you to install I<perl> into F</usr/bin>. |
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93 | |
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94 | =item * I<nroff> |
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95 | |
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96 | If you do not have I<nroff> (which is part of the I<groff> package), |
97 | Configure will B<not> prompt you to install man pages. |
98 | |
99 | =item * Permissions |
100 | |
101 | On WinNT with either the I<ntea> or I<ntsec> C<CYGWIN> settings, directory |
102 | and file permissions may not be set correctly. Since the build process |
103 | creates files and directories, to be safe you may want to run a `C<chmod |
104 | -R +w *>' on the entire Perl source tree. |
105 | |
106 | Also, it is a well known WinNT "feature" that files created by a login |
107 | that is a member of the I<Administrators> group will be owned by the |
108 | I<Administrators> group. Depending on your umask, you may find that you |
109 | can not write to files that you just created (because you are no longer |
110 | the owner). When using the I<ntsec> C<CYGWIN> setting, this is not an |
111 | issue because it "corrects" the ownership to what you would expect on |
112 | a UNIX system. |
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113 | |
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114 | =back |
115 | |
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116 | =head1 CONFIGURE |
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117 | |
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118 | The default options gathered by Configure with the assistance of |
119 | F<hints/cygwin.sh> will build a Perl that supports dynamic loading |
120 | (which requires a shared F<libperl.dll>). |
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121 | |
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122 | This will run Configure and keep a record: |
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123 | |
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124 | ./Configure 2>&1 | tee log.configure |
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125 | |
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126 | If you are willing to accept all the defaults add a B<-d> option. |
127 | However, several useful customizations are available. |
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128 | |
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129 | =head2 Strip Binaries |
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130 | |
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131 | It is possible to strip the EXEs and DLLs created by the build process. |
132 | The resulting binaries will be significantly smaller. If you want the |
133 | binaries to be stripped, you can either add a B<-s> option when Configure |
134 | prompts you, |
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135 | |
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136 | Any additional ld flags (NOT including libraries)? [none] -s |
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137 | Any special flags to pass to gcc to use dynamic linking? [none] -s |
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138 | Any special flags to pass to ld2 to create a dynamically loaded library? |
139 | [none] -s |
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140 | |
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141 | or you can edit F<hints/cygwin.sh> and uncomment the relevant variables |
142 | near the end of the file. |
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143 | |
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144 | =head2 Optional Libraries |
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145 | |
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146 | Several Perl functions and modules depend on the existence of |
147 | some optional libraries. Configure will find them if they are |
148 | installed in one of the directories listed as being used for library |
149 | searches. Pre-built packages for most of these are available at |
150 | C<http://cygutils.netpedia.net/>. |
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151 | |
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152 | =over 4 |
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153 | |
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154 | =item * C<-lcrypt> |
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155 | |
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156 | The crypt libraries in GNU libc have been ported to Cygwin. |
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157 | |
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158 | The DES based Ultra Fast Crypt port was done by Alexey Truhan: |
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159 | |
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160 | http://dome.weeg.uiowa.edu/pub/domestic/sos/cw32crypt-dist-0.tgz |
161 | |
162 | NOTE: There are various export restrictions on DES implementations, |
163 | see the glibc README for more details. |
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164 | |
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165 | The MD5 port was done by Andy Piper: |
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166 | |
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167 | http://dome.weeg.uiowa.edu/pub/domestic/sos/libcrypt.tgz |
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168 | |
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169 | More information can also be found at: |
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170 | |
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171 | http://miracle.geol.msu.ru/sos/ |
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172 | |
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173 | =item * C<-lgdbm> (C<use GDBM_File>) |
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174 | |
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175 | GDBM is available for Cygwin. GDBM's ndbm/dbm compatibility feature |
176 | also makes C<NDBM_File> and C<ODBM_File> possible (although they add |
177 | little extra value). |
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178 | |
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179 | =item * C<-ldb> (C<use DB_File>) |
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180 | |
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181 | BerkeleyDB is available for Cygwin. Some details can be found in |
182 | F<ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm>. |
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183 | |
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184 | =item * C<-lcygipc> (C<use IPC::SysV>) |
185 | |
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186 | A port of SysV IPC is available for Cygwin. It has not been extensively |
187 | tested. In particular, C<d_semctl_semun> does not configure properly |
188 | because the configure test fails and on Win9x the shm*() functions hang. |
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189 | |
190 | =back |
191 | |
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192 | =head2 Configure-time Options |
193 | |
194 | The F<INSTALL> document describes several Configure-time options. |
195 | Some of these will work with Cygwin, others are not yet possible. Also, |
196 | some of these are experimental. |
197 | |
198 | =over 4 |
199 | |
200 | =item * C<-Uusedl> |
201 | |
202 | If you want to force Perl to be compiled statically, you can either |
203 | choose this when Configure prompts you or you can use the Configure |
204 | command line option. |
205 | |
206 | =item * C<-Uusemymalloc> |
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207 | |
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208 | By default Perl uses the malloc() included with the Perl source. If you |
209 | want to force Perl to build with the system malloc(), you can either |
210 | choose this when Configure prompts you or you can use the Configure |
211 | command line option. |
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212 | |
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213 | =item * C<-Dusemultiplicty> |
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214 | |
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215 | Multiplicity is required when embedding Perl in a C program and using |
216 | more than one interpreter instance. This works with the Cygwin port. |
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217 | |
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218 | =item * C<-Duseperlio> |
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219 | |
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220 | The PerlIO abstraction works with the Cygwin port. |
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221 | |
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222 | =item * C<-Duse64bits> |
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223 | |
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224 | I<gcc> supports 64-bit integers. However, several additional long long |
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225 | functions are necessary to use them within Perl (I<{strtol,strtoul}l>). |
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226 | These are B<not> yet available with Cygwin. |
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227 | |
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228 | =item * C<-Duselongdouble> |
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229 | |
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230 | I<gcc> supports long doubles (12 bytes). However, several additional |
231 | long double math functions are necessary to use them within Perl |
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232 | (I<{atan2,cos,exp,floor,fmod,frexp,log,modf,pow,sin,sqrt}l,strtold>). |
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233 | These are B<not> yet available with Cygwin. |
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234 | |
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235 | =item * C<-Dusethreads> |
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236 | |
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237 | POSIX threads are B<not> yet implemented in Cygwin. |
238 | |
239 | =item * C<-Duselargefiles> |
240 | |
241 | Although Win32 supports large files, Cygwin currently uses 32-bit ints |
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242 | for internal size and position calculations. |
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243 | |
244 | =back |
245 | |
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246 | =head2 Suspicious Warnings |
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247 | |
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248 | You may see some messages during Configure that seem suspicious. |
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249 | |
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250 | =over 4 |
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251 | |
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252 | =item * Whoa There |
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253 | |
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254 | Cygwin does not yet implement chroot(), setegid() or seteuid() |
255 | functionality, but has stub functions that return C<ENOSYS>. You will |
256 | see a message when Configure detects that its guess conflicts with the |
257 | hint file. |
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258 | |
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259 | *** WHOA THERE!!! *** |
260 | The recommended value for $d_chroot on this machine was "undef"! |
261 | Keep the recommended value? [y] |
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262 | |
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263 | You should keep the recommended value. |
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264 | |
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265 | =item * Win9x and d_eofnblk |
266 | |
267 | Win9x does not correctly report C<EOF> with a non-blocking read on a |
268 | closed pipe. You will see the following messages: |
269 | |
270 | But it also returns -1 to signal EOF, so be careful! |
271 | WARNING: you can't distinguish between EOF and no data! |
272 | |
273 | *** WHOA THERE!!! *** |
274 | The recommended value for $d_eofnblk on this machine was "define"! |
275 | Keep the recommended value? [y] |
276 | |
277 | At least for consistency with WinNT, you should keep the recommended |
278 | value. |
279 | |
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280 | =item * Checking how std your stdio is... |
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281 | |
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282 | Configure reports: |
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283 | |
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284 | Your stdio doesn't appear very std. |
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285 | |
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286 | This is correct. |
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287 | |
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288 | =back |
289 | |
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290 | =head1 MAKE |
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291 | |
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292 | Simply run make and wait: |
293 | |
294 | make 2>&1 | tee log.make |
295 | |
296 | =head2 Warnings |
297 | |
298 | Warnings like these are normal: |
299 | |
300 | warning: overriding commands for target <file> |
301 | warning: ignoring old commands for target <file> |
302 | |
303 | Warning: no export definition file provided |
304 | dllwrap will create one, but may not be what you want |
305 | |
306 | =head2 ld2 |
307 | |
308 | During `C<make>', I<ld2> will be created and installed in your $installbin |
309 | directory (where you said to put public executables). It does not |
310 | wait until the `C<make install>' process to install the I<ld2> script, |
311 | this is because the remainder of the `C<make>' refers to I<ld2> without |
312 | fully specifying its path and does this from multiple subdirectories. |
313 | The assumption is that $installbin is in your current C<PATH>. If this |
314 | is not the case or if you do not have an I<install> program, `C<make>' |
315 | will fail at some point. If this happens, just manually copy I<ld2> |
316 | from the source directory to someplace in your C<PATH>. |
317 | |
318 | =head1 TEST |
319 | |
320 | There are two steps to running the test suite: |
321 | |
322 | make test 2>&1 | tee log.make-test |
323 | |
324 | cd t;./perl harness 2>&1 | tee ../log.harness |
325 | |
326 | The same tests are run both times, but more information is provided when |
327 | running as `C<./perl harness>'. |
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328 | |
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329 | Test results vary depending on your host system and your Cygwin |
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330 | configuration. It is possible that Cygwin will pass all the tests, |
331 | but it is more likely that some tests will fail for one of these reasons. |
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332 | |
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333 | =head2 File Permissions |
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334 | |
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335 | UNIX file permissions are based on sets of mode bits for |
336 | {read,write,execute} for each {user,group,other}. By default Cygwin only |
337 | tracks the Win32 readonly attribute represented as the UNIX file user |
338 | write bit (files are always readable, files are executable if they have |
339 | a F<.{com,bat,exe}> extension or begin with C<#!>, directories are always |
340 | readable and executable). On WinNT with the I<ntea> C<CYGWIN> setting, |
341 | the remaining mode bits are stored as extended attributes. On WinNT |
342 | with the I<ntsec> C<CYGWIN> setting, permissions use the standard WinNT |
343 | security descriptors and access control lists. Without one of these |
344 | options, these tests will fail: |
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345 | |
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346 | Failed Test List of failed |
347 | ------------------------------------ |
348 | io/fs.t 5, 7, 9-10 |
349 | lib/anydbm.t 2 |
350 | lib/db-btree.t 20 |
351 | lib/db-hash.t 16 |
352 | lib/db-recno.t 18 |
353 | lib/gdbm.t 2 |
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354 | lib/ndbm.t 2 |
355 | lib/odbm.t 2 |
356 | lib/sdbm.t 2 |
357 | op/stat.t 9, 20 (.tmp not an executable extension) |
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358 | |
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359 | =head2 Hard Links |
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360 | |
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361 | FAT partitions do not support hard links (whereas NTFS does), in which |
362 | case Cygwin implements link() by copying the file. These tests will fail: |
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363 | |
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364 | Failed Test List of failed |
365 | ------------------------------------ |
366 | io/fs.t 4 |
367 | op/stat.t 3 |
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368 | |
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369 | =head2 Filetime Granularity |
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370 | |
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371 | On FAT partitions the filetime granularity is 2 seconds. The following |
372 | test will fail: |
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373 | |
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374 | Failed Test List of failed |
375 | ------------------------------------ |
376 | io/fs.t 18 |
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377 | |
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378 | =head2 Tainting Checks |
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379 | |
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380 | When Perl is running in taint mode, C<$ENV{PATH}> is considered tainted |
381 | and not used, so DLLs not in the default system directories will not |
382 | be found. While the tests are running you will see warnings popup from |
383 | the system with messages like: |
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384 | |
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385 | Win9x |
386 | Error Starting Program |
387 | A required .DLL file, CYGWIN1.DLL, was not found |
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388 | |
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389 | WinNT |
390 | perl.exe or sh.exe - Unable to Locate DLL |
391 | The dynamic link library cygwin1.dll could not be found in the |
392 | specified path ... |
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393 | |
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394 | Just click OK and ignore them. When running `C<make test>', 2 popups |
395 | occur. During `C<./perl harness>', 4 popups occur. Also, these tests |
396 | will fail: |
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397 | |
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398 | Failed Test List of failed |
399 | ------------------------------------ |
400 | op/taint.t 1, 3, 31, 37 |
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401 | |
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402 | Alternatively, you can copy F<cygwin1.dll> into one of the Windows system |
403 | directories (although, this is B<not> recommended). |
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404 | |
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405 | =head2 /etc/group |
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406 | |
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407 | Cygwin does not require F</etc/group>, in which case the F<op/grent.t> |
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408 | test will be skipped. The check performed by F<op/grent.t> expects to |
409 | see entries that use the members field, otherwise this test will fail: |
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410 | |
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411 | Failed Test List of failed |
412 | ------------------------------------ |
413 | op/grent.t 1 |
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414 | |
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415 | =head2 Unexplained Failures |
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416 | |
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417 | Any additional tests that fail are likely due to bugs in Cygwin or the |
418 | optional libraries. It is expected that by the time of the next net |
419 | release most of these will be solved so they are not described here. |
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420 | |
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421 | =head2 Script Portability |
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422 | |
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423 | Cygwin does an outstanding job of providing UNIX-like semantics on |
424 | top of Win32 systems. However, in addition to the items noted above, |
425 | there are some differences that you should know about. This is only a |
426 | very brief guide to portability, more information can be found in the |
427 | Cygwin documentation. |
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428 | |
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429 | =over 4 |
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430 | |
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431 | =item * Pathnames |
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432 | |
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433 | Cygwin pathnames can be separated by forward (F</>) or backward (F<\>) |
434 | slashes. They may also begin with drive letters (F<C:>) or Universal |
435 | Naming Codes (F<//UNC>). DOS device names (F<aux>, F<con>, F<prn>, |
436 | F<com*>, F<lpt?>) are invalid as base filenames. However, they can be |
437 | used in extensions (e.g., F<hello.aux>). Names may not contain these |
438 | characters: |
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439 | |
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440 | : * ? " < > | |
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441 | |
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442 | File names are case insensitive, but case preserving. With the I<mixed> |
443 | C<CYGWIN> setting, file names are mixed-case (although, directory names |
444 | remain case insensitive). |
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445 | |
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446 | The I<mixed> setting is only available with the "coolview" version of |
447 | F<cygwin1.dll> provided by Sergey Okhapkin at: |
448 | |
449 | ftp://ftp.franken.de/pub/win32/develop/gnuwin32/cygwin/porters/Okhapkin_Sergey/ |
450 | |
451 | =item * Text/Binary |
452 | |
453 | When a file is opened it is in either text or binary mode. In text mode |
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454 | a file is subject to CR/LF/Ctrl-Z translations. With Cygwin, the default |
455 | mode for an open() is determined by the mode of the mount that underlies |
456 | the file. Perl provides a binmode() function to set binary mode on files |
457 | that otherwise would be treated as text. sysopen() with the C<O_TEXT> |
458 | flag sets text mode on files that otherwise would be treated as binary: |
459 | |
460 | sysopen(FOO, "bar", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TEXT) |
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461 | |
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462 | lseek(), tell() and sysseek() only work with files opened in binary mode. |
463 | |
464 | The text/binary issue is covered at length in the Cygwin documentation. |
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465 | |
466 | =item * F<.exe> |
467 | |
468 | The Cygwin stat() makes the F<.exe> extension transparent by looking for |
469 | a F<foo.exe> when you ask for F<foo> (unless a F<foo> also exists). |
470 | Cygwin does not require a F<.exe> extension, but I<gcc> adds it |
471 | automatically when building a program. However, when accessing an |
472 | executable as a normal file (e.g., I<install> or I<cp> in a makefile) |
473 | the F<.exe> is not transparent. |
474 | |
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475 | NOTE: There is a version of I<install> that understands the F<.exe> |
476 | semantics, it can be found at: |
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477 | |
478 | ftp://ftp.franken.de/pub/win32/develop/gnuwin32/cygwin/porters/Humblet_Pierre_A/ |
479 | |
480 | =item * chown() |
481 | |
482 | On WinNT with the I<ntsec> C<CYGWIN> setting, chown() can change a file's |
483 | user and group IDs. In all other configurations chown() is a no-op, |
484 | although this is appropriate on Win9x since there is no security model. |
485 | |
486 | =item * Miscellaneous |
487 | |
488 | File locking using the C<F_GETLK> command to fcntl() is a stub that |
489 | returns C<ENOSYS>. |
490 | |
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491 | Win9x can not rename() an open file (although WinNT can). |
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492 | |
493 | =back |
494 | |
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495 | =head1 INSTALL |
496 | |
497 | This will install Perl, including man pages. |
498 | |
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499 | make install | tee log.make-install |
500 | |
501 | NOTE: If C<STDERR> is redirected `C<make install>' will B<not> prompt |
502 | you to install I<perl> into F</usr/bin>. |
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503 | |
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504 | You may need to be I<Administrator> to run `C<make install>'. If you |
505 | are not, you must have write access to the directories in question. |
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506 | |
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507 | Information on installing the Perl documentation in HTML format can be |
508 | found in the F<INSTALL> document. |
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509 | |
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510 | =head1 MANIFEST |
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511 | |
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512 | These are the files in the Perl release that contain references to Cygwin. |
513 | These very brief notes attempt to explain the reason for all conditional |
514 | code. Hopefully, keeping this up to date will allow the Cygwin port to |
515 | be kept as clean as possible. |
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516 | |
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517 | =over 4 |
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518 | |
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519 | =item Documentation |
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520 | |
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521 | INSTALL |
522 | Changes Changes5.005 Changes5.004 |
523 | AUTHORS MAINTAIN MANIFEST |
524 | README.cygwin README.win32 |
525 | pod/perl.pod pod/perlfaq3.pod pod/perlhist.pod pod/perlmodlib.pod |
526 | pod/perlport.pod pod/perltoc.pod pod/perl5004delta.pod |
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527 | |
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528 | =item Build, Configure, Make, Install |
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529 | |
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530 | cygwin/Makefile.SHs |
531 | cygwin/ld2.in |
532 | cygwin/perlld.in |
533 | ext/IPC/SysV/hints/cygwin.pl |
534 | ext/NDBM_File/hints/cygwin.pl |
535 | ext/ODBM_File/hints/cygwin.pl |
536 | hints/cygwin.sh |
537 | Porting/patchls - cygwin in port list |
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538 | Makefile.SH - linklibperl |
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539 | makedepend.SH - uwinfix |
540 | Configure - help finding hints from uname, |
541 | shared libperl required for dynamic loading |
542 | installman - man pages with :: translated to . |
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543 | installperl - install dll/ld2/perlld, install to pods |
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544 | |
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545 | =item Tests |
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546 | |
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547 | t/io/tell.t - binmode |
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548 | t/lib/glob-basic.t - Win32 directory list access differs from read mode |
549 | t/op/magic.t - $^X/symlink WORKAROUND, s/.exe// |
550 | t/op/stat.t - no /dev, skip Win32 ftCreationTime quirk |
551 | (cache manager sometimes preserves ctime of file |
552 | previously created and deleted), no -u (setuid) |
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553 | |
554 | =item Compiled Perl Source |
555 | |
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556 | cygwin/cygwin.c - os_extras (getcwd) |
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557 | doio.c - win9x can not rename a file when it is open |
558 | EXTERN.h - __declspec(dllimport) |
559 | XSUB.h - __declspec(dllexport) |
560 | perl.h - binmode |
561 | mg.c - environ WORKAROUND |
562 | util.c - environ WORKAROUND |
563 | unixish.h - environ WORKAROUND |
564 | |
565 | =item Compiled Module Source |
566 | |
567 | ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs - tzname defined externally |
568 | ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/pair.c |
569 | - EXTCONST needs to be redefined from EXTERN.h |
570 | ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/sdbm.c |
571 | - binary open |
572 | |
573 | =item Perl Modules/Scripts |
574 | |
575 | lib/perl5db.pl - use stdin not /dev/tty |
576 | utils/perlcc.PL - DynaLoader.a in compile, -DUSEIMPORTLIB |
577 | utils/perldoc.PL - version comment |
578 | lib/File/Spec/Unix.pm - preserve //unc |
579 | lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm |
580 | - require MM_Cygwin.pm |
581 | lib/ExtUtils/MM_Cygwin.pm |
582 | - canonpath, cflags, manifypods, perl_archive |
583 | lib/Cwd.pm - `pwd` |
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584 | |
585 | =back |
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586 | |
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587 | =head1 BUGS |
588 | |
589 | Upon each start, I<make> warns that a rule for F<perlmain.o> is overridden |
590 | (but there seems to be no better solution than adding an explicit define). |
591 | |
592 | `C<make clean>' does not remove library F<.def> and F<.exe.stackdump> |
593 | files. |
594 | |
595 | The I<ld2> script contains references to the source directory. You should |
596 | change these to C</usr/local/bin> (or whatever) after install. |
597 | |
598 | =head1 AUTHORS |
599 | |
600 | Charles Wilson E<lt>cwilson@ece.gatech.eduE<gt>, |
601 | Eric Fifer E<lt>efifer@sanwaint.comE<gt>, |
602 | alexander smishlajev E<lt>als@turnhere.comE<gt>, |
603 | Steven Morlock E<lt>newspost@morlock.netE<gt>, |
604 | Sebastien Barre E<lt>Sebastien.Barre@utc.frE<gt>, |
605 | Teun Burgers E<lt>burgers@ecn.nlE<gt>. |
606 | |
607 | =head1 HISTORY |
608 | |
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609 | Last updated: 24 February 2000 |