make
make test
make install
+ # possibly add these:
+ (cd /usr/include && h2ph *.h sys/*.h)
+ cd pod; make html && mv *.html <www home dir> && cd ..
+ cd pod; make tex && <process the latex files> && cd ..
+
Each of these is explained in further detail below.
By default, Configure will offer to build every extension which appears
to be supported. For example, Configure will offer to build GDBM_File
only if it is able to find the gdbm library. (See examples below.)
-DynaLoader, Fcntl, FileHandle and IO are always built by default.
-Configure does not contain code to test for POSIX compliance, so POSIX
-is always built by default as well. If you wish to skip POSIX, you can
-set the Configure variable useposix=false either in a hint file or from
-the Configure command line. Similarly, the Opcode extension is always
-built by default, but you can skip it by setting the Configure variable
+DynaLoader, Fcntl, and IO are always built by default. Configure does
+not contain code to test for POSIX compliance, so POSIX is always built
+by default as well. If you wish to skip POSIX, you can set the
+Configure variable useposix=false either in a hint file or from the
+Configure command line. Similarly, the Opcode extension is always built
+by default, but you can skip it by setting the Configure variable
useopcode=false either in a hint file for from the command line.
Even if you do not have dynamic loading, you must still build the
DB_File i_db
DynaLoader (Must always be included as a static extension)
Fcntl (Always included by default)
- FileHandle (Always included by default)
GDBM_File i_gdbm
IO (Always included by default)
NDBM_File i_ndbm
In order to support using things like #!/usr/local/bin/perl5.002 after
a later version is released, architecture-dependent libraries are
stored in a version-specific directory, such as
-/usr/local/lib/perl5/archname/5.002/. In 5.000 and 5.001, these files
-were just stored in /usr/local/lib/perl5/archname/. If you will not be
-using 5.001 binaries, you can delete the standard extensions from the
-/usr/local/lib/perl5/archname/ directory. Locally-added extensions can
-be moved to the site_perl and site_perl/archname directories.
+/usr/local/lib/perl5/archname/5.002/. In Perl 5.000 and 5.001, these
+files were just stored in /usr/local/lib/perl5/archname/. If you will
+not be using 5.001 binaries, you can delete the standard extensions from
+the /usr/local/lib/perl5/archname/ directory. Locally-added extensions
+can be moved to the site_perl and site_perl/archname directories.
Again, these are just the defaults, and can be changed as you run
Configure.
results.
The default name for the shared library is typically something like
-libperl.so.3.2 (for perl5.003_02) or libperl.so.302 or simply
+libperl.so.3.2 (for Perl 5.003_02) or libperl.so.302 or simply
libperl.so. Configure tries to guess a sensible naming convention
based on your C library name. Since the library gets installed in a
version-specific architecture-dependent directory, the exact name
There is also an potential problem with the shared perl library if you
want to have more than one "flavor" of the same version of perl (e.g.
with and without -DDEBUGGING). For example, suppose you build and
-install a standard perl5.004 with a shared library. Then, suppose you
-try to build perl5.004 with -DDEBUGGING enabled, but everything else
+install a standard Perl 5.004 with a shared library. Then, suppose you
+try to build Perl 5.004 with -DDEBUGGING enabled, but everything else
the same, including all the installation directories. How can you
ensure that your newly built perl will link with your newly built
libperl.so.4 rather with the installed libperl.so.4? The answer is
=back
+=head1 Binary Compatibility With Perl 5.003
+
+Perl 5.003 turned on the EMBED feature by default, which tries to
+avoid possible symbol name conflict by prefixing all global symbols
+with "Perl_". However, its list of global symbols was incomplete.
+This error has been rectified in Perl 5.004.
+
+However, some sites may need to maintain complete binary compatibility
+with Perl 5.003. If you are building Perl for such a site, then when
+B<Configure> asks if you want binary compatibility, answer "y".
+
=head1 make depend
This will look for all the includes.
Machines with half-implemented dbm routines will need to #undef I_ODBM
+db-recno failure on tests 51, 53 and 55: Old versions of the DB library
+(including the DB library which comes with FreeBSD 2.1) had broken
+handling of recno databases with modified bval settings. Upgrade your
+DB library or OS.
+
=back
=head1 make test
under the old binaries for versions 5.003 and later ONLY. Instead of
starting your script with #!/usr/local/bin/perl, just start it with
#!/usr/local/bin/perl5.003 (or whatever version you want to run.)
-If you want to retain a version of perl5 prior to perl5.003, you'll
+If you want to retain a version of Perl 5 prior to 5.003, you'll
need to install the current version in a separate directory tree,
since some of the architecture-independent library files have changed
in incompatible ways.
The architecture-dependent files are stored in a version-specific
directory (such as F</usr/local/lib/perl5/sun4-sunos/5.002>) so that
-they are still accessible. I<Note:> perl5.000 and perl5.001 did not
+they are still accessible. I<Note:> Perl 5.000 and 5.001 did not
put their architecture-dependent libraries in a version-specific
directory. They are simply in F</usr/local/lib/perl5/$archname>. If
you will not be using 5.000 or 5.001, you may safely remove those
version of perl. If you do run into problems, and you want to continue
to use the old version of perl along with your extension, simply move
those extension files to the appropriate version directory, such as
-F</usr/local/lib/perl/archname/5.002>. Then perl5.002 will find your
+F</usr/local/lib/perl/archname/5.002>. Then Perl 5.002 will find your
files in the 5.002 directory, and newer versions of perl will find your
newer extension in the site_perl directory.
may also wish to add a symbolic link /usr/local/bin/perl so that
scripts can still start with #!/usr/local/bin/perl.
-B<NOTE>: Starting with 5.002_01, all functions in the perl C source
+B<NOTE>: Starting with Perl 5.002_01, all functions in the perl C source
code are protected by default by the prefix Perl_ (or perl_) so that
you may link with third-party libraries without fear of namespace
collisons. This breaks compatability with
can type B<perldoc perl> to use the supplied B<perldoc> script. This
is sometimes useful for finding things in the library modules.
+Under UNIX, you can produce a documentation book in postscript form
+along with its I<Table of Contents> by going to the pod/ subdirectory
+and running (either):
+
+ ./roffitall -groff # If you have GNU groff installed
+ ./roffitall -psroff # Otherwise
+
+This will leave you with two postscript files ready to be printed.
+
+Note that you must have performed the installation already before
+running the above, since the script collects the installed files to
+generate the documentation.
+
=head1 AUTHOR
Andy Dougherty <doughera@lafcol.lafayette.edu>, borrowing I<very> heavily
=head1 LAST MODIFIED
-9 October 1996
+16 January 1997
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