=head1 NAME
-perlamiga - Perl under Amiga OS (possibly very outdated information)
+perlamiga - Perl under Amiga OS
=head1 SYNOPSIS
-NOTE: The following information is highly unlikely to be correct.
-A recent version of perl for the Amiga can be found at the Aminet site:
-
- http://us.aminet.net/aminet/dirs/dev_gg.html
-
One can read this document in the following formats:
man perlamiga
to list some (not all may be available simultaneously), or it may
be read I<as is>: either as F<README.amiga>, or F<pod/perlamiga.pod>.
+A recent version of perl for the Amiga can be found at the Geek Gadgets
+section of the Aminet:
+
+ http://www.aminet.net/~aminet/dirs/dev_gg.html
+
=cut
Contents
=item B<Unix emulation for AmigaOS: ixemul.library>
You need the Unix emulation for AmigaOS, whose most important part is
-B<ixemul.library>. For a minimum setup, get the following archives from
-the Aminet archives (http://www.aminet.net/~aminet/):
+B<ixemul.library>. For a minimum setup, get the latest versions
+of the following packages from the Aminet archives (http://www.aminet.net/~aminet/):
-ixemul-bin.lha
-ixemul-env-bin.lha
-pdksh-bin.lha
-
-Note that there might be newer versions available by the time you read
-this.
+ ixemul-bin
+ ixemul-env-bin
+ pdksh-bin
Note also that this is a minimum setup; you might want to add other
packages of B<ADE> (the I<Amiga Developers Environment>).
Extract it like this
- tar xvzpf perl$VERSION.tar.gz
+ tar xvzpf perl-$VERSION.tar.gz
You will see a message about errors while extracting F<Configure>. This
is normal and expected. (There is a conflict with a similarly-named file
F<configure>, but it causes no harm.)
=head2 Making
+
+ remember to use a hefty wad of stack (I use 2000000)
+
+ sh configure.gnu --prefix=/gg
+
+ the makedepend script has to be edited if it fails
+
+ change $cat to /bin/cat at line 75
+ change cat to /bin/cat at line 163
+ change cat to /bin/cat at line 176 (both)
+ change $cat to /bin/cat at line 190
- sh configure.gnu --prefix=/ade
+ now type make depend
-Now
+Now!
make
make install
-=head1 AUTHOR
+=head1 AUTHORS
Norbert Pueschel, pueschel@imsdd.meb.uni-bonn.de
+Jan-Erik Karlsson, trg@privat.utfors.se
=head1 SEE ALSO