A recent version of perl for the Amiga can be found at the Geek Gadgets
section of the Aminet:
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+
http://www.aminet.net/~aminet/dirs/dev_gg.html
=cut
- GNU info files
- LaTeX docs
BUILD
- - Prerequisites
+ - Build Prerequisites
- Getting the perl source
- Application of the patches
- Making
Here we discuss how to build Perl under AmigaOS.
-=head2 Prerequisites
+=head2 Build Prerequisites
You need to have the latest B<ixemul> (Unix emulation for Amiga)
from Aminet.
F<configure>, but it causes no harm.)
=head2 Making
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-=over 4
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-=item *
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-remember to use a healthy sized stack (I used 2000000)
-
-=item *
-
-your PATH environment variable must include /bin (e.g. ".:/bin" is good)
-(or, more precisely, it must include the directory where you have your
-basic UNIX utilities like test, cat, sed, and so on)
-=item *
-
- sh Configure -Dprefix=/ade -Dloclibpth=/ade/lib
+Remember to use a hefty wad of stack (I use 2000000)
-=item *
+ sh configure.gnu --prefix=/gg
-now type make depend
+Now type
- when the make depend has ended load the gnumakefile into a editor and
- go to the end of the file
- move upwards in the file until you reach av.o: EXTERN.h
- and delete all lines down to # WARNING: Put....
-
-=item *
-
-now go to the x2p directory
-
- load the gnumakefile
- go to the end moveup until you reach hash.o: EXTERN.h
- and delete all lines dowonwards until you reach
- # WARNING: Put nothing....
-
-=item *
+ make depend
Now!
make
-=back
-
=head2 Testing
Now run