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-# *** README.mint
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+If you read this file _as_is_, just ignore the funny characters you see.
+It is written in the POD format (see pod/perlpod.pod) which is specially
+designed to be readable as is.
+
+=head1 NAME
+
+README.mint - Perl version 5 on Atari MiNT
+
+=head1 DESCRIPTION
If you want to build perl yourself on MiNT (or maybe on an Atari without
MiNT) you may want to accept some advice from somebody who already did it...
standard envariables like $PATH, $HOME, ... are set, there is a
POSIX compliant shell in /bin/sh, and...)
-Known problems
-==============
+=head1 Known problems with Perl on MiNT
The problems you may encounter when building perl on your machine
are most probably due to deficiencies in MiNT resp. the Atari
This doesn't establish a stack of 2 Bytes only as you might
think. It really reserves one half of the available memory
for cc1's stack. A setting of 1 would reserve the entire
-memory for cc1, 3 would reserve three thirds. You will have
+memory for cc1, 3 would reserve three fourths. You will have
to find out the value that suits to your system yourself.
-BTW, cc1 is maybe a little hard to find. It is generally installed
-as
- /usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/<platform>/<gcc-version>/cc1
-
-where <platform> is probably something like "m68k-atari-mint"
-and <version> is the gcc version you use (find out with
-"gcc --version"). Maybe "gcc-lib" is not installed in
-"/usr/local/lib" but "/usr/lib" on your system.
+To find out the location of the program `cc1' simply type
+`gcc --print-prog-name cc1' at your shell prompt.
Now run make (maybe "make -k"). If you get a fatal signal 10
increase cc1's stacksize, if you run out of memory you should
Have fun with Perl!
+=head1 AUTHOR
+
Guido Flohr
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-mailto:gufl0000@stud.uni-sb.de
-http://stud.uni-sb.de/~gufl0000
+
+ mailto:gufl0000@stud.uni-sb.de
+ http://stud.uni-sb.de/~gufl0000
+