Mention /usr/share/locale.

[p5sagit/p5-mst-13.2.git] / hints / linux.sh

diff --git a/hints/linux.sh b/hints/linux.sh
index 7347945..9b69e9b 100644 (file)
--- a/hints/linux.sh
+++ b/hints/linux.sh
@@ -18,6 +18,27 @@
 # No version of Linux supports setuid scripts.
 d_suidsafe='undef'
 
+# Debian and Red Hat, and perhaps other vendors, provide both runtime and
+# development packages for some libraries.  The runtime packages contain shared
+# libraries with version information in their names (e.g., libgdbm.so.1.7.3);
+# the development packages supplement this with versionless shared libraries
+# (e.g., libgdbm.so).
+#
+# If you want to link against such a library, you must install the development
+# version of the package.
+#
+# These packages use a -dev naming convention in both Debian and Red Hat:
+#   libgdbmg1  (non-development version of GNU libc 2-linked GDBM library)
+#   libgdbmg1-dev (development version of GNU libc 2-linked GDBM library)
+# So make sure that for any libraries you wish to link Perl with under
+# Debian or Red Hat you have the -dev packages installed.
+#
+# Some operating systems (e.g., Solaris 2.6) will link to a versioned shared
+# library implicitly.  For example, on Solaris, `ld foo.o -lgdbm' will find an
+# appropriate version of libgdbm, if one is available; Linux, however, doesn't
+# do the implicit mapping.
+ignore_versioned_solibs='y'
+
 # perl goes into the /usr tree.  See the Filesystem Standard
 # available via anonymous FTP at tsx-11.mit.edu in
 # /pub/linux/docs/linux-standards/fsstnd.
@@ -170,8 +191,8 @@ fi
 if [  ! "`csh -c 'echo $version' 2>/dev/null`"  ] 
 then
     echo 'Real csh found (might break); looking for tcsh ...'
-    # Use ../UU/loc to find tcsh.  (We run in the hints/ directory.)
-    if xxx=`../UU/loc tcsh blurfl $pth`; $test -f "$xxx"; then
+    # Use ./UU/loc to find tcsh.  (We no longer run in the hints/ directory)
+    if xxx=`./UU/loc tcsh blurfl $pth`; $test -f "$xxx"; then
        echo "Found tcsh.  I'll use it for globbing."
        # We can't change Configure's setting of $csh, due to the way
        # Configure handles $d_portable and commands found in $loclist.
@@ -195,21 +216,3 @@ fi
 # it should be:
 # ccdlflags='-Wl,-E'
 
-# XXX EXPERIMENTAL  A.D.  2/27/1998
-# XXX This script UU/usethreads.cbu will get 'called-back' by Configure 
-# XXX after it has prompted the user for whether to use threads.
-cat > UU/usethreads.cbu <<'EOSH'
-case "$usethreads" in
-$define|true|[yY]*)
-    ccflags="-D_REENTRANT $ccflags"
-    # -lpthread needs to come before -lc but after other libraries such
-    # as -lgdbm and such like. We assume here that -lc is present in
-    # libswanted. If that fails to be true in future, then this can be
-    # changed to add pthread to the very end of libswanted.
-    set `echo X "$libswanted "| sed -e 's/ c / pthread c /'`
-    shift
-    libswanted="$*"
-    ;;
-esac
-EOSH
-# XXX EXPERIMENTAL  --end of call-back