Mention /usr/share/locale.

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

diff --git a/hints/linux.sh b/hints/linux.sh
index 8ddb765..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.
@@ -29,16 +50,9 @@ esac
 # gcc-2.6.3 defines _G_HAVE_BOOL to 1, but doesn't actually supply bool.
 ccflags="-Dbool=char -DHAS_BOOL $ccflags"
 
-# libc6, aka glibc2, seems to need STRUCT_TM_HASZONE defined.
-# Thanks to Bart Schuller <schuller@Lunatech.com>
-# See Message-ID: <19971009002636.50729@tanglefoot>
-# This is currently commented out for maintenance releases
-# but should probably be uncommented for 5.005 or after
-# more widespread testing.
-#POSIX_cflags='ccflags="$ccflags -DSTRUCT_TM_HASZONE"'
-
 # BSD compatability library no longer needed
-set `echo X "$libswanted "| sed -e 's/ bsd / /'`
+# 'kaffe' has a /usr/lib/libnet.so which is not at all relevent for perl.
+set `echo X "$libswanted "| sed -e 's/ bsd / /' -e 's/ net / /'`
 shift
 libswanted="$*"
 
@@ -177,8 +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.