adjust searchdict.t for EBCDIC (still needs documenting)

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

diff --git a/hints/machten.sh b/hints/machten.sh
index 75cbc0d..f283873 100644 (file)
--- a/hints/machten.sh
+++ b/hints/machten.sh
@@ -13,6 +13,12 @@
 #      Martijn Koster <m.koster@webcrawler.com>
 #      Richard Yeh <rcyeh@cco.caltech.edu>
 #
+# For now, explicitly disable dynamic loading -- MT 4.1.1 has it,
+# but these hints do not yet support it.
+# Define NOTEDEF_MACHTEN to undo gratuitous Tenon hack to signal.h.
+#                      -- Dominic Dunlop <domo@computer.org> 9800802
+# Completely disable SysV IPC pending more complete support from Tenon
+#                      -- Dominic Dunlop <domo@computer.org> 980712
 # Use vfork and perl's malloc by default
 #                      -- Dominic Dunlop <domo@computer.org> 980630
 # Raise perl's stack size again; cut down reg_infty; document
@@ -30,8 +36,16 @@
 #
 # Comments, questions, and improvements welcome!
 #
-# MachTen 4.X does support dynamic loading, but perl doesn't
+# MachTen 4.1.1 does support dynamic loading, but perl doesn't
 # know how to use it yet.
+usedl=${usedl:-undef}
+
+# MachTen 4.1.1 may have an unhelpful hack in /usr/include/signal.h.
+# Undo it if so.
+if grep NOTDEF_MACHTEN /usr/include/signal.h > /dev/null
+then
+    ccflags="$ccflags -DNOTDEF_MACHTEN"
+fi
 
 # Power MachTen is a real memory system and its standard malloc
 # has been optimized for this. Using this malloc instead of Perl's
@@ -136,8 +150,12 @@ alignbytes=8
 # friends.  Use setjmp and friends instead.
 expr "$osvers" \< "4.0.3" > /dev/null && d_sigsetjmp='undef'
 
-# semctl(.., ..,  IPC_STATUS, ..) hangs system: say we don't have semctl()
-d_semctl='undef'
+# System V IPC support in MachTen 4.1 is incomplete (missing msg function
+# prototypes, no ftok()), buggy (semctl(.., ..,  IPC_STATUS, ..) hangs
+# system), and undocumented.  Claim it's not there until things improve.
+d_msg=${d_msg:-undef}
+d_sem=${d_sem:-undef}
+d_shm=${d_shm:-undef}
 
 # Get rid of some extra libs which it takes Configure a tediously
 # long time never to find on MachTen
@@ -164,11 +182,12 @@ cat <<EOM >&4
 During Configure, you may see the message
 
 *** WHOA THERE!!! ***
-    The recommended value for \$d_semctl on this machine was "undef"!
+    The recommended value for \$d_msg on this machine was "undef"!
     Keep the recommended value? [y]
 
-Select the default answer: semctl() is buggy, and perl should be built
-without it.
+as well as similar messages concerning \$d_sem and \$d_shm.  Select the
+default answers: MachTen 4.1 appears to provide System V IPC support,
+but it is incomplete and buggy: perl should be built without it.
 
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