'') usenm='false' ;;
esac
-# Dynamic loading doesn't work on OS/390 quite yet.
-# However the easiest way to experiment with dynamic loading is with:
-# Configure -Dusedl
-# You can even override some of this with things like:
+# Setting ldflags='-Wl,EDIT=NO' will get rid of the symbol
+# information at the end of the executable (=> smaller binaries).
+# Override this option with -Dldflags='whatever else you wanted'.
+case "$ldflags" in
+'') ldflags='-Wl,EDIT=NO' ;;
+esac
+
+# In order to build with dynamic be sure to specify:
+# Configure -Dusedl
+# Do not forget to add $archlibexp/CORE to your LIBPATH.
+# You might want to override some of this with things like:
# Configure -Dusedl -Ddlext=so -Ddlsrc=dl_dllload.xs.
case "$usedl" in
'')
libperl="libperl.$so"
ccflags="$ccflags -D_SHR_ENVIRON -DPERL_EXTERNAL_GLOB -Wc,dll"
cccdlflags='-c -Wc,dll,EXPORTALL'
- # You might add '-Wl,EDIT=NO' to get rid of the symbol
- # information at the end of the executable (=> smaller binaries).
- # Do so with -Dldflags='-Wl,EDIT=NO'.
- case "$ldflags" in
- '') ldflags='' ;;
- esac
# The following will need to be modified for the installed libperl.x.
# The modification to Config.pm is done by the installperl script after the build and test.
ccdlflags="-W l,dll `pwd`/libperl.x"
fi
fi
+# Most of the time gcvt() seems to work fine but
+# sometimes values like 0.1, 0.2, come out as "10", "20",
+# a trivial Perl demonstration snippet is 'print 0.1'.
+# The -W 0,float(ieee) seems to be the switch breaking gcvt().
+# sprintf() seems to get things right(er).
+gconvert_preference=sprintf
+
+cat >config.arch<<'__CONFIG_ARCH__'
+# The '-W 0,float(ieee)' cannot be used during Configure as ldflags.
+
+ccflags="$ccflags -W 0,float(ieee)"
+
+__CONFIG_ARCH__