distribution available at http://www.perl.com/CPAN/src/index.html
AIX
- DOS DJGPP 1)
+ DOS DJGPP 1)
FreeBSD
HP-UX
IRIX
Linux
+ LynxOS
MachTen
MPE/iX
NetBSD
3) formerly known as Digital UNIX and before that DEC OSF/1
4) compilers: Borland, Cygwin, Mingw32 EGCS/GCC, VC++
-The following platforms worked for the previous major release (5.005_03
-being the latest maintenance release of that, as of March 2000), but we
-did not manage to test these in time for the 5.6.0 release of Perl.
-There is a very good chance that these will work just fine with 5.6.0.
+The following platforms worked for the previous major release
+(5.005_03 being the latest maintenance release of that, as of early
+March 2000), but be did not manage to test these in time for the 5.6.0
+release of Perl. There is a very good chance that these will work
+just fine with 5.6.0.
A/UX
BeOS
Ultrix
The following platform worked for the previous major release (5.005_03
-being the latest maintenance release of that, as of March 2000).
+being the latest maintenance release of that, as of early March 2000).
However, standardization on UTF-8 as the internal string representation
-in 5.6.0 has introduced incompatibilities with this EBCDIC platform.
+in 5.6.0 has introduced incompatibilities in this EBCDIC platform.
Support for this platform may be enabled in a future release:
OS390 1)
Netware
The following platforms have their own source code distributions and
-binaries available via http://www.perl.com/CPAN/ports/index.html :
+binaries available via http://www.perl.com/CPAN/ports/index.html:
Perl release
Tandem Guardian 5.004
The following platforms have only binaries available via
-http://www.perl.com/CPAN/ports/index.html :
+http://www.perl.com/CPAN/ports/index.html:
Perl release
AOS 5.002
LynxOS 5.004_02
+Although we do suggest that you always build your own Perl from
+the source code, both for maximal configurability and for security,
+in case you are in a hurry you can check
+http://www.perl.com/CPAN/ports/index.html for binary distributions.
+
=head1 ENVIRONMENT
See L<perlrun>.
=head1 DIAGNOSTICS
-The B<-w> switch produces some lovely diagnostics.
+The C<use warnings> pragma (and the B<-w> switch) produces some
+lovely diagnostics.
See L<perldiag> for explanations of all Perl's diagnostics. The C<use
diagnostics> pragma automatically turns Perl's normally terse warnings