X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=10ce5a8e322805423250fdf51f2858d08ef45254;hb=7dbf5f4e6069c22d26a7471f2237d212d602f47c;hp=df960443e312c83835c33278f775e731113435c8;hpb=03a14243eca2d4d041778dac4abcfa3a19c06a56;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git diff --git a/README b/README index df96044..10ce5a8 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,97 +1,84 @@ - Perl Kit, Version 3.0 + Perl Kit, Version 5 - Copyright (c) 1989, Larry Wall + Copyright (C) 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, + 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 by Larry Wall and others + + All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify - it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by - the Free Software Foundation; either version 1, or (at your option) - any later version. + it under the terms of either: + + a) the GNU General Public License as published by the Free + Software Foundation; either version 1, or (at your option) any + later version, or + + b) the "Artistic License" which comes with this Kit. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of - MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the - GNU General Public License for more details. - - You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License - along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software - Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. + MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See either + the GNU General Public License or the Artistic License for more details. + + You should have received a copy of the Artistic License with this + Kit, in the file named "Artistic". If not, I'll be glad to provide one. + + You should also have received a copy of the GNU General Public License + along with this program in the file named "Copying". If not, write to the + Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA + 02111-1307, USA or visit their web page on the internet at + http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html. + + For those of you that choose to use the GNU General Public License, + my interpretation of the GNU General Public License is that no Perl + script falls under the terms of the GPL unless you explicitly put + said script under the terms of the GPL yourself. Furthermore, any + object code linked with perl does not automatically fall under the + terms of the GPL, provided such object code only adds definitions + of subroutines and variables, and does not otherwise impair the + resulting interpreter from executing any standard Perl script. I + consider linking in C subroutines in this manner to be the moral + equivalent of defining subroutines in the Perl language itself. You + may sell such an object file as proprietary provided that you provide + or offer to provide the Perl source, as specified by the GNU General + Public License. (This is merely an alternate way of specifying input + to the program.) You may also sell a binary produced by the dumping of + a running Perl script that belongs to you, provided that you provide or + offer to provide the Perl source as specified by the GPL. (The + fact that a Perl interpreter and your code are in the same binary file + is, in this case, a form of mere aggregation.) This is my interpretation + of the GPL. If you still have concerns or difficulties understanding + my intent, feel free to contact me. Of course, the Artistic License + spells all this out for your protection, so you may prefer to use that. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -Perl is a language that combines some of the features of C, sed, awk and shell. -See the manual page for more hype. - -Perl will probably not run on machines with a small address space. +Perl is a language that combines some of the features of C, sed, awk +and shell. See the manual page for more hype. There are also many Perl +books available, covering a wide variety of topics, from various publishers. +See pod/perlbook.pod for more information. Please read all the directions below before you proceed any further, and then follow them carefully. -After you have unpacked your kit, you should have all the files listed -in MANIFEST. - Installation -1) Run Configure. This will figure out various things about your system. - Some things Configure will figure out for itself, other things it will - ask you about. It will then proceed to make config.h, config.sh, and - Makefile. - - You might possibly have to trim # comments from the front of Configure - if your sh doesn't handle them, but all other # comments will be taken - care of. - - (If you don't have sh, you'll have to copy the sample file config.H to - config.h and edit the config.h to reflect your system's peculiarities.) - -2) Glance through config.h to make sure system dependencies are correct. - Most of them should have been taken care of by running the Configure script. - - If you have any additional changes to make to the C definitions, they - can be done in the Makefile, or in config.h. Bear in mind that they will - get undone next time you run Configure. - -3) make depend - - This will look for all the includes and modify Makefile accordingly. - Configure will offer to do this for you. - -4) make - - This will attempt to make perl in the current directory. - -5) make test - - This will run the regression tests on the perl you just made. - If it doesn't say "All tests successful" then something went wrong. - See the README in the t subdirectory. Note that you can't run it - in background if this disables opening of /dev/tty. If "make test" - bombs out, just cd to the t directory and run TEST by hand to see if - it makes any difference. - -6) make install - - This will put perl into a public directory (such as /usr/local/bin). - It will also try to put the man pages in a reasonable place. It will not - nroff the man page, however. You may need to be root to do this. If - you are not root, you must own the directories in question and you should - ignore any messages about chown not working. - -7) Read the manual entry before running perl. +1) Detailed instructions are in the file "INSTALL", which you should +read if you are either installing on a system resembling Unix +or porting perl to another platform. For non-Unix platforms, see the +corresponding README. -8) IMPORTANT! Help save the world! Communicate any problems and suggested - patches to me, lwall@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov (Larry Wall), so we can - keep the world in sync. If you have a problem, there's someone else - out there who either has had or will have the same problem. +2) Read the manual entries before running perl. - If possible, send in patches such that the patch program will apply them. - Context diffs are the best, then normal diffs. Don't send ed scripts-- - I've probably changed my copy since the version you have. +3) IMPORTANT! Help save the world! Communicate any problems and suggested +patches to perlbug@perl.org so we can keep the world in sync. +If you have a problem, there's someone else out there who either has had +or will have the same problem. See the section on "Reporting Problems" +in the INSTALL file. - Watch for perl patches in comp.sources.bugs. Patches will generally be - in a form usable by the patch program. If you are just now bringing up - perl and aren't sure how many patches there are, write to me and I'll - send any you don't have. Your current patch level is shown in patchlevel.h. +The latest versions of perl are always available on the various CPAN +(Comprehensive Perl Archive Network) sites around the world. +See http://www.cpan.org/src/ . Just a personal note: I want you to know that I create nice things like this