X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README.freebsd;h=77c297bec6d4579f581741f01f9a9b400014f678;hb=23f3589e21445e9141901c2894bc97b457493332;hp=e147c66843fae005ed6e56428e2ba3b0702bfe05;hpb=d41150a633c012f8c6a2c9d01f78708b471bfe01;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git diff --git a/README.freebsd b/README.freebsd index e147c66..77c297b 100644 --- a/README.freebsd +++ b/README.freebsd @@ -11,16 +11,16 @@ README.freebsd - Perl version 5 on FreeBSD systems This document describes various features of FreeBSD that will affect how Perl version 5 (hereafter just Perl) is compiled and/or runs. -=head2 core dumps from readdir_r with ithreads +=head2 FreeBSD core dumps from readdir_r with ithreads When perl is configured to use ithreads, it will use re-entrant library calls in preference to non-re-entrant versions. There is a bug in FreeBSD's -C function that can cause a SEGV when reading large directories. -A patch is available +C function in versions 4.5 and earlier that can cause a SEGV when +reading large directories. A patch for FreeBSD libc is available (see http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=misc/30631 ) -and will hopefully be integrated into FreeBSD 4.6. +which has been integrated into FreeBSD 4.6. -=head2 $^X doesn't always contain a full path +=head2 $^X doesn't always contain a full path in FreeBSD perl 5.8.0 sets C<$^X> where possible to a full path by asking the operating system. On FreeBSD the full path of the perl interpreter is found by reading @@ -30,6 +30,14 @@ result of reading this symlink is can be wrong in certain circumstances In these cases perl will fall back to the old behaviour of using C's argv[0] value for C<$^X>. +=head2 Perl will no longer be part of "base FreeBSD" + +Not as bad as it sounds--what this means is that Perl will no longer be +part of the B of FreeBSD. Perl will still very +probably be part of the "default install", and in any case the latest +version will be in the ports system. The first FreeBSD version this +change will affect is 5.0, all 4.n versions will keep the status quo. + =head1 AUTHOR Nicholas Clark , collating wisdom supplied by Slaven Rezic