X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=pod%2Fperl.pod;h=7291b847e8c93b27a02404f3df3d5048b04cd6d8;hb=ba58ab2683569fa823a7a9d7799f01b76d4cfe57;hp=d52aff30fa071440f1fe51102ccfd34315472fd9;hpb=954c1994944eafa74aaac1bab94e820b6e447da9;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git diff --git a/pod/perl.pod b/pod/perl.pod index d52aff3..7291b84 100644 --- a/pod/perl.pod +++ b/pod/perl.pod @@ -35,12 +35,14 @@ sections: perlmodlib Perl modules: how to write and use perlmodinstall Perl modules: how to install from CPAN perlform Perl formats + perlunicode Perl unicode support perllocale Perl locale support perlreftut Perl references short introduction perlref Perl references, the rest of the story perldsc Perl data structures intro perllol Perl data structures: arrays of arrays + perlboot Perl OO tutorial for beginners perltoot Perl OO tutorial, part 1 perltootc Perl OO tutorial, part 2 perlobj Perl objects @@ -49,11 +51,14 @@ sections: perlipc Perl interprocess communication perlfork Perl fork() information perlthrtut Perl threads tutorial - perldbmfilter Perl DBM Filters + perllexwarn Perl warnings and their control + perlfilter Perl source filters + perldbmfilter Perl DBM filters perlcompile Perl compiler suite intro perldebug Perl debugging perldiag Perl diagnostic messages + perlnumber Perl number semantics perlsec Perl security perltrap Perl traps for the unwary perlport Perl portability guide @@ -75,6 +80,15 @@ sections: perlhack Perl hackers guide perlhist Perl history records + perlamiga Perl notes for Amiga + perlcygwin Perl notes for Cygwin + perldos Perl notes for DOS + perlhpux Perl notes for HP-UX + perlos2 Perl notes for OS/2 + perlos390 Perl notes for OS/390 + perlvms Perl notes for VMS + perlwin32 Perl notes for Windows + (If you're intending to read these straight through for the first time, the suggested order will tend to reduce the number of forward references.) @@ -208,73 +222,8 @@ Okay, that's I enough hype. =head1 AVAILABILITY Perl is available for most operating systems, including virtually -all Unix-like platforms. - -As of May 1999, the following platforms are able to build Perl -from the standard source code distribution available at -http://www.perl.com/CPAN/src/index.html - - AIX Linux SCO ODT/OSR - A/UX MachTen Solaris - BeOS MPE/iX SunOS - BSD/OS NetBSD SVR4 - DG/UX NextSTEP Tru64 UNIX 3) - DomainOS OpenBSD Ultrix - DOS DJGPP 1) OpenSTEP UNICOS - DYNIX/ptx OS/2 VMS - FreeBSD OS390 2) VOS - HP-UX PowerMAX Windows 3.1 1) - Hurd QNX Windows 95 1) 4) - IRIX Windows 98 1) 4) - Windows NT 1) 4) - - 1) in DOS mode either the DOS or OS/2 ports can be used - 2) formerly known as MVS - 3) formerly known as Digital UNIX and before that DEC OSF/1 - 4) compilers: Borland, Cygwin, Mingw32 EGCS/GCC, VC++ - -The following platforms have been known to build Perl from source, -but we haven't been able to verify their status for the current release, -either because the hardware/software platforms are rare or -because we don't have an active champion on these platforms--or both. - - 3b1 FPS Plan 9 - AmigaOS GENIX PowerUX - ConvexOS Greenhills RISC/os - CX/UX ISC Stellar - DC/OSx MachTen 68k SVR2 - DDE SMES MiNT TI1500 - DOS EMX MPC TitanOS - Dynix NEWS-OS UNICOS/mk - EP/IX Opus Unisys Dynix - ESIX Unixware - -Support for the following platforms is planned for the next major -Perl release. - - BS2000 - Netware - Rhapsody - VM/ESA - -The following platforms have their own source code distributions and -binaries available via http://www.perl.com/CPAN/ports/index.html. - - Perl release - - AS/400 5.003 - MacOS 5.004 - Netware 5.003_07 - Tandem Guardian 5.004 - -The following platforms have only binaries available via -http://www.perl.com/CPAN/ports/index.html. - - Perl release - - Acorn RISCOS 5.005_02 - AOS 5.002 - LynxOS 5.004_02 +all Unix-like platforms. See L +for a listing. =head1 ENVIRONMENT @@ -303,7 +252,8 @@ Perl developers, please write to perl-thanks@perl.org . =head1 DIAGNOSTICS -The B<-w> switch produces some lovely diagnostics. +The C pragma (and the B<-w> switch) produces some +lovely diagnostics. See L for explanations of all Perl's diagnostics. The C pragma automatically turns Perl's normally terse warnings @@ -342,7 +292,7 @@ affected by wraparound). You may mail your bug reports (be sure to include full configuration information as output by the myconfig program in the perl source tree, or by C) to perlbug@perl.com . If you've succeeded -in compiling perl, the perlbug script in the utils/ subdirectory +in compiling perl, the B script in the F subdirectory can be used to help mail in a bug report. Perl actually stands for Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister, but