X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=pod%2Fperlport.pod;h=44c79de6f8bb00fe66c60b658e1a35b056feb5de;hb=8514a05ad77d06390899752b405c952ef7bae9d5;hp=a90d4cdaba4744e44fe75da5ec2b0304e78f67cb;hpb=68fb0eb7ecdd3258dde75aba3e98109bd2bcc6c3;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git diff --git a/pod/perlport.pod b/pod/perlport.pod index a90d4cd..44c79de 100644 --- a/pod/perlport.pod +++ b/pod/perlport.pod @@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ newlines: #... } -You can get away with this on Unix and MacOS (they have a single +You can get away with this on Unix and Mac OS (they have a single character end-of-line), but the same program will break under DOSish perls because you're only chop()ing half the end-of-line. Instead, chomp() should be used to trim newlines. The Dunce::Files module can @@ -373,7 +373,7 @@ Three-arg open can also help protect against this translation in cases where it is undesirable. Don't use C<:> as a part of a filename since many systems use that for -their own semantics (MacOS Classic for separating pathname components, +their own semantics (Mac OS Classic for separating pathname components, many networking schemes and utilities for separating the nodename and the pathname, and so on). For the same reasons, avoid C<@>, C<;> and C<|>. @@ -832,6 +832,13 @@ Win32::GetOSVersion(). For example: print +('3.1','95','NT')[$os_version_info[4]],"\n"; } +There are also Win32::IsWinNT() and Win32::IsWin95(), try C, +and as of libwin32 0.19 (not part of the core Perl distribution) +Win32::GetOSName(). The very portable POSIX::uname() will work too: + + c:\> perl -MPOSIX -we "print join '|', uname" + Windows NT|moonru|5.0|Build 2195 (Service Pack 2)|x86 + Also see: =over 4 @@ -1359,6 +1366,7 @@ in the "OTHER" category include: OS $^O $Config{'archname'} ------------------------------------------ Amiga DOS amigaos m68k-amigos + BeOS beos MPE/iX mpeix PA-RISC1.1 See also: @@ -1391,7 +1399,7 @@ as well as from CPAN. =item * -Plan 9, F +S, F =back @@ -1494,7 +1502,7 @@ in the SYSTEM environment settings. (Cygwin) =item chown LIST -Not implemented. (S, Win32, Plan9, S, VOS) +Not implemented. (S, Win32, S, S, VOS) Does nothing, but won't fail. (Win32) @@ -1502,7 +1510,7 @@ Does nothing, but won't fail. (Win32) =item chroot -Not implemented. (S, Win32, VMS, Plan9, S, VOS, VM/ESA) +Not implemented. (S, Win32, VMS, S, S, VOS, VM/ESA) =item crypt PLAINTEXT,SALT @@ -1513,11 +1521,11 @@ Not implemented. (VOS) =item dbmclose HASH -Not implemented. (VMS, Plan9, VOS) +Not implemented. (VMS, S, VOS) =item dbmopen HASH,DBNAME,MODE -Not implemented. (VMS, Plan9, VOS) +Not implemented. (VMS, S, VOS) =item dump LABEL @@ -1594,7 +1602,7 @@ Not implemented. (S, Win32, VMS, S) =item getnetbyname NAME -Not implemented. (S, Win32, Plan9) +Not implemented. (S, Win32, S) =item getpwuid UID @@ -1608,7 +1616,7 @@ Not implemented. (S, Win32, VMS, S) =item getnetbyaddr ADDR,ADDRTYPE -Not implemented. (S, Win32, Plan9) +Not implemented. (S, Win32, S) =item getprotobynumber NUMBER @@ -1632,31 +1640,31 @@ Not implemented. (S, Win32) =item getnetent -Not implemented. (S, Win32, Plan9) +Not implemented. (S, Win32, S) =item getprotoent -Not implemented. (S, Win32, Plan9) +Not implemented. (S, Win32, S) =item getservent -Not implemented. (Win32, Plan9) +Not implemented. (Win32, S) =item sethostent STAYOPEN -Not implemented. (S, Win32, Plan9, S) +Not implemented. (S, Win32, S, S) =item setnetent STAYOPEN -Not implemented. (S, Win32, Plan9, S) +Not implemented. (S, Win32, S, S) =item setprotoent STAYOPEN -Not implemented. (S, Win32, Plan9, S) +Not implemented. (S, Win32, S, S) =item setservent STAYOPEN -Not implemented. (Plan9, Win32, S) +Not implemented. (S, Win32, S) =item endpwent @@ -1672,19 +1680,19 @@ Not implemented. (S, Win32) =item endnetent -Not implemented. (S, Win32, Plan9) +Not implemented. (S, Win32, S) =item endprotoent -Not implemented. (S, Win32, Plan9) +Not implemented. (S, Win32, S) =item endservent -Not implemented. (Plan9, Win32) +Not implemented. (S, Win32) =item getsockopt SOCKET,LEVEL,OPTNAME -Not implemented. (Plan9) +Not implemented. (S) =item glob EXPR @@ -1744,7 +1752,7 @@ Return values (especially for device and inode) may be bogus. (Win32) =item msgrcv ID,VAR,SIZE,TYPE,FLAGS -Not implemented. (S, Win32, VMS, Plan9, S, VOS) +Not implemented. (S, Win32, VMS, S, S, VOS) =item open FILEHANDLE,EXPR @@ -1802,7 +1810,7 @@ Not implemented. (S, MPE/iX, Win32, S) =item setsockopt SOCKET,LEVEL,OPTNAME,OPTVAL -Not implemented. (Plan9) +Not implemented. (S) =item shmctl ID,CMD,ARG @@ -2061,84 +2069,67 @@ First public release with perl5.005. =head1 Supported Platforms -As of early 2001 (the Perl releases 5.6.1 and 5.7.1), the following -platforms are able to build Perl from the standard source code -distribution available at http://www.cpan.org/src/index.html - - AIX - AmigaOS - Darwin (Mac OS X) - DG/UX - DOS DJGPP 1) - DYNIX/ptx - EPOC R5 - FreeBSD - HP-UX - IRIX - Linux - MachTen - MacOS Classic 2) - NonStop-UX - ReliantUNIX (SINIX) - OpenBSD - OpenVMS (VMS) - OS/2 - OS X - QNX - Solaris - Tru64 UNIX (DEC OSF/1, Digital UNIX) - UNICOS - UNICOS/mk - VOS - Win32/NT/2K 3) +As of June 2002 (the Perl release 5.8.0), the following platforms are +able to build Perl from the standard source code distribution +available at http://www.cpan.org/src/index.html + + AIX + BeOS + Cygwin + DG/UX + DOS DJGPP 1) + DYNIX/ptx + EPOC R5 + FreeBSD + HP-UX + IRIX + Linux + Mac OS Classic + Mac OS X (Darwin) + MPE/iX + NetBSD + NetWare + NonStop-UX + ReliantUNIX (SINIX) + OpenBSD + OpenVMS (VMS) + OS/2 + POSIX-BC (BS2000) + QNX + Solaris + SUPER-UX + Tru64 UNIX (DEC OSF/1, Digital UNIX) + UNICOS + UNICOS/mk + UTS + VOS + Win95/98/ME/2K/XP 2) + WinCE + z/OS (OS/390) + VM/ESA 1) in DOS mode either the DOS or OS/2 ports can be used - 2) Mac OS Classic (pre-X) is almost 5.6.1-ready; building from - the source does work with 5.6.1, but additional MacOS specific - source code is needed for a complete build. See the web - site http://dev.macperl.org/ for more information. - 3) compilers: Borland, Cygwin, Mingw32 EGCS/GCC, VC++ - -The following platforms worked for the previous releases (5.6.0 and 5.7.0), -but we did not manage to test these in time for the 5.7.1 release. -There is a very good chance that these will work fine with the 5.7.1. - - DomainOS - Hurd - LynxOS - MinGW - MPE/iX - NetBSD - PowerMAX - SCO SV - SunOS - SVR4 - Unixware - Windows 3.1 - Windows 95 - Windows 98 - Windows Me - -The following platform worked for the 5.005_03 major release but not -for 5.6.0. Standardization on UTF-8 as the internal string -representation in 5.6.0 and 5.6.1 introduced incompatibilities in this -EBCDIC platform. While Perl 5.7.1 will build on this platform some -regression tests may fail and the C pragma typically -introduces text handling errors. - - OS/390 1) - - 1) previously known as MVS, about to become z/OS. - -Strongly related to the OS/390 platform by also being EBCDIC-based -mainframe platforms are the following platforms: - - POSIX-BC (BS2000) - VM/ESA - -These are also expected to work, albeit with no UTF-8 support, under 5.6.1 -for the same reasons as OS/390. Contact the mailing list perl-mvs@perl.org -for more details. + 2) compilers: Borland, MinGW (GCC), VC6 + +The following platforms worked with the previous releases (5.6 and +5.7), but we did not manage either to fix or to test these in time +for the 5.8.0 release. There is a very good chance that many of these +will work fine with the 5.8.0. The only one known for certain to be +broken for 5.8.0 is the AmigaOS (for which 5.6.1 and 5.7.2 can be used) + + AmigaOS + BSD/OS + DomainOS + Hurd + LynxOS + MachTen + PowerMAX + PowerUX + SCO SV + SunOS 4 + SVR4 + Unixware + Windows 3.1 The following platforms have been known to build Perl from source in the past (5.005_03 and earlier), but we haven't been able to verify @@ -2148,63 +2139,53 @@ active champion on these platforms--or both. They used to work, though, so go ahead and try compiling them, and let perlbug@perl.org of any trouble. - 3b1 - A/UX - BeOS - BSD/OS - ConvexOS - CX/UX - DC/OSx - DDE SMES - DOS EMX - Dynix - EP/IX - ESIX - FPS - GENIX - Greenhills - ISC - MachTen 68k - MiNT - MPC - NEWS-OS - NextSTEP - OpenSTEP - Opus - Plan 9 - PowerUX - RISC/os - SCO ODT/OSR - Stellar - SVR2 - TI1500 - TitanOS - Ultrix - Unisys Dynix - Unixware - UTS - -Support for the following platform is planned for a future Perl release: - - Netware + 3b1 + A/UX + ConvexOS + CX/UX + DC/OSx + DDE SMES + DOS EMX + Dynix + EP/IX + ESIX + FPS + GENIX + Greenhills + ISC + MachTen 68k + MiNT + MPC + NEWS-OS + NextSTEP + OpenSTEP + Opus + Plan 9 + RISC/os + SCO ODT/OSR + Stellar + SVR2 + TI1500 + TitanOS + Ultrix + Unisys Dynix The following platforms have their own source code distributions and binaries available via http://www.cpan.org/ports/ - Perl release + Perl release - Netware 5.003_07 - OS/400 5.005_02 - Tandem Guardian 5.004 + OS/400 5.005_02 + Tandem Guardian 5.004 The following platforms have only binaries available via http://www.cpan.org/ports/index.html : - Perl release + Perl release - Acorn RISCOS 5.005_02 - AOS 5.002 - LynxOS 5.004_02 + Acorn RISCOS 5.005_02 + 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, @@ -2213,12 +2194,13 @@ http://www.cpan.org/ports/index.html for binary distributions. =head1 SEE ALSO -L, L, L, L, L, -L, L, L, L, L, L, -L, L, L, L, L, -L, L, L, L, L, -L, L, L, L, -L, L, L, L, and L. +L, L, L, L, L, +L, L, L, L, L, +L, L, L, L, L, +L, L, L, L, +L, L, L, L, L, +L, L, L, L, +L, L, L, and L. =head1 AUTHORS / CONTRIBUTORS