perl5.001 patch.1d

perl5.001 patch.1d

This is my patch  patch.1d  for perl5.001.   A complete description is
given below, but here are the basic changes.

    1.  Linux:  more tweaks so dynamic loading works under ELF
        or (maybe) under dld.  There are so many different dld versions
        and so many different tool sets, it's hard to be more specific.
    2.  perl -e '$v=1e19+0' no longer dumps core on Intel x86
        processors.
    3.  pod stuff:
        a.  Wrapped pod2* translators in a 'SH' wrapper so that they
            have the proper path to perl at the top.
        b.  Fixed pod/ Makefile to call the pod2html translator
            correctly.  (Why do pod2man and pod2html work differently?)
        c.  Include latest (Feb 2, 1995) version of pod2html, fresh from
            ftp.metronet.com.
    4.  MakeMaker 4.093.
    5.  GIMME and installperl patches from Tim Bunce.
    6.  Miscellaneous hint file updates.

Configure
    Allow ' ' to mean 'none' in a few more places.  This provides
    a way for hint files to set something to an empty value and to
    ensure that the empty value will be maintained when config.sh is
    reused.

    Fix silly ld typo that prevented hint file from actually setting
    $ld.

MANIFEST
    Now has pod/pod2*.SH.

Makefile.SH
    Remove old libperl.a instead of blindly adding to it.  Failure to
    do this causes a problem if you originally used perl's malloc but
    later changed your mind.  The old malloc.o would still be in
    libperl.a

ext/DynaLoader/dl_dlopen.xs
    Use strerror(errno) instead of dlerror for NetBSD.

handy.h
    Clarify & rework HAS_BOOL comments and code.  No functionality is
    changed, but I hope this is easier to follow.

hints/freebsd.sh
hints/isc.sh
hints/linux.sh
hints/netbsd.sh
hints/next_3_0.sh
hints/next_3_2.sh
hints/sco_3.sh
    Miscellaneous updates.  See the individual comments in the patches.

installperl
    Run ranlib on installed .a libraries.
    unlink() old versions of files before installing new ones, in
    case the old ones are are write-protected.

lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm
    Updated to 4.092 by Andreas Koenig.  This features better
    selection of shared library versions and shorter command lines for
    static linking of new extensions.  It is also more robust against
    broken csh on Linux.  (There's still a glob in the library
    selection loop, however.)

    I further updated it to 4.093 because I didn't like the
    distclean target :-).  It's just a sloppy quick fix, but that's
    all I have time for now.  I've also worked on the library version
    selection stuff and the $(CC) command stuff a little more.

lib/TieHash.pm
    Overdue removal of ambiguous ${pack} construction.

perl.h
    New U_V macro to cast to the UV type (usually unsigned long).

pod/Makefile
    Updated.

pod/pod2html.SH
    Updated.
    Converted to 'SH' wrapper so correct #!/path/to/perl gets used.

pod/pod2latex.SH
pod/pod2man.SH
    Converted to 'SH' wrapper so correct #!/path/to/perl gets used.

pp_hot.c
    GIMME patch from Tim Bunce.

pp_sys.c
    Allow use of F_FREESP fcntl() directive to truncate files.

    If HAS_MKDIR is not defined, the stat() call to check the result
    of the system "mkdir" call was failing because the filename
    pointer no longer pointed to the right location.

sv.c
    Protect some (UV) casts by the new U_V() macro.

util.c
    New cast_uv() function to support the U_V() macro, if needed.
    cast_iv() and cast_uv() no longer assume 32-bit longs.
    The various cast_() functions have also been simplified.