From: Jarkko Hietaniemi Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 21:08:53 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Update AVAILABILITY. X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=fb533e5b8667f34403ef727e00f2b73b82975dff;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git Update AVAILABILITY. p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@5497 --- diff --git a/pod/perl.pod b/pod/perl.pod index 7e940ad..662dccf 100644 --- a/pod/perl.pod +++ b/pod/perl.pod @@ -224,52 +224,120 @@ Okay, that's I enough hype. 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) +As of early March 2000 (the Perl release 5.6.0), 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 + DOS DJGPP 1) + FreeBSD + HP-UX + IRIX + Linux + MachTen + MPE/iX + NetBSD + OpenBSD + OS/2 + Rhapsody/Darwin 2) + Solaris + Tru64 UNIX 3) + UNICOS + UNICOS/mk + VMS + VOS + Windows 3.1 1) + Windows 95 1) 4) + 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 + 2) NEW in 5.6.0: the BSD/NeXT-based UNIX of Mac OS X + 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 +The following platforms worked for the previous major release, +5.005_04 being the latest (as of March 2000) maintenance release, but +we didn't manage to test these in time for the 5.6.0 release of Perl. +There is a very good chance that these will work just fine with 5.6.0. + + A/UX + BeOS + BSD/OS + DG/UX + DYNIX/ptx + DomainOS + Hurd + NextSTEP + OpenSTEP + PowerMAX + QNX + SCO ODT/OSR + SunOS + SVR4 + Ultrix + +The following platform worked for the previous major release, 5.005_04 +being the latest (as of early March 2000) maintenance release of that, +but unfortunately the Unicode changes in 5.6.0 broke the port. This +will be fixed in a future Perl release. + + OS390 1) + + 1) Previously known as MVS, or OpenEdition MVS. + +Strongly related to the OS390 platform by also being EBCDIC-based +mainframe platforms are the + + BS2000 + VM/ESA + +platforms. They are related by not working in 5.6.0, unfortunately. +Contact the mailing list perl-mvs@perl.org for more details. + +MacOS (Classic, pre-X) is kind of 5.6.0-ready: building from the +source does work with the 5.6.0, but you need more than just the Perl +5.6 source code. Contact the mailing list macperl-porters@macperl.org +for more more information. + +The following platforms have been known to build Perl from source in +the past, 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 + AmigaOS + ConvexOS + CX/UX + DC/OSx + DDE SMES + DOS EMX + Dynix + EP/IX + ESIX + FPS + GENIX + Greenhills + ISC + MachTen 68k + MiNT + MPC + NEWS-OS + Opus + Plan 9 + PowerUX + RISC/os + Stellar + SVR2 + TI1500 + TitanOS + Unisys Dynix + Unixware + +Support for the following platform is planned for a future Perl release. + 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. @@ -277,7 +345,6 @@ 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